Everyone @ As If Productions wrote:

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>> I am also eating a lot of butternut and acorn squash, which helps me
>> overcome the potato/pasta loss.
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>
> I don't know about acorn squash, but you go easy on that butternut, 
> it's a definite trade-off.  Great source of potassium (which is always 
> appreciated on a high-protein diet), but you're looking at 90% simple 
> carbs and 6g of sugar == a high glycemic load.  And people tend to put 
> sugar on butternut squash, while the potato gets salt.  Health-wise, 
> you'd be better off eating the potato (88% carbs and 2g sugar).


I think butternut squash isn't such a bad deal.  It's more watery than a 
potato, so its carb content per serving is less.  A cup of butternut is 
only about 16g of carbs, of which 2g are sugars.  A cup of potato is 
about 25g of carbs, 1g of which is sugar.  (Source: USDA, values for one 
cup=140g).  It's definitely a bad idea to put sugar on the squash 
though.  The Wikipedia has an interesting entry on squashes, including 
the detail, which I never knew before, that the term "squash" comes from 
a Narragansett Indian word meaning "green thing eaten raw."

Todd