I recently started counting calories.
As a type 1 diabetic, I have become quite proficient at counting the carbohydrates in my foods. However, as much as I believe in eating a low-carb diabetes diet, carbohydrates aren't the complete picture of our diets. As I attempt to lose a few pounds, I realized that to make the basic equation: "calories in minus calories out" work for me, I need to know how many calories I'm actually consuming. Thus, after setting up a simple spreadsheet, I started...

