grant

With regard to counting your carbs for a given meal, do you include the carbohydrate counts from vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower, etc.) in the meal or not worry about them at all?

Or just count the carbs after fiber? and include the count in your overall macro for that meal?

and what about items that may have a higher sugar content such as onions or even tomatoes?

Thanks.

Emma-Leigh

It depends on the amount you are eating, what type of diet you are following and what type of vegetables you are eating.

Most people do not count them at all ('free foods') - because the quantites they are eating are not high enough to be significant in the grand scheme of things (these are the green, fibrous vegetables like broccoli, brussel sprouts, cauli etc).

I also know people who eat as much as they want, but count it using a generic 'add on 100 cals to my daily totals' type system. They usually only start counting after they have hit a certain total (once they get over about 4 cups a day they will use the generic 'x calorie' thing).

Either way - people are more likely to count if they are cutting.

In terms of tomato (really a fruit) and onions and other things - I know people who don't count and people who do. But if they do count it will be the things such as carrots, tomato, onion, beets and sometimes green beans...

Basically - if you don't want to count. Don't. If you start to have problems then, assuming the rest of your diet/training/cardio is correct you might then POSSIBLY turn to your non-counting of vegetables as the reason....