Live-It questions

[swedieris]

I am having an Orientation this week. I always get the same questions about the exchanges, especially since the food pyramid changed in 2005.

1. We are now told to eat 3 dairy exchanges every day and Kay told me once that we can apply dairy to meat exchanges because we still get the benefit of the dairy product. But how do we record that on our CR? We don't want to subtract from both dairy and meat, correct? If we did this, we would shortchange ourselves on calories.

2. On the Live-It DVD, peanut butter is shown as 2 tsp = 1 fat exchange. In the book, however, 1 tsp = 1 fat exchange. Is this a typo?

These kinds of things have continually confused my group members who don't understand the discrepencies. Is the written and/or the Orientation material in the process of being updated? There seem to be changes that confuse people, including myself and I have been doing this for nearly 5 years!

thanks
~Chris in Hart

[mc01234]

Chris, per my "Official Pocket Guide to Diabetic Exchanges" by the ADA, 1 TBSP is one High Fat Meat for the peanut butter. It can also be exchanged as a fat. It is like cottage cheese. Fit it on your CR where you need it to make sense for that day.

With regards to the New Food Pyramid, I view it as a reorganization of the nutrients for a day. I told my group that either the First Place listings of the new Food Pyramid would be okay. Remember, the object of the Live-IT is to eat in a healthy way. I reiterate these are goals to strive to attain. Any change in our eating is positive movement.

I'm so glad you are choosing to continue to lead. A dear friend of mine is co-leading with me now and I am much more positive myself. Do stop by if you are in town. We are moving the meetings to Tuesday nights this fall.

Love, Leslie in Glen Ellyn IL

[Lindab]

Chris, I'm not sure about the milk counting as a meat except to say that if you counted it as a meat you would not count it as a milk.

When I called 1st Place about the peanut butter I was told that 1 1/2 tsp. is 1 fat. Molly Gee rounded up to 2 tsp. and the Live-It rounded down to 1 tsp. I usually go with the Live-It and count 1 tsp. as a fat. To count it as a meat you need 1 Tablespoon in order to have all the protein you need. Then you would count it as a meat and a fat (see the bottom of page 57).

I know there are confusing and contradictory things here and there. I have found that they have fixed some of the mistakes in the Members Guide. I hope this helped.

Linda