How do you all count fiber within the context of your carbohydrate limit?

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harrissilver

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• Jun 27, 2019

• #1

I eat a high fiber diet, and by that nature my carb content may be higher than a lot of yours. If I were to compare my diet to a popular one, I would say Mediterranean for this reason. How do you all feel about that?

 

Rachox

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• Jun 27, 2019

• #2

It depends where in the world you are as the U.K. and Europe count carbs differently to the USA for example. I can never explain it so have a read of this:
https://uk.atkins.com/blog/carb-counting-in-the-uk/

 

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• Jun 27, 2019

• #3

I do not include fibre in my counts as in Australia we follow the UK way of carbs and fibre being separate in food nutrition info.

 

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harrissilver

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• Jun 27, 2019

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Interesting. Maybe now my higher carb diet would lean more towards 'low carb'

Rachox said:

It depends where in the world you are as the U.K. and Europe count carbs differently to the USA for example. I can never explain it so have a read of this:

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wiflib

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• Jun 27, 2019

• #5

The only thing thta's really important is your blood sugar levels in response to what you eat.

 

Resurgam

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• Jun 27, 2019

• #6

The carbs you need to count for sorting out your blood glucose do not include fibre, so high or low fibre diets are pretty immaterial for type two carb control.