Re: Re: carbs -- was OT: Life Without Bread

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Jodi

I agree with you on the confusion between various charts of nutritional content of foods. I tend to ignore the specific numbers when it comes to carb content and focus instead on getting a sense of high or medium or low. Actually I tend to follow this practice with most charts, as the numbers can fluctuate.

After all this time on SCD I can usually tell how many carbs (or how much fiber or fat) my body will handle in a day's time. And after doing so much research into nutrition, trying to understand why my digestion and metabolism react in certain ways, I can estimate carb content (or fiber or fat or sugar) fairly accurately. So I tend to try a "new" food that seems like it might be OK for me, then when my body tells me it isn't happy, I go to the charts.

I've also learned that having functional digestive disorders, along with a deteriorating nervous system, means that I have bad days regardless of sticking to the foods that my digestion tolerates best. So sometimes I go to the charts to see why my digestion reacted badly only to learn that I didn't make a mistake on carb content (or something). It is just the way things work these days.

So I don't worry about the numbers. Every once in a while I get curious and check the charts, especially when I am having problems. I keep meaning to go to Fitday.com and figure out my specific daily carb, fiber and fat consumption but haven't gotten around to that yet.

So you can tell I don't focus on the numbers [grin]. I don't count carbs or grams of fat/fiber very often, especially in the past 2 years. I paid more attention to the charts and what the numbers were in my first 3 years on SCD when I was trying to figure out what I could and couldn't tolerate.

Kim M.

SCD 5+ years

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Hi Kim M,I still need to understand this total amount of carbs (72 grams) which they measure in 6 bread units a day. It's supposed to be straight fwd and yet different charts online negate one another yet again about carb content (I have experienced this with Fructose charts and some other chart too)Confusing.Do you actually count the carbs or is it like natural to you now?Jodi