Carb counting honesty

[Kaylz]

When totting up your meals do you honestly trust the information on the packet or do you often add 1g or whatever on, I'm guilty of adding on x

 

[Ditto]

I try not to eat anything in a packet. They're bound to have mucked about with it and added salt and sugar and rubbish. I eat plain stuff, the more natural the better. What gets me with packets is they give you info for a certain amount rather than the package. I do like to eat cottage cheese which is 250g with not much added rubbish, but they give the info for 100g. Gets on my nerves. 😉 Plus doing the low carb I'm only supposed to count net carbs. Agh, I can't add up, it's very difficult.

 

[Robin]

When totting up your meals do you honestly trust the information on the packet or do you often add 1g or whatever on, I'm guilty of adding on x

I'm always rounding up or down, it all usually balances itself out in the end. Say I was eating something that had 38 carbs in it, or 42, I'd just treat each as 40 to make the maths easier.

 

[Robin]

I try not to eat anything in a packet. They're bound to have mucked about with it and added salt and sugar and rubbish. I eat plain stuff, the more natural the better. What gets me with packets is they give you info for a certain amount rather than the package. I do like to eat cottage cheese which is 250g with not much added rubbish, but they give the info for 100g. Gets on my nerves. 😉 Plus doing the low carb I'm only supposed to count net carbs. Agh, I can't add up, it's very difficult.

When you say net carbs, are you following an American plan where the carb figure includes the fibre? Food info in the Uk has the fibre already deducted from the carb figure, so you don't need to bother,

 

[trophywench]

I mostly trust the info Kaylz - although I do have to say that most medium sliced bread says whatever, always over 15g a slice. However in my body if I inject enough to deal with 17.4g or whatever it says - then I'll go low - and because it's usually 2 slices for a sandwich - that makes the difference between OK and hypo. Therefore for bread, I only allow 15g a slice because it seems to be the ONLY food I regularly eat, that does this. The only way to find out is test isn't it. There isn't enough of a difference to adjust my carb ratio - but there again you have to test and observe over a period to see what your body does.

Plus of course no complete meals and a lot of other stuff I eat doesn't come out of a packet - so it's all a bit of a mixture of some packet and some guesstimate in my case. Eg dinner today - roast chicken, Paxo stuffing, creamed spuds and cabbage, plus gravy. So I eyeballed the spuds, say near enough 40, plus the stuffing plus the gravy, called it 45g and that was that. I was 5 at 7.57pm, meter adjusted the dose to 4.15u, now at 10.27pm I'm 5.7 - possibly a tad low for 2.5 hours - but we'll see.

 

[john pardo]

I do take note of how much carbs and if to many i look for an alternative.

 

[Kaylz]

I try not to eat anything in a packet. They're bound to have mucked about with it and added salt and sugar and rubbish. I eat plain stuff, the more natural the better. What gets me with packets is they give you info for a certain amount rather than the package. I do like to eat cottage cheese which is 250g with not much added rubbish, but they give the info for 100g. Gets on my nerves. 😉 Plus doing the low carb I'm only supposed to count net carbs. Agh, I can't add up, it's very difficult.

I meant veg packets etc, I'm not a ready meal person and cottage cheese is minging haha and quite alot of sugar considering you mentioned you'd not be having hellmanns mayo due to the tiny amount of sugar in it x

 

[grovesy]

I meant veg packets etc, I'm not a ready meal person and cottage cheese is minging haha and quite alot of sugar considering you mentioned you'd not be having hellmanns mayo due to the tiny amount of sugar in it x

I think I
I think Cottage cheese is tasteless, I like my cheese strong.

 

[Kaylz]

I think I
I think Cottage cheese is tasteless, I like my cheese strong.

Extra mature cheddar lass here, cant stand this mild cheddar cr*p and that's all the local corner shop used to sell, luckily they now have extra mature so don't have to buy a few packets when I'm in the other town lol x

 

[Ditto]

2.7 g of sugar per 100 grams of cottage cheese. Hmmm I didn't realise that. I luvs it. Plus I'm still having dollops of mayo. My bloods seem okay anyways...

 

[novorapidboi26]

I trust it completely....

I use the app myfitnesspal for all my counting needs...works great...

you want to eliminate as many variables as you can when carb counting/dose adjusting.....

 

[Kaylz]

I trust it completely....

I use the app myfitnesspal for all my counting needs...works great...

you want to eliminate as many variables as you can when carb counting/dose adjusting.....

My fitness pal isn't always right though there's some things on there that says x amount of sugar yet 0g carbs x

 

[novorapidboi26]

My fitness pal isn't always right though there's some things on there that says x amount of sugar yet 0g carbs x

True, common sense prevails though as you know a certain item has carbs and so you know that particular entry isn't complete.....its useful for identifying the amount of carbs as opposed to whether or not there present....