What did you eat today?

[Joanne]

Hi All,
I purchased the book about a month ago, but I have not yet gone full speed ahead with following it completely.
i have lost 5.5 lbs since the beginning of March and hope to lose about 40 more.My husband would like to lose about 25 lbs.
I have been eating egg beaters with onions, peppers, spinach and mushrooms most mornings, salads for lunch with chicken that I bake with salt and pepper,using oil and balsamic vinegar as the dressing for the salad.I just found the La tortilla factory tortillas, and am planning to order  gg crispbread this week. Dinners and late night snacks have been my downfall!
I was hoping that some of you would share your daily menu to help me and everyone else on here to succeed.

Thanks
Joanne

BTW Doug, my mother in law is friends with Barbara Varrieur, small world isn't it??

[Doug Varrieur]

It is a small world! My cousin Steve, aunt Barbara's son has lost 75 pounds in the last 10 months. You mention snacks, what kind of snacks?

[Joanne]

Baked tortilla chips, salsa, sour cream
baby carrots, hummus
chobani yogurt was a daily fav until I read your book and figured out the net carbs!

[Doug Varrieur]

tortilla chips turn to sugar, salsa turns to sugar, humus turns to sugar, carrots turn to sugar. All your snacks are turning to sugar. Time to get back into the book. Make up some snack trays from the recipe section 

[SherriPie]

Hi Joanne,

I just started the diet last week so I am real newbie at it. I too am a late night snacker.  I enjoy a snack at night so what I did was substitute my sugary snacks with peanuts. I went even further and bought a bag of raw peanuts and roast them myself. They taste amazing right out of the oven. Then I bag them up into little baggies and stick them in the pantry so it's easy to grab a bag when you feel snackish and not overindulge. I also pack them in my son's lunches instead of chips to save on his sugar intake.

 I was never really a big peanut person but I love peanut butter cookies and when they are roasting they smell just the same. Give it a try!

[yobdab]

Breakfast -

3 eggs
2 jalapenos
4 slices of turkey bacon
2 slices of Sargento pepper jack
Glass of water

= 3 carbs

Lunch -

2 cups Spinach salad w/ broccoli
3 TBSP of Hidden Valley Ranch
Glass of water

= 3 carbs

Dinner -
Plan on having:

Tortilla wrap with
2 Nathan skinless hot dogs
2 slices Sargento pepper jack
leaf of Romaine lettuce
2 Jalapenos
1 TBSP of mustard

= 7 carbs

The Sargento and Nathan's claim 0 total carbs.
I am hoping my count of a total of 13 correct.

[Doug Varrieur]

Yobdab, you did a good job counting the carbs, easy isn't it The only thing I would have done differently is wrap my dogs in romaine lettuce leaves. I like the leaves for a wrapper more than anything for dogs, burgers, sandwiches etc... The frosting on the cake is I eliminate the carbs from the tortilla as well.

This is a good menu....you're going to shrink

[katary]

this is a piece of my bread(.22 carbs) a slice of muenster cheese and 2 slices of salami after toasting it in a toaster oven..it was very tastey!!! the salami says 1 carb for 5 slices,cheese 0 carbs>>total carbs is less than 1  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Joanne]

Looks great!

[katary]

   it was !! 

[beebs]

Drool... And all you did was substitute almond meal for pork rinds yes?

[katary]

yes beebs that all i did...i used a 5oz bag of pork rinds,ground them up in my food processor and replaced the almond meal in the recipe with that........ i used bbq flavored for a little zip. as we speak i have something in the oven in which i used regular pork rinds,and i had you in mind when i was making it....don't ask why cuz i don't know..lol i am so hoping it turns out as i envision.I'll let ya know later tonite!!!

[katary]

mmmmmmm deep fried shrimp with bbq pork rind breading!!!

    we went without cocktail sauce>>> still very tastey!!!

[Doug Varrieur]

You're on a roll my friend! Keep that creativity coming. I remember when I first started creating recipes low carb it seemed the possibilities were endless....and they are!

[beebs]

Go Gary! I feel so lazy now lol.