Weight-Loss Pancakes
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their main ingredients are flour, milk and sugar...
their main ingredients are flour, milk and sugar...
Oh ok. Thanks.
Just a thought...if you have decided that you are trying to count your carb grams, unless you buy a pre-packaged mixture with all the nutritional info on the package, or make something like pancakes yourself where you control the ingredients...any estimate you make is going to be way off: the carbs (as well as the calories) are going to depend on whether the milk is skim, 2% or whole, whether the flour is whole wheat or white, whether or not sugar is added to the batter (can be optional), and the size of the pancake.
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Just fyg, I have homemade white flour (wish they were wheat flour but it's the husband's family recipe) blueberry pancakes once a week. I stressed about it at first, but my weight hasn't gone up from eating them. As long as I stick to two or three, use only a tablespoon of real maple syrup, no butter, and have fruit with the serving, I can work it into my total calories for the day.
They are so good... I don't see why they couldn't be fit into your diet - perhaps by sacrificing another food from another meal during that week?
They are so good... I don't see why they couldn't be fit into your diet - perhaps by sacrificing another food from another meal during that week?
Ahh, so true. You're a wise one Steven.
Ok. But people here and other forums claim Atkins is a bad idea because you put all the weight back on when you reintroduce carbs.
Must be BS then.
People also claim that they can't lose weight for the life of them when they are accounting for every single calorie that hits their stomach.
If this is true, science is wrong.
People say a lot of things.
However, reintroduction of carbs will certainly lead to some weight regain as some energy substrates are replenished and water retention increases.
All the weight back though? Nah, highly doubt it.
EasyE,
I have personally known quite a few people who "did Atkins", lost weight, starting eating carbs again and regained the weight, plus some, fairly rapidly. And the one thing they had in common was they did not count their calories either during Atkins or after...so rather than dealing with the basic fact that they went from eating at a calorie deficit to eating at a surplus, they all say the same thing "When I went off Atkins I gained a lot of weight eating carbs." And yes, it's b.s.
Look at it this way, a single biscuit at my favorite restaurant is 180 calories. If I were doing Atkins I would eat some eggs, some bacon and maybe some cheese for breakfast. Now say I decide to go off Atkins and I eat those same eggs, bacon and cheese, but I add that biscuit...and of course it needs a little butter and jelly. Say I toss in a small glass of o.j. I've just added about 300 calories to that single meal...but I'm not counting calories so I don't realize it. Then, instead of a tuna salad on romaine for lunch, since I'm not "doing Atkins" anymore, I add 2 slices of bread and make it a sandwich. There goes another 100 extra cals. And, since I'm no longer restricting my carbs, instead of grilled chicken and broccoli for dinner, I decide to add a small bowl of pasta - or have my chicken fried or covered in bar-b-que sauce instead of grilled...then I go for dessert, but instead of a small bowl of blueberries, I opt for a small wedge of cake, or a couple of cookies....seemingly small additions of carbs during the day, but adding up to nearly 1000 additional calories. How long do you think it's going to take for me to start gaining weight again? And it it the fact that I've "reintroduced carbs" or the fact that I'm now simply eating more food - of any type - than I'm burning off?
I'm not trying to be a smartass here....I "did" Atkins - to the letter of the book - I reintroduced carbs - I continued to lose weight at the exact same rate - because I was counting calories and maintained the same deficit.
If this whole carb counting thing is working for you, I'm not trying to say "do or don't do"....I'm just saying it's based on psuedo-science and has nothing to do with weight loss.
I have personally known quite a few people who "did Atkins", lost weight, starting eating carbs again and regained the weight, plus some, fairly rapidly. And the one thing they had in common was they did not count their calories either during Atkins or after...so rather than dealing with the basic fact that they went from eating at a calorie deficit to eating at a surplus, they all say the same thing "When I went off Atkins I gained a lot of weight eating carbs." And yes, it's b.s.
Look at it this way, a single biscuit at my favorite restaurant is 180 calories. If I were doing Atkins I would eat some eggs, some bacon and maybe some cheese for breakfast. Now say I decide to go off Atkins and I eat those same eggs, bacon and cheese, but I add that biscuit...and of course it needs a little butter and jelly. Say I toss in a small glass of o.j. I've just added about 300 calories to that single meal...but I'm not counting calories so I don't realize it. Then, instead of a tuna salad on romaine for lunch, since I'm not "doing Atkins" anymore, I add 2 slices of bread and make it a sandwich. There goes another 100 extra cals. And, since I'm no longer restricting my carbs, instead of grilled chicken and broccoli for dinner, I decide to add a small bowl of pasta - or have my chicken fried or covered in bar-b-que sauce instead of grilled...then I go for dessert, but instead of a small bowl of blueberries, I opt for a small wedge of cake, or a couple of cookies....seemingly small additions of carbs during the day, but adding up to nearly 1000 additional calories. How long do you think it's going to take for me to start gaining weight again? And it it the fact that I've "reintroduced carbs" or the fact that I'm now simply eating more food - of any type - than I'm burning off?
I'm not trying to be a smartass here....I "did" Atkins - to the letter of the book - I reintroduced carbs - I continued to lose weight at the exact same rate - because I was counting calories and maintained the same deficit.
If this whole carb counting thing is working for you, I'm not trying to say "do or don't do"....I'm just saying it's based on psuedo-science and has nothing to do with weight loss.
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Thanks for replying, it makes perfect sense. Maybe if that was explained in the Atkins diet there would have been more long term success stories.
But doesnt going into Ketosis help with the fat loss to? I dont think (might be wrong) that there are proven scientific experiments one way or the other, but i think i remember reading about some test taken on two groups of obese people, and the ones that lost the most weight were the ones who had much less carbs than the other group.