|
1,082 post(s)
|
|
|
|
|
Administator
3,065 post(s)
|
When you're eating as much food as you are and not deep in the pre-contest phase, it's fine. For clients who lose weight slowly, struggle, or just anyone who's very close to the show - I'd not use calorie-containing condiments like this very much if at all. Just hard to be accurate measuring and most of us want to know we've done everything we can to win.
|
|
|
|
605 post(s)
|
Lucas, Parkay makes a zero calorie butter spray.
|
|
|
|
1,862 post(s)
|
Why do you need to use butter, or butter like substances...just get some olive oil spray and be done with it. lol
|
|
|
|
Administator
3,065 post(s)
|
Nothing is zero calorie, KP. Per serving size it may say that, but even label claims can have 20% variance and still be okay by the FDA. Companies can purposely lie up to 20% and be in compliance - and when it comes to marketing for your business, they do lie.
|
|
|
|
1,082 post(s)
|
So does that mean no? Also if nothin is calorie free what about stevia then? It says it is calorie free and carb free??? Lucas |
|
|
|
Administator
3,065 post(s)
|
Correct. A drop of stevia is one thing, 7 packets is another.
|
|
|
|
2,942 post(s)
|
Dr. Joe, may I take this? Lucas, think of it this way: A calorie is a unit of energy defined as: "the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of one gram of water by one degree Celsius." (So you can think of it as the "heat" that it will take to make the water hotter.) A calorometer is the apparatus that measures this heat. So everything Lucas has calories if there is enough of it. A chair has calories if you torch it in a calorometer --it will heat up water. A piece of metal, 1 cheerio, 1 bite of a baby carrot...even YOU have calories. So...if you had a whole heap of stevia and lit it up in a calorometer, do you think there would be heat? Of course! Like Joe just said, If you consume enough stevia, sucralose, aspartame or any of these "no calorie" products, you getting calories...it is a matter of quantity. Per serving it may generate such a negligible amount of heat that the FDA allows the company to say it has "no calories." That's if the serving is 1/32nd of a teaspoon. But all day long? day after day? It adds up. |
|
|
|
Administator
3,065 post(s)
|
I love it when you talk dirty to me, Mary. Can you say "calorometer" one more time - a little slower?
|
|
|
|
1,082 post(s)
|
ahahaha....need tighter posing trunks? My thing is that i am trying to work on recipes with my gf and then make a lil book for you guys. Like is 1 tsp of stevia pretty much neglibile cals not even bother counting? I know they have some cals....just is it easier to ignore them then to try and calculate? Same with Cal free butter |
|
|
|
2,942 post(s)
|
DR. JOE! but we have mixed company! and it's such a dirty word: caaaaaallll-OOOO-ROM-eeeee--ter----shhhhh. (now go take a cold shower.) Lucas - if it's one tsp for your entire recipe, count it as zero and list it in the ingredients. If it's 1 tsp per serving count it as 1 and list it in the ingredients. |
|
|
|
123 post(s)
|
JOE, MARY, Great information.... THANKS LUCAS. Mary .. that vocabulary." it is amazing what you can learn from this forum... and Joe you started it... |
|
|
|
427 post(s)
|
Does this mean all the walden farm products that claim to be calorie free really aren't?  |
|
|
|
Administator
3,065 post(s)
|
Oh, my goodness - Walden Farm products are the scurge of the dieting industry. All the glycerine and sucralose - I'm highly opposed, M.O.T. In very small amounts, those that don't have a problem losing body fat can get away with some, but there's still a cost. Those that struggle to lose, I'd take them out altogether. I think you're safe to have some.
|
|
|
|
427 post(s)
|
Uh oh, been using those for years, had no idea  . Guess, I'll have to scale back a little bit, I thought they were great for saving some carb macros for other things. |
93 post(s),
22 voice(s)
