Very yes, me too. I do also sometimes have a higher carb day such as I’ll eat beans or lentils, or nuts etc, that can push it over 50g. So it is still useful to monitor it, and play around with foods, and not necessarily eat all the higher carb things together on one day. And of course, if you’re like me and exceed 800 cals regularly, then it’s even more important as you don’t have that self-imposed limit of low calories=lower carbs.
Remember fibre too- fibre shows on carbs totals on mfp etc, and in food labels. They divide carbs into ‘sugars’ and ‘fibre’ and some low carbers don’t count fibre as carbs (it’s called net carbs) as it’s indigestible. You should be getting around 14g per 1000 cals. If you have a day where your carb total seems really high, do check how much of it is fibre.
Maybe when trying to achieve that 30g carbs target you could aim for 30g net carbs, not total? I find that encourages me to eat more fibre and choose better veg.
The whole diet can become a bit like a scientific experiment with little molecules of all the different elements, and by the time you have got the carbs right, not too much or too little protein, the right veg, enough fruit to prevent scurvy (!) but not too much, full fat dairy, enough good fats, and all under 800 calories, you can find yourself thinking ‘yeah but what do I actually eat?????!!!!!’
Just ran 7km, my furthest yet. Clearly fuelled by last night’s Milky Way.