Reading food labels has to be part of your grocery shopping life. Ingredients are listed most to least. Make sure the #1 ingredient is a whole food!
Carbs sneak their way into our foods and can prevent getting – and staying – in ketosis. Unless you are insulin-resistant we are focusing on keeping your NET grams of carbohydrates under 20 per day. Net grams of carbs are calculated by taking the total carbohydrates and subtracting the total fiber.
To find the net grams of carbohydrates a food has, use this simple formula:
Total Carbohydrates – Dietary Fiber = Net Carb