Pretty close. Technically there are 9 calories in each gram of fat. To convert the fat grams into calories multiply by 9 but when doing it in your head, 10 is easier. Once you multiply by 9 you have the fat calories. Now this is on labels so you don't have to do the math. The fat calorie percentage of total calories should not exceed 30%. What is hard to know is the fat and calories of something without a label, like a dinner out. Over the years my eyes and stomach can tell me a lot about a meal out. Sometimes it arrives at table all shiny which singles it is too oily. Other times I take a bite and can detect butter. Over the years I have been able to learn to detect small amounts of butter as well as a drug sniffing dog sniffs drugs out. Your mouth and tummy just signal to each other a meal is too fatty somehow! Then I stop eating and go back to bread or plain rice.
-------------------- IBS-A for 20 years with terrible bloating and gas. On the diet since April 2004. Remember this from Heather's information pages:
"You absolutely must eat insoluble fiber foods, and as much as safely possible, but within the IBS dietary guidelines. Treat insoluble fiber foods with suitable caution, and you'll be able to enjoy a wide variety of them, in very healthy quantities, without problem." Please eat IF foods!
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Re: Rice whip
Your mouth and tummy just signal to each other a meal is too fatty somehow! Then I stop eating and go back to bread or plain rice.
