A question about counting carbs. If I count carbs will I loose weight without counting calories?
Personally I have never counted a Carb in my life, nor a Calorie.
It was pretty obvious to me what foods I had to cut out from a Carbohydrate perspective in order to reduce my BG, and it was also pretty obvious that I had to eat less in order to loose weight.
So I stopped eating Bread, Potatoes, Pasta, Rice Cakes & Biscuits and anything obviously carb laden, and ate mainly meat fish and salad for quite a while and the weight fell off and my BG levels reduced quickly.
I still don't overthink my diet, and my mindset is not focused solely on my T2D or what I can't eat.
For me I needed to change my entire lifestyle for this to work, what I ate, when I ate, how much, my sleep patterns, my exercise a whole raft of things.
I don't want to say it was easy, but in many ways it was because I immediately came to terms with my diagnosis and decided straight away what I needed to change in order to get on top of it and didn't waste any time bemoaning my luck or worrying about what I would miss out on.
I haven't missed out on anything and in the process improved my life immensely.