Total carbs and Net carbs with High total carbs but low net carbs

#21

I agree.

But the fibre (that’s the correct spelling my US friend ! ) should not be considered as your carb limit.

There’s a big difference between digestible and fibre that isn’t.

(Chuck) #22

I gave up on counting carbs or calories and I am doing so much better now. I do IF and moderately low carb. From my days of counting carbs and calories for me moderately low is 100 total carbs or less. I also fast an average of 19 hours each day. My lifestyle is simple, eat only real food, no higher processed or refined foods, no fast food, and not artificial sweeteners.

(Mike) #23

I’m 69 so it might be my advanced years but I have to check total carbs. I appear to be very sensitive to carbs. Calories don’t seem to matter at all.

Of course when I paddle 20 miles or ride 50 miles the excessive carbs don’t matter.

But for weight loss on less active days carbs are a roadblock for me.

(Mike) #24

Psyllium husk!

(Chuck) #25

I am 75, I am fine with most carbs as far as tolerating carbs go. I just can’t eat a lot of carbs and keep my weight under control. So I have found my balance with IF and a moderately low carb diet. I can enjoy most real food carb that I like. Vegetables and fruits as long as they are raw or freshly cooked. Processed carbs or so called food is out as is fast food.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #26

Alfred Pennington, the corporate physician at Du Pont in the 1950’s and 1960’s, published a number of case studies of employees who had lost fat on a low-carb, high-fat diet. One of the executives he’d helped was so sensitive to carbohydrates that he’d put fat back on just from eating a single extra apple.

I suspect that today we’d call that severe insulin-resistance.

(Mike) #27

Ohhhhhh. I’ll check into that. I’ve been doing keto for quite a while and just switched to carnivore. Hopefully this will help if I have IR.
Thanks for pointing that out I didn’t realize.
If I had IR wouldn’t my blood glucose be high though? My blood glucose is always between 85 and 100 when I was on the keto diet and even lower now on carnivore. This morning at 6:30 am it was 85 even with dawn effect
But I spent many years eating high carbs.
Mike

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #28

Not necessarily. The late Dr. Joseph Kraft, a noted diabetologist, showed that the insulin response starts to go awry (insulin-resistance) decades before glucose control starts to slip enough to trigger a diagnosis of Type II diabetes. Dr. Kraft called it variously “occult diabetes” and “diabetes in situ.”

Different organs react differently to excessive insulin levels. Insulin-resistance in the liver is manifested as, or is caused by, fatty liver disease. Other internal organs can also develop fat deposits and become insulin-resistant. Insulin-resistance in the brain is Alzheimer’s disease, which some researchers have started calling Type III diabetes, just to make that point. Other neurological and neuromuscular problems are also caused by faulty glucose metabolism in the brain, which is why a keto diet can often help enormously.

The good news is that visceral fat in our internal organs resolves quickly when we drop the glucose, and especially the fructose, in our diet. The brain and the heart both do extremely well on ketones. The body is capable of making what little glucose it actually must have, which is why a carbohydrate-free diet is possible, and why people often do well on carnivore.