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I started reading Dr Bernstein's book the other day and, if I have understood it correctly, he is saying that it's your net carbs you need to worry about and that this is the carb content of food less the dietary fibre content, so for example 100grams of potato is 17g of carb less 2.2g of dietery fibre, making the net carbs of 100grams of potato 14.8grams.
I have tried doing the very low carb diet for a week but it's too hard. The LCHF diet on here, keeping to less than 120grams per day sounds much more realistic to me but is that carbs or net carbs? I don't want to think that I'm being really good, only to discover that I should be counting carbs and not net carbs.
I have tried doing the very low carb diet for a week but it's too hard. The LCHF diet on here, keeping to less than 120grams per day sounds much more realistic to me but is that carbs or net carbs? I don't want to think that I'm being really good, only to discover that I should be counting carbs and not net carbs.