New and asking ANOTHER question

[Bubby1]

I don’t keep track of sugar grams. I count carbs, carbs from sugar, vegetables, spices, mystery ingredients in foods, etc. I don’t eat straight sugar for any reason, or fruit. (mainly because I don’t care for fruit). But there is sugar in, say, a tomato or a piece of cheese and I eat those but I’m keeping track of carbs for the sake of simplicity.

For the first year I had 20 grams or less in a day. Now I’m experimenting with adding different foods, having fewer meals a day and increasing carbs to somewhere around 40 g a day.

Sugar in cheese. God I didn’t know that. Yet they say it’s ok to eat it. Do you eat raw meat from a packet? There’s no butcher nearby so I have to but some say there’s additives in it.

[PetaMarie]

There’s milk sugar (lactose) in cheese. It’s just in there.

I would have to look at the label on the meat package you’re talking about to tell you if I’d eat it. Can you give me a name so we can google it?

[Bubby1]

Ok it’s Australian grasslands tender cut beef,grass fed beef premium mince. It says pasturefed free range, no added hormones, antibiotic free.

[PetaMarie]

Yup, I would eat that!

[KetoCancerMom]

I kept my carbs down to 6 grams but it said my sugar for the day was 7grams

It could have been a rounding thing. I wouldn’t stress over 1g. Now, if it was a 5g+ difference then I’d take a look to see what is going on.

[Bubby1]

There’s milk sugar (lactose) in cheese. It’s just in there.

I would have to look at the label on the meat package you’re talking about to tell you if I’d eat it. Can you give me a name so we can google it?

Woolwortghs 100% Australian beef. Blade steak boneless. And Australian grasslands tender cut beef grass fed beef premium mince. The mince says pasturefed, free range, no added hormones, antibiotic free

[Bubby1]

I kept my carbs down to 6 grams but it said my sugar for the day was 7grams

It could have been a rounding thing. I wouldn’t stress over 1g. Now, if it was a 5g+ difference then I’d take a look to see what is going on.

I feel so confused it just said 7grams sugar for the whole day with my carbs at about 6 grams. Percentages and maths confuses me. I’ve always been very smart at English and rubbish at arithmetic.

[PetaMarie]

Our US labels give us carbs then breaks them down into sugar and fiber. Net carbs is the total carb minus the fiber.

So if X food has 10 grams of carbs, but 7 grams of sugar and 3 of fiber then if you’re counting net carbs, it’s only 7 grams of carbs. Some people count total carbs, which would be 10

Is it possible your app is doing something like this and that’s why the breakdown is confusing you?

[Bubby1]

Yup, I would eat that!

Then I’ve got Woolworths 100% Australian beef. Blade steak boneless. That’s all it says.

[PetaMarie]

Generally speaking, land animals without anything added to them are zero carbs. Some seafood animals are more carby. Eggs have a negligible amount of carbs (like 0.6 g per egg, depending on size).

[Bubby1]

Our US labels give us carbs then breaks them down into sugar and fiber. Net carbs is the total carb minus the fiber.

So if X food has 10 grams of carbs, but 7 grams of sugar and 3 of fiber then if you’re counting net carbs, it’s only 7 grams of carbs. Some people count total carbs, which would be 10

Is it possible your app is doing something like this and that’s why the breakdown is confusing you?

It counts every thing, net carbs total carbs, sugar, fibre. Maybe that’s what happened.

[PetaMarie]

That makes sense, you’ll get the hang of it, I promise. Just keep reading and practicing and it will click. Six months from now you’ll be surprised you were ever so confused by it!

[Bubby1]

I’m trying to send a photo of the macros on the App but I don’t know how.

[goohsmom]

It’s hard to be in situations like that and eat lunch meat and mayo with a knife and a fork while everyone around you is carbing it up

Sorry, I don’t bother with the knife and fork. If it’s okay to eat food with the fingers when wrapped in bread, why not without the bread? Anyway, my co-workers are used to me skipping the bread most times so don’t really look, they’re more interested if I’m going to give up the chips and cookie.

[Bubby1]

That makes sense, you’ll get the hang of it, I promise. Just keep reading and practicing and it will click. Six months from now you’ll be surprised you were ever so confused by it!

It’s ok, I just looked up all the foods I’ve been eating and in each food there’s hardly any sugar. It must have just been a rounding up thing. Strangely enough it says there’s 2 grams of sugar in eggs.

[PetaMarie]

https://www.google.com/search?q=sugar+in+eggs&rlz=1CAHKDC_enUS830&oq=sugar+in+eggs&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1902j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

If you change it to Raw egg, it’s 0.2 grams of sugar per egg.

[Bubby1]

Maybe if you read some of the struggles I have gone through on my Accountability thread, and a 2.5 month stall from not eating enough calories in the summer, you will see why I encouraged you to get closer to the 2000 calorie mark =). I just want you to succeed for life, with Keto, not just lose weight fast plan, is all. You are still very young, and I don’t want you doing the yoyo cycle that I did from 11-54 -I want to spare you the agony of years of dieting and I was trying to help you be on track eating the Keto way of eating.

Does this look like a big enough lunch?

[Bubby1]

https://www.google.com/search?q=sugar+in+eggs&rlz=1CAHKDC_enUS830&oq=sugar+in+eggs&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.1902j0j9&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

If you change it to Raw egg, it’s 0.2 grams of sugar per egg.

So it’s ok to eat them boiled. I’m so sorry I over analyse things. I just really want to get the hang of this. I feel like an idiot

[PetaMarie]

It’s okay. It’s okay to eat them however you want. ONE gram of carbs is more than either boiled or raw. Raw has zero point two (0.2) grams of carbs. That means you could eat five of them and it would equal 1 gram of carbs.

You could eat two boiled eggs (0.6 grams of carbs) and it would be equal to 1.2 grams of carbs. Honestly, though, I don’t even count egg carbs. But you should while you’re learning it all.

[Bubby1]

Thanks for answering all my questions. It’s like Keto school