Thanks for the suggestion of the silicone lunch cups - never hear of them before. Great idea.

Also thaks for the encouragement.

Thanks Caliana for Explaining the email about this thread and for these suggestions. Unfortunately my apartment is too small for a table. My 2-wheel walker does have a platform attached which is a huge blessing for carrying things (except when my cat is using it as a bed and doesn't mind taking a ride with me).

I learned to hate chicken when I was a 3 time failed Weight Watcher member - so it's not usually on the menu - but I have been thinking of trying one of the baked chickens at the grocery store. No glaze/breaded types. It can be cut up and frozen. I will see if my aversion still holds. Worth a try.

I use my oven for storage of pots and pans. My kitchen is so small there isn't enough room for them elsewhere. My prep space is tiny. If I emptied the stove, I wouldn't know where to put those pots and pans besides in the sink.
Just dealing with the realities of living space. It is an adjustment from living in a 1600 sq ft house where I had plenty of room in the kitchen. Not any more.

Thanks for all the great suggestions

Great suggestion Dierdra. Looks quite do-able

Great suggestion. I wonder if making a hole in the middle of a hamburger patty would work just as well even if pan frying.

Oh for the days of a hamburger on a bun! Sigh.

Would it help if I said I got over it?

Yes, it's messy to put the burger on plate and eat it with a fork, or wrap it in a big lettuce leaf.

On the other hand, there's the soul-crushing despair of desperately trying to find a pair of pants which will zip up.

At least we get to pick.

I think that's what gets me off track sometimes - the memory of a Big Mac or a BLT. I have an enabler friend who brings me peanut butter cookies. Breaks my heart to throw them out.

But you are right - either buy new fat clothes or lose back into the old clothes. I don't really have a great deal of interest in shopping for clothes - never have.

I don't really have a problem of hamburger sans bun.

I don't find it hard to stay under 20 carbs for a day - don't forget to take fibre off!!

For the first 4 weeks when I do a strict <20 carbs a day (after that I usually ease up to 30/40) I stick to salad leaves and cabbages - you can eat a ton of them and not get over your carbs. No nuts, no snacks, 2 meals a day.

Breakfast:
3 eggs (fried, scrambled, cooked)
1 Box of Button Mushrooms
3 slices of bacon
half a cucumber
1 Tablespoon of Mayo

Lunch:
Any plain meat (whatever is on deal at the supermarket, Pork Shoulder Steaks tend to be cheap this time of year) fried in butter
Half a green cabbage or Cauliflower Mash, or Broccoli, or Swiss Chard, or the other half of the cucumber
Add a tablespoon of coconut oil or some more Mayo

I am stuffed to bits and have lots of vitamins and hardly any carbs - if I get bored of Cabbages, I eat salad from a bag - Rocket, Mixed leaves, Iceberg, whatever they have fresh, just make sure it isn't mixed with peas or carrots

Good suggestions, MadPiano. Thanks

Sorry, that was strange autocorrect. They are silicone pinch cups.

Hi Benay...I posted this to you in another thread but this seems related so...



Do you ever have smoothies?

Blue Ruby, I replied to you on the other thread.
Thanks

One of the issues I have with staying under 20 carb grams/day, is total carb grams versus carb grams subtracted by fiber grams. So when I see carb grams posted on the Diet Doctor's site, I check to see what kind of carb counter is being used.

Although Dr Westman says to use total cab grams, the Diet Doctor web site showing carb grams in vegetables is misleading.

For example - avocados. Diet Doctor says 1/2 avocado is 3 grams carb https://www.dietdoctor.com/wp-conte...tables-AG-1.jpg

When I looked up avocados elsewhere, it says carb grams in half an avocado are 8 1/2 grams carb and 6.7 grams fiber

So, which do i base my carb gram calculation on?

Very confusing

Dr Westman's diet is 3 cups of vegetables from his allowed list of foods. Seriously you do not need to count any macros, nor subtract any fiber. But if you want to make life more complicated, two tips:

If you click on the little g. circle in three colors (low, med, high carb levels) on DietDoctor Recipes...you see Fiber under Net Carbs. Add it back and that is total carb count. You can also filter all the recipes with "only Keto" and get only recipes with very low carb counts that work. This is the way UK and European food labels are stated (maybe rest of world too?) it is the US that requires math to figure it out. Not to confuse the issue, but carb calculations differ: https://www.esha.com/how-carbs-are-...rent-countries/



As for that chart of vegetables, they are all allowed..with these limits: 2 cups salad greens, 1 cup cooked vegetables, 6 olives, avocado 1/2 per day. Avocado is only 1/2 per day because you are right, a whole avocado is 17g carbs, 13 g fiber.


But if you want to obsess about vegetable carbs (none of us got fat eating too much zucchini) , Google to the rescue! Type "Carbs in vegetable x" into your Google Search Bar, the results at top are Total Carbs from the USDA Nutrition Database, with a drop down menu of various serving sizes. Then if you want the total and fiber, click on "more at" and a full nutrition label pops up. Ten years ago, the Atkins company sent a book with total and net carbs in their starter kit, but the internet has leaped beyond my old paper and pencil method. If you have a copy of the "famous" 2002 DANDR edition...that has total and net in the back.

It is confusing. Dr Westman always uses total carbs without the fiber subtracted and I believe that diet doctor always uses net carbs, that is total carbs with the fiber subtracted. I find it is necessary when I am unsure of the actual carb count of something, that is when it does not state whether net carbs or total carbs are referenced, that I have to go to a carb counter like chronometer which gives both net and total carbs, to check it out. In the final analysis it is up to each one of us individually to choose which method to use, total carbs or net carbs. I base that on what seems to be working best for me, which at the moment seems to be between 10-15 gms of net carbs. That is about 30 gms of total carbs. Then we need to double check the carb count that is stated to check what it refers to, net or total.

Thanks Cotonpal, that makes sense.
Jey, I was talking about avocados not zucchini

Just out of curiosity, I weighed myself when I got up this morning and found my weight the same as yesterday's. Then I weighed myself at my usual time, after coffee, and I had gained 1 1/2 pounds

I wonder if I need a new battery for my scale?