I can substitute an ingredient for one of the fixed ones ad have a pretty close estimate of the effect, My food diary has meal numbers, each meal has approximately 40 net carbs. I have 4 breakfasts, 4 lunches and 6 dinner that I eat +45 weeks a year. Estimating food content will either become instinctive, or you will have a short list that you can refer to, not an encyclopedia of foods.
You will look at new food and compare them to ones you know. That "diet will gradually change and you will become skilled at finding substitutes, one change at a time. You will condition your gut to expect certain size meals at certain times. You will eat more predictable meals of predictable sizes that include what you like to eat and nothing you don’t. If you work to keep your diabetes well managed long enough you will find ways to simplify decisions because its too much work otherwise. If you don’t include enough or include too little fiber, your bathroom visits will too. As a human with type 1, if I didn’t subtract fiber from net carbs,no matter what I used as a insulin to carb ratio, I might as well be guessing.ītw, If you don’t look at added sugars as a percentage of the carbs in a meal, the response you get during the first two hours after you eat will be a surprise. I make decisions that effect my health based on facts and knowledge. Those are “medical opinions”, not facts, but based on anecdotes and faith, like a religion. I don’t care what philosophy a doctor or nutritionist believes in. If fiber is listed as included under “Total carbs”, subtract all if it. Fiber should be shown as an inactive ingredient, as is done for medicine and supplements. Fiber is only under carbohydrates because it is not lipid or protein. They do not understand digestion or how to interpret the nonsense on food labels.
If anybody tells you otherwise, they believe they do not know. Fiber is either soluble or insoluble in the human gut, but it is always indigestible. Unless you consider wood chips and hay as food, you should subtract dietary all fiber from your carb counts. What to do with fiber depends on whether you are a termite, a cow or a human, so you are better off asking this of a vet than an “medical doctor” or a “nutritionist”. Never be afraid to ask questions, to question the answers, because no one knows everything about anything. That’s the kind of question I expect from people who have recently changed to a new “protocol” -exercise, diet and behavior and aren’t sure what to do.
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