These days I piled up on veggies (my system just couldn't tolerate most sugar/salt/fat heavy food in stores). That said I found that 80/20 green/carb is a sweet spot. I'd bet a few dollars that vegetables help your system process the carbs too so it's less an issue than normally (according to the 'too much carbs is bad' trend).

I too regret cheating most of the time.