Starting low carb eating again, anybody want to join me?

smudgley · 07-07-2007, 01:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Donna

I am more for the simpler meals too Smudgley!! No time for baking and never have half the ingredients!!

Your 20g of carbs is for the whole day and all your food counts in this.

But how do I know how much carb is in a sausage from the butcher? Or chicken? burgers with cheese & onions ---- now your talking.... Yum yum!

Mags · 07-07-2007, 01:55 PM

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Originally Posted by smudgley

But how do I know how much carb is in a sausage from the butcher? Or chicken? burgers with cheese & onions ---- now your talking.... Yum yum!

Smudgley, here is a link to a carb 'counter', there would be too many pages to print out I expect, so maybe you could bookmark it and then you'd have it on hand to check those good and bad carbs!

http://www.lowfatlifestyle.com/stats...oodstats_a.htm

EmmaG · 07-07-2007, 05:12 PM

Pure meat has no carbs is is all protein and fat.

Sounds as if you are doing very well Smudgley, as Donna said the 20g carb is for the full day for all of your meals. The carbs you will be counting if you have meat will mainly be in the veg and perhaps any milk you have, and any odd things like Donna and me have peanuts which are roughly 5g of carbs a 50g bag.

Well for lunch today I had chicken and avacado salad, and they put the dressing in a little dish for me

salad was very nice and I have a tiny bit of dressing (as I didn't know how many carbs were in the dressing)

Dinner is going to be lamb chops, cauliflower cheese and some green beans

EmmaG · 07-07-2007, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Mags

Smudgley, here is a link to a carb 'counter', there would be too many pages to print out I expect, so maybe you could bookmark it and then you'd have it on hand to check those good and bad carbs!

http://www.lowfatlifestyle.com/stats...oodstats_a.htm

Good link thanks for posting that Mags

EmmaG · 07-07-2007, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by smudgley

But how do I know how much carb is in a sausage from the butcher? Or chicken? burgers with cheese & onions ---- now your talking.... Yum yum!

Sausages from butchers tend to be quite high in meat you can always ask your butcher if he can recommend his best sausages with the lowest "fillers" in them, fillers will be breadcrumbs etc. The higher the meat content the better.

Donna · 07-07-2007, 06:16 PM

I have had a scotch egg for breakfast (around 15g carb so quite high but wanted a quick breakfast whilst at work!), had some chicken bites for lunch and I have just had a boiled egg and mayo.

EmmaG · 07-07-2007, 06:21 PM

Not too bad Donna, if it was me I would have eaten the egg and sausagemeat and thrown the rest

lol

A few days I am sure I must go over 20g carbs but other days definitely below I reckon.

EmmaG · 07-07-2007, 06:22 PM

Good to hear that you both feel well, I feel fantastic at the moment, not hungry at all, still haven't had dinner yet

smudgley · 07-07-2007, 06:30 PM

I had salad for lunch & am having beefburgers for tea with cheese & fried onions. Are you sure that is ok? Doesn't sound like diet food, but I'm not complaining.

Can't wait to get on the scales next week & see what i've lost.

Donna · 07-07-2007, 06:33 PM

I found I couldnt believe at first that the diet could POSSIBLY work cos I was eating foods that were before off limits totally.

Cooked breakfasts, cheese, cream, sausages, burgers, steaks...

doesnt sound like a diet does it???

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