Re: Lindt 99% Cocoa
- From: "W. Baker" <wbaker@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:52:47 +0000 (UTC)
Bill Hileman <discgolfdad@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: Wowza... I love chocolate but dang.
: I'd been occaisionally getting their 85% version which is pretty good and
: relatively low-carb. One large bar is less carbs than a much smaller
: Hershey bar, for example (don't have the nutrition list handy but I believe
: it was 20 carbs for the entire bar versus 22 for Hershey's. This 99% cocoa
: is a smaller bar, about half as thick but the same size, and is 13 grams of
: carbs, 6 grams of dietary fiber (didn't notice fiber on the other). The
: 85%, like I mentioned the first time I posted about it was quite a shocker
: at first bite, but then I found myself craving it. This is a bit different.
: As much as I love chocolate (and I was honestly expecting this to turn out
: this way) the 99% is kind of hard to tolerate - quite bitter. I think I'll
: stick with the 85% or thereabouts from now on.
That 99% stuff is probably designed for baking , rather than eating. It
is really just about unpalatable! With the 85% i can eat 2 sqquares and
it is 4 grams total carbs, with 1.5 grs fiber, so actually a net of 2.5
carb grams!
: For those of you who remember me as Frisbee, and wonder how I've been doing,
: I've been reading here every day, just not been much in the mood to post or
: otherwise contribute. Been through a lot of changes in my life recently.
: My employer of 22.5 years informed me mid-way last month that he was going
: to shut down business, so I was frantically looking for a backup plan for
: income. As it turns out, we continued the business with just the founder
: and myself and we're both working out of our homes now. Hopefully things
: will pick back up and I may get an "office" aside from this make-shift one
: in our bedroom again. I applied for VA benefits because of my visual
: handicap and was awarded 20% disability. For those of you familiar, the
: magic number is 30% for major benefits, so I'm a bit disappointed as I was
: led to believe by many that I'd qualify. The money is significantly lower,
: and no health insurance or education benefits for my family, but it's better
: than it was before.
Glad you have something going with the job, even if it is not perfect and
in an office. Just think how valuable an emplyee yu are for the boss to
find a way to keep you oon in these times of reduced business!
: I'm also horribly frustrated with my weight. When I was diagnosed T2 in May
: of 2007, I weight 241 lbs. Within two months I had dropped to 228. I
: slowly started putting it all back on from that point, to now where I'm all
: the way up to 250. I doubt it's the food, since I eat like a bird,
: especially compared to what I used to eat (and maintained my weight no
: matter WHAT I ate), I'm sure it's the fact that I'm not getting exercise.
That is a bummer! Are you continuing to waatch your carb intake? If you
let up on that area, it can really put on, not only bgs, but pounds!
ONe thing that helps me is to amek sure to weigh myself every day so I can
tighten up in the carbs deartment or food quantity department if I go up a
pound In this way it doesn't get ahead of me. This has worked fo rme for
20 years. If you are on meds for depression tht doesn't help either.
: I'll have to address that somehow, but visual impairment and neuropathy try
: to convince me otherwise... sigh. Still depressed, still on Prozac, life
: still sucks, but I go on. Oh yeah, and my Gators are losing in Football and
: Basketball! How much worse could it get?! :-)
You are still here kicking:-)
Write occasinally and don't be a stranger.
Wendy
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