Meats and fish and oils do not have carbs.
everything else has carbs.
I am following a low carb diet.
I try to stay away from simple carbs bread rice sugar potatoes.
and starchy veggies too.
I try to stick to the green leafy.
If I am going to eat a starch. It might be some lentils as they are high fiber.
When you look at a label it will tell you the carbs and the fiber grams.
when counting carbs you get to subtract the fiber carbs from total carbs.
The trick to eating a low carb diet is getting your fiber in so you don't get constipated.
sorry if TMI.
I try to stay away from prepackaged foods and eat as fresh as possible.
I recently discovered that edamame is really high in fiber and protein.
while it may be high in carbs it isn't too bad once you subtract the fiber grams.
even non calorie sweeteners have carbs, they lie and say the are o calories when actually they have 4.
5 calories equals 1 carb.
With atkins they encourage you to use their ddiet drinks and bars.
They sweeten these products with sugar alcohols which do not effect your blood sugars so you subtract them as well leaving you with "net carbs"
Here is an example:
For lunch I had 1 cup of swiss chard cooked is 7 carbs with 4 grams of fiber so leaving a net carb of 3 which is excellent!
1/2 cup of beets had 8 carbs, 2 fiber net=6 carbs. collard greens had 9 with 5 fiber so net 4 carbs and beef had 0 so net carbs for lunch for me was 13. and that is how you count carbs.

For the record, 1 ounce of cheese =1 carb. and 1 ounce of almonds smoked(about 28 nuts) has 5 carbs and 3 fibers so net carbs =2.
So these are good snaking things if you get snacky before bed time.
hope this makes sense to you.

my 2 ounces of drambuie a sweet scotish whiskey has 18 carbs. straight alcohol has 0. my beers that I like have 20-30 carbs for one beer. No wonder I gained all of this weight.
I am trying straight vodka with some sweetener in it.
not horrible.
bizi