100 NCP = 100g of the Sum of Net Carbs and Protein.
It’s working well for me. I eat low carb and don’t have a problem generally with carbs, it’s the excess protein that gets me. (Since excess protein is converted to sugar but takes longer to do so – via gluconeogenesis)
So now I eat a diet of no more than 100 grams of combination of Net Carbs and Protein, which I simply call NCP.
I figure my body only utilizes/needs about 50g of protein and I easily get more than that every day without counting, due to ketogenic diet. So I don’t need to look at anything else at all. Not calories, nor each individual macronutrient. Just the sum of Net Carbs and Protein.
If I go over 100 NCP my blood sugar worsens and I feel more hungry. Especially when I get over 125 NCP.
Since I’ve been eating 100 NCP this past week, my blood glucose has been dramatically improving, waking with fasting blood glucose of 86 mg/dL lately. I’ve already cut insulin dose down by 60%. (8 units Tresiba per day instead of 20). I imagine in a few days I might be able to eliminate the Tresiba altogether and hope to maintain blood glucose below 100 mg/dL with Metformin alone. I’d ideally like to be in the 80-90 range all day. I’ve lost 7.3 lbs in past 6 days eating 100-105 NCP.
If I eat up my 100 NCP early in the day, then the remainder of the day becomes an intermittent fast. Often I eat most of my 100 NCP by afternoon, so I eat relatively lightly in the evening as a result. I usually only have a small amount of NCP left in the evening and I am selective whether it be coffee, pecans or some fat bomb type of treat.
Here’s my chart for past week:
EDIT: I usually eat around 20g Net Carbs per day along with 85g of protein. (All macronutrients are tracked each day in MyNetDiary.) Again I eat so little carbs I don’t need to consider them individually (they usually come with veggies and raspberries or whatever else and are the slower digesting type as well). And I don’t need to consider protein individually because I get way more than enough. So yeah that’s why I just need to look at one number, NCP. Also, I don’t care about how much fat I consume and don’t even bother looking at fat grams or calories… so my calories varies between 1300-1700 per day depending on how many grams of fat I eat. Fat grams number is totally useless to me lol as it doesn’t increase blood sugar, insulin nor weight.
(Just got an Apple Watch Series 4 and going to work on getting the NCP number on the corner of the watch coding a “complication” in Swift. It will read it from Apple Health database which MyNetDiary writes to. So when I enter food in MyNetDiary I don’t even have to look at the macronutrient breakdown summing net carbs and protein manually each time, I just look at the NCP number instantly updated on the corner of my watch. So when I think I am hungry and have the fridge opened looking at all the goodies, I can take a quick glance at my watch and eat accordingly.)