My goal is Aug surgery. I need some help. My surgeon has advised a super low carb diet (45 a day) I never realized how many carbs are in veggies! Besides meat having a hard time staying under the suggestion amount, I eat lots of eggs. I started 12 days ago and have lost 13 pounds. I realize is need a new lifestyle and have mostly cut out sugar, all wheat products but I am really wanting veggies!

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You should ask if your surgeon is okay with you going by "net carbs" instead of just total carbs. Net carbs subtract out dietary fiber from the carb total. So if something has 5 carbs, but 2 grams of dietary fiber, the net carbs would only be 3. A lot of the carbs in vegetables come from dietary fiber, so the net carbs should still be fairly low, depending on the type of veggie.

How do you figure out net carbs?

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Sorry didn't mean to hit enter yet,how do you figure out net carbs for veggies? Is there a list of carbs and fiber somewhere?

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@@Alabama sparkles if you track your daily intake on MyfitnessPal or a similar app, you can adjust your tracking to include fiber.

I track fiber because it's good to have in your diet, but my dietitian says NO to using net carbs instead of simple carbs, so be sure to check with your own team before deciding to do that. Some allow it and some don't.

An app like SparkPeople or MyFitnessPal will let you enter in the foods you eat and display all of the macro nutrients in them. From there it's just simple math:

Total Carbs - Dietary Fiber = Net Carbs

I was missing vegetables in the beginning and my Doc let me have them when I increased my exercise. I had to increase the calories to cover some of those expended. I work out 2 hours almost every day. You may want to ask if you could do something similar.