Total carbs or sugars?????

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posted by vimtogirl
on 26 Feb 2017 at 00:19

Hi, just wondering about counting carbs. Should I be looking at the total carbs, or the carbs from sugars. This will be my second attempt at reversing my T2 (did the Newcastle diet 18 months ago with slim fast, and now realise that there were way too many carbs in that, and may have been responsible for the negative result) and so am wanting to be absolutely sure about all the facts before I try again, hopefully starting March 6th.
Thanks
posted by Esnecca
on 26 Feb 2017 at 00:58

Total carbs. If you’re in the US, the nutritional information will note how much of that is fiber and how much sugar. Fiber can be subtracted from the total carbs, and indeed, in the UK is not counted under carbs at all. Sugar cannot be subtracted and is part of the overall carb count. I like to keep my sugar grams as low as possible, even though they all come from veg, cheese, nuts, or, very rarely, fruit.