How many grams of carbs do you eat in a day?

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Dave_Z1a said:
About 60g per day. Max 10 at breakfast, Max 15 at Lunch, Max 25 at dinner plus snacks.
Keep my up and down readings on my meter in a band roughly the same as a "normal" person between 4 and 7.8 max and max 7.8 2 hrs after a meal although don't bother testing after breakfast. Averaging between 5.6 - 5.8 mmol/L. over the weeks.
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Hi dave, why do you not bother testing after bfast? I'm trying to sort my levels out at the mo myself, have found Rice spikes the most
 
wass71 said:
Hi dave, why do you not bother testing after bfast? I'm trying to sort my levels out at the mo myself, have found Rice spikes the most
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If people tend to have the same thing for breakfast and have tested to see if it is OK then there is no real need to test that meal again. The same is the case for other meals and people only test something new as they have built up a repertoire of meals they tolerate.
 
Leadinglights said:
If people tend to have the same thing for breakfast and have tested to see if it is OK then there is no real need to test that meal again. The same is the case for other meals and people only test something new as they have built up a repertoire of meals they tolerate.
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Not totally true, I personally don't get the same results eating the same every time, and at the same times.
 
Leadinglights said:
If people tend to have the same thing for breakfast and have tested to see if it is OK then there is no real need to test that meal again. The same is the case for other meals and people only test something new as they have built up a repertoire of meals they tolerate.
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Thanks dave
 
Dave_Z1a said:
About 60g per day. Max 10 at breakfast, Max 15 at Lunch, Max 25 at dinner plus snacks.
Keep my up and down readings on my meter in a band roughly the same as a "normal" person between 4 and 7.8 max and max 7.8 2 hrs after a meal although don't bother testing after breakfast. Averaging between 5.6 - 5.8 mmol/L. over the weeks.
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me too 60g is my aim every day and with livlife bread and 1 or 2 finn crisp I can even have a crunch in my diet.
 
bear in mind i'm a type of t1. I think it's a bit different for t2 there's more going on.

In general, the easiest thing for me is to avoid white foods and cereals. It's just easier. The rest, I'll calculate from the weight, generally just counting the most proportionally carby things. In terms of grams carb per day, it varies a lot. If I wake up on the low side, I'll have a bacon butty for breakfast (so about 15g carb on home-made brown bread). But breakfasts for me are usually 0-carb, and I don't eat till the early evening. But if most of the carb isn't in my dinner, I'll have a sweet, this evening it was eves pudding and custard, about 90g carb right there. So for today, about 120g carb

At a guess I'd say 50-200g carb per day.
 
grovesy said:
Not totally true, I personally don't get the same results eating the same every time, and at the same times.
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yeah. it's unreasonable to expect a broken mechanism to work in a predictable way.
 
Inka said:
It varies as I’m Type 1. I usually eat 150-200g carbs per day, but occasionally more and very rarely less.
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That's good to hear as I usually eat between 130 to 180g carbs, sometimes more as well but not that often, can't seem to eat less as I love food now. Think now I have that part pretty much under control need to start looking at what carbs I eat as I thought carbs are just carbs.
 
void said:
bear in mind i'm a type of t1. I think it's a bit different for t2 there's more going on.

In general, the easiest thing for me is to avoid white foods and cereals. It's just easier. The rest, I'll calculate from the weight, generally just counting the most proportionally carby things. In terms of grams carb per day, it varies a lot. If I wake up on the low side, I'll have a bacon butty for breakfast (so about 15g carb on home-made brown bread). But breakfasts for me are usually 0-carb, and I don't eat till the early evening. But if most of the carb isn't in my dinner, I'll have a sweet, this evening it was eves pudding and custard, about 90g carb right there. So for today, about 120g carb

At a guess I'd say 50-200g carb per day.
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I am going through a big learning curve at the moment as I was diagnosed with LADA around 3 months ago, and carbs are a huge part of this curve. Found it difficult to eat properly for years and now am picking my way through finding the right insulin and not knowing how my body reacts to certain foods and I think that is what I should look at as well. Is this correct? I am working my way through Bertie online as I do not think I will ever have enough information if it helps me makes better choices to keep me healthy. I do believe I was blessed with a good sense of humour which has got me through many difficult times as well.
 
