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Carb Counts for Prepared Foods?
Acertaingirl,
If you read my various articles on long-term low carbing, you'll see that I believe very strongly that there is a place for eating everything in a low carb way of life that can be sustained for many years. The real issue for me is not to say, "I won't ever eat X, Y or Z in a restaurant," but rather to know what it is I'm eating. I will occasionally eat something with 40 grams of carbs in it, on purpose, enjoy it, and move on. The problem for me is when I think I'm eating something with 10 grams of carbs and it turns out to have 40! So my advice about being careful about the restaurant food was more to warn you that you may be eating a bunch more than you expected if you are trying to maintain your carb intake at some set level. But I, personally, could not stay on a low carb regimen for year after year if I didn't have occasional days when I could eat anything I want or have a treat at a special restaurant meal. I tried it the other way years ago when I started low carbing, with everything high carb off limits all the time, and it worked for a year or two, but by year 3 I was having serious deprivation issues that got worse and worse and resulted in a lot of "rebound" eating of things I really did not need to eat. So I make room for off-plan foods now. I just try to make sure that I don't get blindsided with hidden carbs when I think I am eating on-plan. My blood sugar meter told me in no uncertain terms that very small portions of breaded fried stuff had a whole lot more carbs in them than I thought, so while I might still eat them, I know that a few bites of those onion rings is going to be my high carb treat for the day! -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. Below goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.7 . Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/...0Diagnosed.htm "Acertaingirl" wrote in message ... My advice would be to avoid any fried foods or restaurant foods with breading on them because it is so hard to estimate the actual carb counts. Does that include flour? I guess so, since bread is made of flour huh?? It was my first "real dinner" out in 11 weeks with a friend I haven't seen in awhile, so I splurged. Meanwhile, she was eating "mozzarella in carozza" (mozzarella sandwiches dipped in batter and deep fried). It looked delish, but I honestly wasn't even tempted (yeaah for me!) |
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