By the way, one of the reasons I don’t carb count either—just generally rather than specifically to this week—is I know myself well enough to recognise use the first thing I’d do with a 60 carb limit is have a burrito in a flour tortilla and not eat anything else nutritious as I’d already exceeded my limit for the day.
Who wants to eat like that? It’s disordered.
I roughly know carb content of many items as I’ve had to check whilst getting to know foods and aiming to purchase the lower carb brands, eg DeLouis, because I know I will use a lot of it to up my glorious fat content. Same with milk—and yes it’s unsweetened almond that’s the lowest I believe—if I’m going to use it many times a day in a cup of tea I want to be sure I’m getting only 2.5g rather than 4.5 per 100g.
I also have checked carb counts on veg but really don’t have to with the traffic light system in the spreadsheet tab.
I learn it, I file it, I do NOT eat a tomato and think ooh there goes another X amount of carbs. I simply think okay that’s on the Red zone but I’m fine because I’m not eating an all singing all dancing plate full of tomatoes, I’ve actually just added one to a salad.
Is this making any sense to counting calories and carbs? It’s fine to have the information, it’s not good to count. (Unless sometimes when near a goal weight but that’s a different story and by that time your body will be so accustomed to the rhythm and benefits of LCHF and IF and gallons of water and the glory of healthy fats and no love of sugar that it won’t be more than an adjustment here or there).
61lbs down in three years with bootcamp, 20-30lbs to go. Haven’t decided on my goal weight yet. 