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Nutritional Values of Commonly Used Ketogenic Foods

I’ve had a number of emails and requests from patient’s to locate a source for fat percentages and protein contents of various foods as they prepare and follow a ketogenic lifestyle.  I’ve looked all over, however, nothing easy and concise has made itself readily available, and there hasn’t been a simple one page tool at your fingertips . . .

Hopefully, this list will start to fill that gap.  Use the list to calculate protein and fat levels as needed.  Let me know if I can add to the list or if there are foods you commonly use that I’ve missed.  Keep the ketones up and your waistline down!

Nutritional Values of Common Ketogenic Foods:

Food:                                                                       Protein Contents:                                Fat Contents:

Steak (Ribeye) –                                                      65 grams per 8 oz.                                 49%

Steak (Top or Bottom Round) –                             23 grams per 3 oz.                                  33%

Ground Beef (75% Lean) –                                      22 grams per 3 oz.                                 55%

Pork Chop (boneless) –                                            26 grams per 3 oz.                                15%

Ham –                                                                      17 grams per 3.5 oz.                              12%

Bacon (grilled) –                                                      22 grams per 3.5 oz.                               75%

Sausage (beef) –                                                     14 grams per 3.5 oz.                              79%

Sausage (pork) –                                                     17 grams per 3.5 oz.                              75%

Chicken Breast (boneless, skinless) –                     24 grams per 3 oz.                                  18%

Turkey Breast –                                                       24 grams per 3 oz.                                  15%

Yellowfin Tuna –                                                     25 grams per 3 oz.                                  10%

Light Tuna –                                                             22 grams per 3 oz.                                 8%

Halibut –                                                                  23 grams per 3 oz.                                  19%

Sockeye Salmon –                                                   23 grams per 3 oz.                                  22%

Tilapia –                                                                   21 grams per 3 oz.                                  13%

Deli Meats:

Roast Beef –                                                            18 grams per 3 oz.                                  16%

Canadian bacon –                                                    15 grams per 3 oz.                                  33%

Pepperoni –                                                             18 grams per 3 oz.                                  83%

Roast Turkey Breast –                                             18 grams per 3 oz.                                  15%

Snacks:

Beef Jerky (Jack Links) –                                          13 grams per 1 oz.                                9%

Peanut Butter (Peter Pan Crunchy) –                      8 grams per 2 tbsp.                                76%

Mixed Nuts –                                                           6 grams per 2 oz.                                    79%

Almonds, raw –                                                       6 grams per 1 oz.                                    66%

Walnuts, raw –                                                        4 grams per 1 oz.                                    85%

Sunflower seeds, raw –                                          6 grams per 1 oz.                                    76%

Tofu –                                                                      12 grams per 3 oz.                                  30%

Greek Yogurt –                                                        23 grams per 8 oz.                                  0%

Cheeses:

Swiss Cheese –                                                        24 grams per 3 oz.                                  66%

Cream Cheese –                                                      11 grams per 3.5 oz.                               79%

Ricotta cheese –                                                      10 grams per 3.5 oz.                               63%

Cheddar cheese –                                                    24.6 grams per 3.5 oz.                            74%

Eggs –                                                                      6 grams per 1 large egg                         60%

(Adapted from http://www.caloriecount.com)

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Nutritional Value of Common Foods.

To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals –  that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.  Hopefully, these posts are adding to your stable ideals.

Carb Thoughts

A number of patients come in to the office struggling with loosing weight.  When I review their dietary journals with them, I notice that many of them never stop eating fruit (because, fruit is good for you, right?!).  Well, lets put it this way:

One banana for breakfast is equal to . . .

banana

. . . just over seven (7) teaspoons of sugar.

teaspoon sugar

Count them . . . seven (7) teaspoons.

If your eating a banana for breakfast, it is halting your weight loss for up to 12 hours.  Give the banana’s to the monkeys and cook up some sausage and eggs for breakfast tomorrow.

The Self-Discipline Muscle

Many patients come to my office desiring to loose weight, but complain of no self-control.  They feel they cannot loose weight because they don’t have the willpower.  Willpower, or self-control, is an elusive and mysterious thing. “If only I had more self-control,” I hear people say, “I could . . . ” exercise regularly, eat right, avoid drugs and alcohol, save for retirement, stop procrastinating, achieve a noble goal, or loose weight.  A 2011 American Psychological Association study reveals that almost 30% of those interviewed felt that lack of willpower was the greatest barrier to making a change in any of these areas.

So what is “willpower” or “self-control?” It is the ability to resist short-term temptations in order to fulfill a long-term goal. Image

I meet and work with people every day who feel they have no willpower.  In actuality, will power and self-control are learned behaviors that develop over time.  Anyone can have willpower, you just have to understand how willpower in certain areas can be strengthened and what makes it weak.  In fact, a 2005 study showed that self-discipline or willpower was more important than IQ in academic successes.  This study also found that increased self-discipline lead to less binge eating, higher self-esteem, higher grade point averages, better relationship skills and less alcoholism. Fascinating isn’t it!?

The answer can be found in a quote from Henry P Liddon, “What we do upon some great occasion will probably depend on what we already are; and what we are will be the result of previous years of self-discipline.”  This means that willpower or self-control can be learned or improved.  How, you ask?

First, you must establish and write down a reason or motivation for change.  In addition, that change must fulfill a clear goal. Just wanting to loose weight isn’t good enough.  You have to be motivated because of a consequence that arises from the obesity or overweight.  And, you “loosing weight” isn’t a clear goal.  You must set a weight reduction goal. It has to be clearly written down with your motivational reason.  Willpower or self-control cannot begin to form until these two steps occur.

Second, you must begin to monitor your behavior toward that goal.  When it comes to weight loss, I ask every one of my patient’s to keep a diet journal.  In this journal they are asked to write down every thing they eat and drink.  The night before, they are to write down their plan for tomorrow’s meals, then the next evening, they account for their success or failure by journaling on that same page what they actually ate and drank, then after comparing what they did, they plan for tomorrow and journal why they were successful or why they weren’t.  It’s the last part that is so powerful, a short 3-5 minutes of self-introspection. Self-introspection is the key to behavioral change.  It is the key that allows a person to see their habits and then make very small changes that break bad habits, solidify good habits and strengthens willpower.

Third, willpower is developed over time.  It is developed by being accountable to ones-self on very little things every single day.  But it MUST be written down. If I planned to eat bacon and eggs for breakfast and I didn’t, why?  When I look at my day, I may realize that I went to bed too late to get up early and cook bacon and eggs. So, instead, I ate a yogurt that was in the fridge. I am accountable to myself.  If I plan to eat bacon and eggs tomorrow, I must either go to bed earlier, prepare them the night before, or throw out the yogurt . . . so not to be a temptation again.  This is written down and I make a very small change tomorrow.

kid-musclesOver time, this self-introspection becomes easier and easier, to the point that you do it sub-consciously.  It is this sub-conscious self-introspection and change will be seen by others as self-control or willpower.  Just like a working or strengthening a muscle, recording short goals and and accounting for them makes your self-discipline stronger.  The self-discipline muscle becomes more powerful. In time, a split second decision not to binge on that piece of cake will be seen as strong willpower by those around you. You’ll recognize that it’s just flexing your self-discipline muscle.

So, my next question to you is . . . where’s your diet journal?