Carb counting

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Registered: 01-06-2001
Carb counting
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Tue, 04-29-2008 - 1:47pm

Does anyone here just carb count?  I have been doing that for a while now and been doing so well that they may be taking me off the Metformin.


A couple places to look up foods, www.calorieking.com 


A good place to put ingredients in to figure out nutritional information  http://recipes.sparkpeople.com/home.asp  free to join, they have a recipe calculator.

 

Avatar for cl_coldfingers
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Registered: 03-19-2003
In reply to: pdljmpr
Tue, 04-29-2008 - 3:01pm

I just do carbs.


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Registered: 01-06-2001
In reply to: pdljmpr
Tue, 04-29-2008 - 3:54pm

Yea I know it is harder to count just carbs but when you follow what works it really does work.

 

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Registered: 03-19-2003
In reply to: pdljmpr
Tue, 04-29-2008 - 4:33pm

I knew I couldn't count food exchanges.


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Registered: 03-25-2003
In reply to: pdljmpr
Wed, 04-30-2008 - 1:46am
I carb count and I was amazed at how liberating it was. I am able to take the ingredients of a recipe and figure out how many carbs are in each serving. When I was first diagnosed I asked the dietitian to teach me how to do this. I just use the packages of the ingredients. I never use the web to find out the amounts.I usually make my own meals from scratch because of my