Reaching the Carb limit way too soon!

CC has allotted me 126g of Carbs in order to lose a pound per week.  As I enter my daily food intake, I seem to reach my Carb limit way quicker than my fiber or protein limit.  If I have a med size banana, that's 27g of Carb already!  Many of the fruits and veggies contain carb which gets me to the limit even faster.  How do you handle this?  Should I just eat turkey/chicken meat so that it'll give me protein and a lot less of the carb?  Any advice would be appreciated.  Thanks!

Since when does CC allot carbs?

Sorry, I just joined so I'm probably a bit confused.  I've installed the CalorieKing and Exercise Manager software.  It helps in tracking how many calories I take in each day.  I entered some info. initially.....current weight, height, age and my goal weight.  It calculated that I needed to be on a 1200 cal/day along with how many grams of carb, fat, protein, fiber, etc. I needed on a daily basis.  As I enter my food intakes, it re-calculates what is left of my allotment in each category.  It seems that whatever I eat, the Carb limit is the first one to fill up.  My protein and fiber can be only half way there when my carb is over the limit already.  I hope I'm making sense....

Depending on how you are choosing yor veggies can make a big differnce, instead of a banana you could do watermelon, berries etc.  http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/whattoeat/a/ whatfruit.htm from a google of "low carb fruit" http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/whattoeat/a/ whatveg.htm for low carb veggie  - i am sure there are better lists out there then these, but they were first on my google page )    But also, bananas have lots of good for you stuff in them.  If you ate half a banana with no sugar added peanut butter, instead of a whole one on its own, then your getting a lot of the good stuff with it and it might be more "worth it"

Did you use the CC tools to get your calorie target, to compare? I don't know the software you are talking about, so I can't comment on how good their targets are, but I would say in general when it comes to macronutrients, get above 20% for carbs, fat, protein, and then the rest can be as you choose - but without knowing about those programs, it's possible that they are suggesting you do a low-carb diet, which might not be reasonable for you (it wouldn't be for me).

Based on 1200 Calorie diet that is around 42% Carb, seems kind of low.

UD

A healthy diet (according to CC) contains between 40 and 65% carbohydrates.  If you're choosing the healthier sort.... wholegrains, vegetables, pulses, fruit etc.... rather than the simple starches and sugars that tend to cause problems, and if you stay in your calorie intake target then there's no real 'limit' to carbohydrates.  Enjoy

i focus on my protein. if i get 20-25% protein my carbs seem to stay on track. whey protein shakes at 20-ish g protein each help alot if you just cant eat lots of meat and dairy.

Thank you for your responses.

Penguness, thanks for the link.  I'm sure that it'll come in handy as I pick and choose my daily intakes.

Amethystgirl, yes, I'm using their tool.  I *think* it's their tool since I found it on their website.  I've signed on for the 7 day trial to see if it'll work for me.  So far, so good.

Umneydurak, that's what I thought too.  The funny thing is that what the CalorieKing Nutrition and Exercise Manager tells me to take is different from what (http://nutrition.about.com/od/changeyourdiet/ a/calguide.htm) limits are.  If I plug in my info. under this website, their limits for carbo, fiber, protein, etc. is higher.  I'm assuming that CC is affiliated with nutrition.about.com since it was there I found out about CC.  Shouldn't their limits be the same?

Gi-jane, are you kidding?  No limits to carbo if I ate fruits, vegetables, wholegrains?  I stay within limits of my calorie limit so that would be great.

Kykena, I take soy protein powder (fruit smoothie) for the protein but it doesn't seem to change anything for my carbo limit.  This calorie counting is harder that I had imagined esp. with all the limits to the other stuff.

I didn't see limits on anything on this site. I just watch my calories. That's it. In fact I like CC because it is so easy.

BTW if you are concerned about carbs, look for Aunt Millie's Fiber for Life bread. Whole wheat has only 35 calories per slice and 12 carbs.

CC does not equal calorie king - cc (calorie count) is a free site, so we don't have 7-day trials.