Carb Question

Hello everyone,

As a lot of you know, I am trying to really watch my carbs.  I have been enjoying an Atkins bar each day and I wanted to confirm that I only count the net carbs, correct?  The wrapper says there can be up to 18 carbs, but then the net carbs are only between 3-5.

Thanks for the help!

Liz

Hi Liz.  It depends why you are counting them.  If you were on the Atkins diet, I understand you'd only count net carbs.  I've seen other people on this board talking about counting net carbs.

The reason I count carbs is to make sure that I'm following the guidelines I was given.  So I'm aiming for 40% of my daily cals to come from protein, 30 from carbs and 30 from fat.  The nutrition tool I use on this site counts all carbs in that calculation.  If I wanted to manually subtract the fibre from the carbs, I could come up with a net carb count - but I have no reason to at present.  I know that almost all the carbs I'm eating are healthy, complex carbs and the total is around 30% of my daily intake.

I'm sure others who do count net carbs will chime in with their rationales ;-)