You know that great recipe you make, or you've altered and you have no idea what it's caloric count is. Well, I found a neat new site that can help. Visit: www.nutritiondata.com for a great recipe calculator. 
You have to sign up - but it's free. It's also a little complicated... you have to "build" a pantry before you can put the stuff together for your recipes, but it spits out a proper 'Nutritional Facts' label for your recipe. Including fats, calories, sodium, cholesterol, etc. Just like a normal national food label. You can also add foods not in the database (I had to add the Splenda Brown Sugar blend).
Pretty useful I think. I wanted to know how many calories would be in a "Healthier Strawberry Rhubarb Crisp". Made with fresh fruit and splenda sweeteners. Well, it's a HUGE difference over a normal dessert. I can actually 'afford' to eat this! Yum! And I've got a huge rhubarb plant growing wild in my "garden". Yeah!
Saturday, May 24, 2008
Recipie Calculator
Posted by JenB at 5:50 PM
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Hi there...I found Rosie's site, which led me to yours. I have been considering WLS for a while, about 4 years. My mom had the Open Gastric Bypass about 12 years ago so she's been very supportive. I see first hand some of the issues she's had to deal with so up to know I've been researching the Lap Band as a better alternative. I've changed Insurance 4 times since starting my research and I just finally decided that I would have to do self pay because either the insurance companies don't cover WLS period, or they make you jump through ridiculous hoops and go through a never ending process.
I'm fortunate enough to have family support both emotionally and financially. For the last 6 months we've talking about doing my WLS in Mexico towards the end of the year, maybe in December. I've done plenty of research on different programs in Mexico so I feel pretty confident.
The process has been put on the fast track and just last week I quit my job so we've decided to to the surgery sooner rather then later. By sooner, I mean in 2 weeks. I've also changed my mind from doing the Lap Bad to the Gastric Bypass.
Even though I've been hesitant about the Bypass up until now, it seems that now that the opportunity to have surgery is knocking on my door, I want to do it right. It seems that through researching the Lap Band, it is almost a temporary fix, and one that has to have frequent adjustments. In one article I read you may have up to 8-10 fills in a 2 year span. And the weight loss may only be around 100lbs over a 2 year period. Also, if complications were to arise with the Lap Band it is usually well after surgery.
With the Bypass, you don't have to go back again and again for maintenance, it results in much more substantial weight loss, and if there are complications they usually present themselves during surgery and can be addressed at that time.
I was also told that patients who have the Lap Band, when they plateau after about 2 years, they usually end up proceeding to the bypass. So if the bypass in inevitable, I might as well just get it done in the first place. Right?
I guess I'm just looking for some feedback on some of the research I've done, or some advice or something. I'm 26 years old, 5'8'', between 380-400lbs (haven't gotten on a scale in a while). Even though my choice of surgery has changed and the date has moved up considerably and it will be in another country and I'll be alone when I go, and I'm nervous has heck, I just have the feeling like this is a once in a lifetime opportunity and that I'll be given a 2nd chance at life, and I owe it to myself and my husband and my daughter and my family, and I should take a leap of faith and go for it. I feel like if I say no, or not right now, the opportunity might not be there tomorrow, or next week, or whenever.
I feel like my life up till now has always been about not right now, maybe tomorrow, we'll see, I'll think about it. I feel like I don't have many tomorrows left at the rate I'm going, and that I just need to seize the moment, take the gift that's so generously fallen in my lap, and just have faith that this is the right time and the right choice.
I wish you luck on your journey of weight loss and look forward to any comments you have on mine.
-Suzie
RudynSuzie@Yahoo.com
LOVE the recipe calculator.
Thanks!
I am enjoying your blog.
Best of luck to you.
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