I am playing with the idea of changing up my diet plan. I have only ever done calorie counting and have lost and maintained a 50 pound weight loss with it. But I no longer wish to count them. I was thinking of a diet exchange plan or WW core. For those of you that do an exchange plan how many exchanges do you use in each group?

It depends. What do you want your break out to be? I like 40-30-30 across the carb-protein-fat.

Here's one calc.

http://riverflag.com/nutrition/diabeticexchange.html

Fine tune it to wherever you need it to be. If you don't know your calorie level, get that here first. http://www.freedieting.com/tools/calorie_calculator.htm

Then fiddle with the exchanges.




HTH!
A.

I was thinking
6 starch
6 meat subs (I am vegitarian)
4 fats
2 milks
3 fruits
3 non starchy vegs

but I am not sure yet.

I am diabetic and my dietician has me on the exchange of:

6-carbs/starches
4-veggies
3-fruit
2-milk
2-fats
4 oz of meat per day

there are free foods too and unlimited sugar free jello

edited to add: diabetic exchange portions are different than what servings on the actual food package states.

I did the exchange diet on my birthday.
I exchanged my diet for the Chinese buffet at Wong's.
But only one day, mind you.