Net Carbs

dehegerty50

Happy weekend everyone! I am wondering....if I go over my carb allowance by 20 grams, does increasing fiber by 20 grams even-out my daily allowance of carbs?

panda4153

So in the sense of counting net carbs yes, but it would be hard to find food that would up your fiber without adding any more carbs. The two usually come together.

cmriverside

...how would you do that?

Why are you trying to stay below a certain number?

Regardless, it does take some practice to get things to line up. Try logging your day's food before you eat it. Then you can tweak things and keep them in line.

autumnblade75

Fiber is a TYPE of carb. You will not find any Negative carb foods. The good news is that it doesn't matter if you go over on carbs, if you at or under your calorie goal.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/carbohydrates/fiber/

lemurcat2

dehegerty50 wrote: »

Happy weekend everyone! I am wondering....if I go over my carb allowance by 20 grams, does increasing fiber by 20 grams even-out my daily allowance of carbs?

No, because if, say, you've eaten 35 g of carbs and 10 g of fiber, the best you can do by adding 20 g of fiber is also adding 20 g of carbs (and that would basically be by adding some fiber supplement). So you'd end up at 55 g of carbs and 30 g of fiber.

There are many countries, unlike the US and Canada, where fiber does not count as a carb, but in those countries you cannot subtract fiber from carbs to get net carbs, as what they call carbs are ALREADY net carbs.

Hope that makes sense.

There are no foods in countries where net carbs = carbs - fiber in which the amount of fiber can exceed the amount of carbs.

lynn_glenmont

panda4153 wrote: »

So in the sense of counting net carbs yes, but it would be hard to find food that would up your fiber without adding any more carbs. The two usually come together.

They come together because fiber is a type of carb.

OP, if you're already 20 grams of carb over, you can't decrease that surplus by consuming more fiber, because the best a food can be is net zero carbs. There's no such thing as a negative carbs food.