Net Carbs or Total Carbs

[mylastchance21 82]

Which do you count?

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[WLSResources/ClothingExch 3,443]

I track total grams of carb and grams of Fiber separately. My Fiber grams are not so high that it's be worth my time to enter all my own data in the tracking system I use. So much easier to go with what's in the database when it applies to my food choices.

[DeeDee63 3]

I track Total carbs

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[OutsideMatchInside 10,166]

Net, net is what the use in Europe. No reason to count fiber.

[hopefulvspgirl 35]

Net carbs for normal days, total when I'm being stricter.

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[#BirdDog 604]

Total

[Bufflehead 6,358]

Total as per my dietitian's orders.

[BettyG 75]

Total carbs versus net cabs *can* be important, but only if you eat a lot of calories, and a lot of carbs, and a lot of fiber. For example, if you have 150 grams of total carbs but 50 grams are fiber, then only 100 grams of carbs are fueling your workout (and impacting blood sugar).

When I was diabetic and eating 2500+ calories a day and getting 45-75 grams of fiber a day, counting net carbs was important in accurately controlling my blood sugar.

But post bariatric surgery, calories are more like 800-1200 and number of carbs and fiber will be so much smaller that it's not really worth calculating net carbs. And blood sugars are not so problematic.

So unless you are doing huge amounts of cardio and need lots of carbs to fuel that, you probably don't need to bother with net carbs. :-)

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[blizair09 3,250]

I take total carbs minus fiber. I keep my carbs below 20 per day, and those come from 3 oz of green Beans, 8 oz of cottage cheese, and 2 T of sugar-free strawberry preserves over the course of the day.

[Lucky2Lose 184]

Net

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[suzzzzz 1,005]

Net carbs for me.

[2ndSpring 350]

I prefer to use net carbs since my goal is just to stay low-carb for weight loss and appetite suppression. People with other goals may have different tracking needs.