How many grams is "low carb"?

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  • neohdiver
    neohdiver Posts: 738 Member
    ailoros1 wrote: »
    I'm a little confused; some people are referring to the number of grams of net carbs, and some people are referring to a percentage of your total calories. Which is better? Or does it matter? For example, if I'm eating 100g net carbs per day, but I'm on a 1,000 calorie a day diet, that's 10% of my diet. I'm wondering if just restricting the number of grams is enough, regardless of total calories, or if it's more beneficial to increase total calories so that the percentage of carbs in my diet is lower. Does that make sense?

    Thanks! :)

    Most people who are watching their carbs limit them to a certain number of grams. Unfortunately, MFP doesn't permit us to set them that way - we have to play with the percentages until they generate the number of carbs we want as a cap.

    There is a discussion about net v. gross, and about how to count sugar alcohols - but the # of carbs v. % of fat is mostly because of how this place is set up.
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