Nutrition Plan Values for Carbs, Pros, Fats, etc.

[wcatlett]

In reviewing the meal plan requirements, each of the nutritional categories is assigned a value. For example, my Breakfast meal plan has the following values: Carbs = 2; Pros = 2; Fats = 0, Fruits = 1; Sweets = 0; Veges = 0. Can you please tell me what these values represent? At first, I was thinking the values were grams, but that seems way off the mark as they would be too low. Is it just some sort of in-house index developed by TrimDownClub for the purpose of menu creation, or does it translate to something else? I’d like to crack the code so that I can read food or beverage labels and understand how such foods or beverages might fit into my TrimDownClub target values.

[Ossie-Sharon]

Hi, wcatlett. The values are exchanges, not grams. They are based on those published by the American Diabetes Association, and can be translated as follows:
Carb = approximately 15 grams of carbohydrate + up to 3 grams of protein
Protein = approximately 7 grams of protein + up to 5 grams of fat
Fat = approximately 5 grams of fat
Fruit = approximately 15 grams of carbohydrate
Vegetable = approximately 5 grams of carbohydrate + 2 gams of protein
Sweet = 15- grams of carbohydrate + 5 grams of fat
Free = up to 5 grams of carbohydrate or up to 3 grams of protein or up to 2 grams of fat.
The following are lists of how common foods fit into the system: http://www.trimdownclub.com/exchanges-lists.

[UrbanFireFly]

Very helpful.

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