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How many carbs per day ??

GDA is currently: men 300g, women 230g, children 220g. It is under review so may change. You say you are retired, so you will probably need less
 
I prefer to eat about 30g to 50g carb daily; I don't tolerate carbohydrate well. Other forum members can happily eat as many as 150g daily, but I don't think many of us go much above that level unless we use insulin. On insulin you can adjust the dose to compensate for the amount of carbs.

If I ate the NHS RDA of carbs (230g for women) I'd weigh about 30 stone and my blood glucose levels would go through the roof. As I said, I don't tolerate carbohydrate well, so I don't eat much; why feed my body stuff it can't handle?

Viv 8)
 
I manage between 50g - 100g per day, I'd like to eat less but just can't find an alternative to a sandwich in my pack lunch and some krisprolls at 10am also in pack lunch.... But when I have recently had a salad pack lunch bg was awesome, so my task for this weekend is to find an alternative :) I'm not entertaining salad for lunch everyday:) I work to hard


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EllisB said:
GDA is currently: men 300g, women 230g, children 220g. It is under review so may change.
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Note that these work out at 66.7% (2/3) for adults and 70.1% children.
The numbers also allow for up to 120g, 90g & 85g (26-27%) to be "sugars".

If you allow for "saccharification", hydrolysis of polysaccharides (including disaccharides), then you end up with: 326-333g sugar for men, 250-256g of sugar for women and 240-244g of sugar for children. (Which is 1800, 1400 & 1300 mmol... )
 
As little as I can get away with, but I am currently taking 225mg of Topirmate daily 125mg in the morning and 100mg of an evening to help with my migraines and to control my ME so daily it can vary. But my lowest is 20mg of carbohydrates.
 
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