Calories and Carbs

Hello everyone!

I've recently been looking to shed a little weight I've put on since starting college. I've been watching what I eat for the past 2 and a half months and i've lost about 14 pounds eating nothing but eggs, fish, chicken, and beef along with fruits and vegetables every other day or so.

Along with keeping my carb intake to a minimum, Ive also started to count my calories intake to try to start a deficit in my diet. I read the back of everything I eat now and make sure to keep a mental log of how many calories vs how many carbs it is but it came to attention today that, in a single carb there are 4 calories. Is this included in the Calories header of everyday foods? Or would I need to calculate it by adding the calories plus the carbs x 4 plus the other parts of it that hide calories? Pretty much my question is, is the calories number that I see on all foods an accurate description of the total amount of calories in a food, or do I actually need to calculate how many calories are also in the fat, carbs, etc. and THEN add that to the calories heading I see to get the proper estimate of how many calories I'm taking in.