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Hiya,

Just wondering if anyone can answer this for me? I have been low carbing for a while now and been doing pretty okay with it. I'm sticking to around 50g a day and seeing results........if I cheat a bit, then its okay as I don't put weight on, so I guess I have found that eating maybe 70G doesn't actually put weight back on me!

anyhow..................since I have been talking about low carbing to friends at work a few of them have jumped on the Atkins band wagon...........they seem to like the induction phase (20G) to kick start the weight loss. The thing that is now confusing me is that Atkins works on Net Carbs ( Carbs- fibre) is this right? If so.............am I meant to be looking at the net carbs even if its not really Atkins I'm doing???

This net carb thing is kinda confusing me, mind you it doesn't take much lol

Short bread x :D
 
Re: Helo once again!

Hi there

I've been a bit confused too, but think the logic is that as fibre passes through you and doesn't actually enter the bloodstream, although it is made of carbohydrate you don't count it as it doesn't actually enter the body from your digestive system therefore can't affect your bg's.

It's quite good really as i was counting total carbs, but this means I can have more carbs :P
 
Re: Helo once again!

Hi Shortbread,

Its the net carbs (i.e. the carbs excluding fibre) that raise your blood sugar so all low-carb diets are based on net carbs. There is always confusion between the US and europe because our rules about labelling insist that the carb count is net carbs, with the fibre shown separately. In the US the rules say that carbs must be the whole figure including fibre! So when Americans pick up an imported item in their supermarkets and see carbs = 6g and fibre = 5g, they think great this has only 1g of carb, when in fact it has 6g. If it was a US product it would be labelled carb = 11g, fibre = 5g, so the amount of carbs that will affect your BS (net carbs) = 6g.
 
Hi thanks for that information.

I get what the net carbs are.............but I guess im still being a little thick here lol


SO if im wanting to eat a lowish carb diet of around 50-60G a day............ living in the Uk I would look at the carbs and then deduct the fibre and that is the figure I count towards my daily allowance??


Or have I got that totally wrong??
 
The carb figure included in the labelling on foods produced here is already nett carbs, so no calculation required.

Regards, Tubs.
 
Shortbread said:
living in the Uk I would look at the carbs and then deduct the fibre and that is the figure I count towards my daily allowance??

Or have I got that totally wrong??
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You've got it wrong. In the UK you don't need to deduct fibre - it has already been deducted for you.
 
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