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What are your carb % aka, how do YOU low carb?

Mrsmac247

Mrsmac247

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Type of diabetes
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I finally got around to using myfitness pal today and after inputting my days meals had a shoc to find that instead of the 30g I thought I was consuming, it was more like 39-40g a day. I really dont think i could go lower and this is maybe still low for me.

So my questions are:

1. What percentages of food are you eating e.g % of carbs, %fat and %protein

2. How many grams of carbs are you eating each day? are you strict with your intake? do you measure or do you guess?

Thnk you all, looking forward to your resonses:)
 
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Have to be honest I don't know my carb to fat to protein ratio or how many carbs I consume per day! My carbiest meal of the day is probably breakfast when I have hot oat cereal and oatmeal when I'm at work or eggs on seeded toast when I'm home. I eat a lot of salads, meat, fish, cheese and veggies but also have potatoes and reheated pasta occasionally. I'm still losing weight and, depending on the time of day, my BS is usually between 4.8 and 5.6 pre meals.
 
I'm much the same as @Daphne917 except I don't have pasta and only a few new potatoes occasionally. I just eat what I think is low carb, add fat if I think I need to and try to remember not to eat a lot of protein at once, but I don't measure anything. I am about 3kg underweight. My measure of success is simply if I feel well, which I mostly do.
 
Like @Daphne917 and @DeejayR I'm not an avid food measurer/calculator. I try to eat a varied low carb high(er) fat diet, and have cut out all sugary or starchy carby foods, except for mainly above ground vegetables and small portions of fruit, mainly berries.

After an initial learning curve of checking nutritional information, I've always "guestimated", but also still make sure any processed foods (e.g. sausages, beefburgers) on our shopping list are suitably low carb.
I currently aim for around 30 or so grams of carbs a day, but allow for 30-50 grams, eat plenty of fats and fatty foods, adding a bit more fat if I get hungry, and am currently watching portion size for my protein as I believe I've been having a bit too much.

I still need to lose a fair bit of weight, but my glucose levels are generally pretty stable though slightly higher than I'd wish (fasting and pre meal within type 2 recommended levels, and happily post meal levels are mainly well within normal range) , and I've been more or less in ketosis since i started low carbing, so assume I must be doing something right! :D

Robbity
 
The last time I measured my food (everything down to the gram) was 9 January 2015. During that last week of macronutrient counting it was on average per day: 6% carbs (48g), 70% fat (189g), and 24% protein (148g) and 2567 calories.

Since then I haven't bothered to weigh my food, but that's probably around what I eat now more or less. Maybe a bit more since I'm exercising more.
 
very interesting answers and this is why i posted the question. i am suprised to see 70% fat on a couple of replies. This is why i am enjoying this forum, there are so many helpful people :)
 
Mrsmac247 said:
very interesting answers and this is why i posted the question. i am suprised to see 70% fat on a couple of replies. This is why i am enjoying this forum, there are so many helpful people :)
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Don't forget the grams to % ratio will vary accordingly to the total cals per day and that not all the foods have been verified so worth checking that (green tick).

Btw does anyone know how to delete foods on your app or do you have to go to the main website?
 
Mrsmac247 said:
I finally got around to using myfitness pal today and after inputting my days meals had a shoc to find that instead of the 40g I thought I was consuming, it was more like 39-40g a day. I really dont think i could go lower and this is maybe still low for me.

So my questions are:

1. What percentages of food are you eating e.g % of carbs, %fat and %protein

2. How many grams of carbs are you eating each day? are you strict with your intake? do you measure or do you guess?

Thnk you all, looking forward to your resonses:)
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Instead of 40g, it was 39-40g? You are shocked by 1g difference, or is that a typo? I mean 1g difference must fall within a standard deviation, mustn't it? It is actually impossible in practice to be that accurate about carb counting.
 
Baruney said:
Don't forget the grams to % ratio will vary accordingly to the total cals per day and that not all the foods have been verified so worth checking that (green tick).

Btw does anyone know how to delete foods on your app or do you have to go to the main website?
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On my iPad, I sort of swipe the food to the left and then a red delete button appears on the right. That may work for you.
 
RuthW said:
Instead of 40g, it was 39-40g? You are shocked by 1g difference, or is that a typo? I mean 1g difference must fall within a standard deviation, mustn't it? It is actually impossible in practice to be that accurate about carb counting.
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no I meant that I thought I was consuming 30 or under, before.I started to log it and check
 
I have 10% carbs, 20% protein and 70%fat. I'm having 1400cals per day as I'm trying to shed some weight I gained. I am strict with the carbs which come from veg/nuts/berries, but I occasionally go over in the fats.
 
How on earth do you get so much fat into the diet? For instance, today I'm having/had several cups of tea with full fat milk, two beef burgers with a slice of cheese and broccoliflower cheese and garlic butter chicken. I will have to read up on increasing fat!
 
It takes a little getting used to. I eat lots of mackerel, avocados, Brazil nuts, wallnuts, I use cream in coffee, butter, olive oil and peanut butter! I manage with ease to get it all in over the day!
 
Remember that it is 80% in calories of fat, not grammes of fat.

Makes it much easier!

I try to keep the carbs low, the protein normal, and then fill up on things like mayo, butter, cream, oil, to prevent hunger.
 
Mrsmac247 said:
How on earth do you get so much fat into the diet? For instance, today I'm having/had several cups of tea with full fat milk, two beef burgers with a slice of cheese and broccoliflower cheese and garlic butter chicken. I will have to read up on increasing fat!
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It's easy: swap milk for double cream, add another slice of cheese and some mayo to the burgers, extra cream or cream cheese with the broccoli, and 2 Tbs butter with your chicken. It adds up! As Brunneria said, it's the percentage by calories, not by weight or volume - and fats have double the calories of carbs and protein.
 
Brunneria said:
Remember that it is 80% in calories of fat, not grammes of fat.
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And that per gram of fat you get 9 calories as opposed to 4 calories per gram of Protein and Carb.

So you don't need to eat huge amounts to hit calorie targets.
 
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