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Type 2 EASY WAY TO CHECK CARB INTAKE

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Type of diabetes
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Can anyone suggest a good book or app for checking carbs ( some i have seen seem to focus on weight loss )
i am trying to find the simplest one to monitor daily carb intake.
 
Lots of people recommend the "carbs and cals" app (although I have never used it)
I tend to rely on a spreadsheet and supermarket websites.
If you go for as few carbs as possible you might get away with not counting it at all?
 
There's fitness pal or my fatsecret. You do have to input your food but they aren't bad. Soon after you get pretty used to how many carbs are in food.
 
dawnmc said:
There's fitness pal or my fatsecret. You do have to input your food but they aren't bad. Soon after you get pretty used to how many carbs are in food.
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I use MyFitnessPal. I have to double check the carbs sometimes as they can be in US measurements, and are sometimes wrong.
 
I use Nutrachek which has a British foods database (and is UK based etc). It is very good and only with brand new products does it occasionally let me down. The drawback is it is a paid app.

I like it because I can input recipes which it stores, and I find that very useful indeed.

I also like that it's on my phone and laptop and they synch.
 
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Spreadsheet and packaging information works for me.
 
I use the Carb Manager App on my phone. The scan feature for food nutrition data is an absolute god send....saves so much time! Before this I used to calculate in my head, but once I started putting in data, I soon realised I had been seriously underestimating my total amount of carbs I had consumed
 
I found the Carbs and Cals book with its visual approach very useful at the start. Like others I now use supermarket nutrition guides which are supposed to be correct legally rather than websites and apps that get their information from the public and other unreliable sources.
 
Mr_Pot said:
I found the Carbs and Cals book with its visual approach very useful at the start. Like others I now use supermarket nutrition guides which are supposed to be correct legally rather than websites and apps that get their information from the public and other unreliable sources.
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I also use both...all food labels and the app I mentioned above to calculate my daily intake.
As long as data is double checked against one another, one has a better understanding of how quickly carbs can add up.
The app I use can also instantly tell be if certain foods are keto friendly by adjusting the portion size.
 
I use the Fat Secret Australia website, I did use their app for awhile till it got updated and changed everything thing for the worse.

I also use my online food stores nutrition info details for most of the products we get.
 
In the early days it was the info on a packet or I googled. Now I don’t eat them so no need to count anything.
 
I’m way to lazy to count stuff, I just eat.

I’m not sure what benefit you get from knowing how of something you’ve eaten unless you need to medicate to compensate.

I know the Fitbit app has a function where you can enter your food intake if you have that, or my fitness pal.
 
wiflib said:
In the early days it was the info on a packet or I googled. Now I don’t eat them so no need to count anything.
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Snap. No need to count something you’re not eating. To me, counting carbs always felt like I was negotiating with food. And losing.
 
I use Nutrachek, just the free version to find any carb content not on a packet or supermarket website, then enter it on my spreadsheets.
 
I simply cut down on all high carb stuff initially, and since then for anything else have used Google, online supermarket nutritional information and/or packaging if relevant. I know roughly what and how much of it I should eat,but don't actually worry over a daily intake figure, and generally rely on my meter to tell me how my glucose levels are doing, or my scales if I want to lose more weight.

I did use online logging software for a short time, but didn't find it was really worth the additional time and effort involved. Like @Mr Pot I'd not use apps, etc, which tend to rely on user iinput.

Robbity
 
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