I recently went through two very difficult deaths in my family. I stopped LCing but now that I am trying to pull my life back together I would like to start again. I decided to go with the Atkins nutritional plan. I feel that Atkins is something I can follow for life. But I am so confused as to exactly what I subtract and what I count in the "net" carbs. The ladies that I work with are on the South Beach Diet and one of them is on the Carb Addicts Diet, they have told me that I am suppose to subtract the sugar alcohols and the fiber from the total carbohydrate...is this true? that would mean that a russell stovers sugar free peppermant pattie only has about one gram of carbs in it. I am confused. I've read so many different books can someone tell me how i am suppose to figure out exactly how many carbs are in something?