Question about carb....

Mandy R.
on 1/20/12 7:13 am - Callahan, FL

Do you guys count your carbs as net or regular?
Mandy

HW-298 SW-251 Loss/Month post RNY(1)-23.5,(2)-23.3,(3)-9.9,(4)-10.6,(5)-8.9,(6)-7.7,(7)-4.2,(8)-7.5,(9)-1.7,(10)-10.8*first goal reached*,(11)-6,(12)-1.3,(13)-0.3,(14)+2.9-*changed scales that weigh 2lbs heavier*,(15)-0.3(16)-4.7(17),+5.8(18)-1.5,(19)+4.4,(20)-+4,(21)-1.2,(22)+3.5,(23)

Bettisima
on 1/20/12 8:53 am

I count total carbs. Try to keep them at about 75 grams a day

Price S.
on 1/20/12 9:49 am - Mills River, NC

RNY on 09/09/10

I count net, total - fiber. I didn't worry about them the first couple of months but then found I need to cut them back to keep losing consistantly.

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MacMadame
on 1/20/12 2:07 pm - Northern, CA

VSG on 09/24/08

I count Total.

My program discourages using NET and I found their reasons reasonsible. Plus it's easier to count total when you are using a program to track as most (all?) of them don't do net carbs.

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Mandy R.
on 1/21/12 10:41 am - Callahan, FL

RNY on 11/07/11

what were the reasons for counting total, just curious....on MFP you can search for the food with net carbs only

HW-298 SW-251 Loss/Month post RNY(1)-23.5,(2)-23.3,(3)-9.9,(4)-10.6,(5)-8.9,(6)-7.7,(7)-4.2,(8)-7.5,(9)-1.7,(10)-10.8*first goal reached*,(11)-6,(12)-1.3,(13)-0.3,(14)+2.9-*changed scales that weigh 2lbs heavier*,(15)-0.3(16)-4.7(17),+5.8(18)-1.5,(19)+4.4,(20)-+4,(21)-1.2,(22)+3.5,(23)

MacMadame
on 1/21/12 3:38 pm - Northern, CA

VSG on 09/24/08

Well, if you are subtracting sugar alcohols, as some people do (Atkins does this last time looked), then that's wrong because even though sugar alcohols don't have 4 calories per g of carbs, they do have some calories as some gets absorbed.

If you are subtracting fiber, the same thing can be true. Some fibers are more digestable than others and it hasn't .

Finally, their recommendations for number of carbs per day is based on total, not net. IOW, if they had us doing "net", they would lower the recommended number.

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Jack Baby
on 1/20/12 2:41 pm - Sacramento, CA

I count as net. As with the others, I didn't count early out and really don't count today. I just stay away as much as possible. If I do have carbs, they are pretty hard core grain types.

One thought, on the net v "gross" I would keep a million mile distance from sugar alcohols. They just plain were heinous on my system. I ate them one day without realizing it. OM dear G!!!
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Jen

HW: 250
SW: 240
CW: 150
GW: 135

Eliza55
on 1/20/12 3:56 pm - PA

RNY on 08/11/11

I don't count carbs yet - I just keep away.

I also agree to stay away from sugar alcohols. Sometimes I can tolerate them, but many times not. They are worse on my system than sugar. It's a shame that most bariatric vitamin and mineral supplements have those pesky sugar alcohols.

Eliza

Consult:239 SW:217 1mo:195 2mo:182 3mo:169 6mo:139 9mo GOAL CW: +2 from underweight

KathyA999
on 1/21/12 5:47 am, edited 1/21/12 6:23 am

VSG on 08/09/10

I count total carbs. As MacMadame said, online progrms don't typically have a way to back out the fiber. Plus, I don't see why the fiber grams don't count, when the total calories do.

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Mandy R.
on 1/21/12 10:43 am - Callahan, FL

RNY on 11/07/11

Thanks guys, I lost 50 lbs preop tracking my food, so I want to continue to track. I don't think this is dieting it is just being responsible. I am planning on limiting "white carbs" like I did preop. Right now I am doing protein as 50 %, carbs 25%, fat 25%. Does this sound right?

HW-298 SW-251 Loss/Month post RNY(1)-23.5,(2)-23.3,(3)-9.9,(4)-10.6,(5)-8.9,(6)-7.7,(7)-4.2,(8)-7.5,(9)-1.7,(10)-10.8*first goal reached*,(11)-6,(12)-1.3,(13)-0.3,(14)+2.9-*changed scales that weigh 2lbs heavier*,(15)-0.3(16)-4.7(17),+5.8(18)-1.5,(19)+4.4,(20)-+4,(21)-1.2,(22)+3.5,(23)

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