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Plan: LCHF/ketogenic
Stats: 163/132/130
BF:
Progress: 94%
Location: Upstate NY
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Originally Posted by LynnM0305
I see this is an older post, but from reading the 2002 Atkins book, plus a book called The Obesity Code, it sounds like fat and fiber counteract carbs to a certain extent. I mean, you subtract fiber to get net carbs, but no one really says have Metamucil and a fat bomb with that brownie.  But it sure sounds like that would work. |
Not really, Lynn. If you do net carbs, and I have successfullly, you need to look at each ingredient. It works (for some, but not all), because the fibrous carbs in a given food will not be digested. You can't combine different foods. For example, tonight I had broccoli, which had 4 carbs and 2 fiber, so 2 net. Great, because it was one food.
If instead I had bread and flax meal and the flax fiber cancels out the flour, it doesn't work. The point is, some of the carbs in the individual foods are indigestible. |