Whenever I make a big food change (which I have done several times over the years) I get strict with weighing and counting. This gives me a sense of what works, so I can take off the training wheels and just ride

Like last year at this time, I went very strict on both carbs and the kinds of foods I was eating. I tracked with an app called Carb Manager. This is free, and can be upgraded for access to recipes and tips.

I used the free setting for three months and that taught me my new rules.

One of the things I loved about it was the feature where I could scan something in the grocery store and it would show me the macros, and put all the info in my app for later. It also had an extensive food list I could just search for.

With that and a good food scale, I knew what was going on for ingredients and portion size. If I had a flare of my autoimmune, I could look back and see exactly what I had eaten.

Don't guess. KNOW.