Fwiw, I eat about 200g per day.
 
I tested between 50gm and 130gm a day and settled on 90gm +-15gm. I get a good variety so am not bored. But I cut right back on bread, potatoes, rice and pasta, switching to soybean pasta, cauliflower rice, bread less than 10gm a slice, max 2 new potatoes. I still measure everything daily.
 
donerg said:
I am going through a big learning curve at the moment as I was diagnosed with LADA around 3 months ago, and carbs are a huge part of this curve. Found it difficult to eat properly for years and now am picking my way through finding the right insulin and not knowing how my body reacts to certain foods and I think that is what I should look at as well. Is this correct? I am working my way through Bertie online as I do not think I will ever have enough information if it helps me makes better choices to keep me healthy. I do believe I was blessed with a good sense of humour which has got me through many difficult times as well.
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Picking through all the information is a minefield as people will have different amounts of carbs per day depending on how they manage their diabetes, diet only, oral meds, different insulins and regimes so you really have to do lots of experimenting to find what works for you and you will gain the confidence to make those decisions. Often it is very much trial and hopefully, not too much error.
 
Exactly @Leadinglights Anyone reading this thread should check the diabetes type the poster has. Type 1s can eat a pretty normal diet so will often eat more carbs than a Type 2. Some Type 1s eat 300g plus carbs a day but that might be far too many for a Type 2.
 
I think it also depends if trying to lose weight as part of the diabetes management. I'm trying to limit carbs for that reason and from the forum have found it more helpful than calorie counting. I vary from 90 - 140 depending on many things!
 
Thank you I have been losing weight without trying for such a long time and have only just started putting it back on again. I think I was put off a bit by a scary looking dietician who talked about moving my carbs about at a later date. This was back in July and still waiting. Do not feel so worried about the amount of carbs I am eating now.
 
donerg said:
I am going through a big learning curve at the moment as I was diagnosed with LADA around 3 months ago, and carbs are a huge part of this curve. Found it difficult to eat properly for years and now am picking my way through finding the right insulin and not knowing how my body reacts to certain foods and I think that is what I should look at as well. Is this correct? I am working my way through Bertie online as I do not think I will ever have enough information if it helps me makes better choices to keep me healthy. I do believe I was blessed with a good sense of humour which has got me through many difficult times as well.
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You'll probably find it useful as I have having a reference for g carb in common foods.

The definitive guide for grams carbs per 100g foodstuff for the UK can be found on part of the uk gov website at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid it's the "McCance and Widdowson's composition of foods integrated dataset". Make sure to read the user guide first and be sure to read tab 1.1 "Notes" on the spreadsheet

I loaded a copy of the spreadsheet locally then stripped out the superfluous information like trace elements that kind of thing, leaving me with 1 column of food name and a corresponding column of grams carb. Then saved that as pdf and sent it to my phone. So it's easily searched for foods right when I'm scanning a reading before a meal.

It's easier and more portable than relying on a live website or app that might need to communicate via mobile internet for example.
 
Dave_Z1a said:
I also eat pretty much as I used to do just substituting potatoes with 1 carb a slice bread or a 3 carb roll and rice with cauliflower rice. Don't eat pasta, swapped cereal with toast, avocados, protein yoghurts, full english breakfast or many types of eggs on toast. Eat more nuts, special crispy flat bread biscuits 0 carb made with pumpkin seeds and stuff with variety of toppings, if I have cheese I can tolerate branstone pickle with it as well, yum! Home made soups are good with a bread roll. Baked a few things with almond flour. Top tip, Lidl protein choc moose pudding, which I have half at a time is really really nice if you can find them before they get snapped up, job to keep my daughter from pigging them. All this I learnt through testing with my meter, been a godsend. Takes a few months to build up a picture of what I can and can't eat, now I can remember it quite easily. Can still have most currys, some chineese and lager beer so not too disappointed! The big problem is eating out on the hoof, not easy so I carry a bread roll with me if I am lunching out, get a few funny looks but all the burger vans have got to know me.
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Hello! You sound like you have a really good diet. Can I ask where do you get the 0g carb crispy flat breads? I’m really stuck when it comes to meals etc. especially when I need a carb snack. Thank you
 
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