offboard reply: cool site for nutrient values and dumb question

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I'm not sure about the site you're talking about, but I find

www.fitday.com <http://www.fitday.com/> to be much easier. It

automatically tells you how much fat, carbs and protein you eat in a

pretty little pie chart at the top of the web page. Add a food, say how

much you ate, and voila! Your personal graph appears. It's awesome.

There's another service like it that gives more detailed info about the

food, but I like fitday because you can put in your exercise, it helps

with calories burned and you can even track your weight.

This will take the confusion out as you were asking below. And no,

coconut oil is not special as far as calories are concerned. Every gram

of fat, no matter what kind has 9 calories.

Fitday is also cool because it's easy to sign up and easy to stick with

adding your food. It's even got stuff like fish oil and cod liver oil.

And if the numbers don't match exactly with what's on the label, you can

customize the food!!

Good luck,

Re: cool site for nutrient values and dumb question

I've started keeping a detailed food journal accounting for grams of

fat,

carb and protein as well as calories. I found nutrition.gov has a great

database for foods with a great search engine. It looks like you can

access

the info off the web and also download the software.

Now for the dumb question: I'm shooting for ratios based on Metabolic

Typing

(for me that is 40% protein, 30% fat and 30% carbs but i will probably

do a

little lower carb and higher fat) but i've forgotten how to compute

ratios

of fats, carbs and proteins. I multiply the number of calories per gram

then

take that from my total calories? I remember fat is 9 calories per gram

but

isn't it different for VCO? What are the calories per gram for proteins

and

carbs? It's been a long time since i've been on a diet as you can see.

TIA, Elaine