Hey Rosie. I was taking metamucil pills - 2 or 3 at lunch, dinner and sometimes breakfast (which isn't much. About 1.5 grams, I think) when I started acacia. I'm D. I started taking 1/4 teaspoon in the morning and before dinner (with metamucil at lunch) and worked up to about 1 teaspoon. Not sure how much that is, but I went very gradually and it seemed to work