Cutting carbs...

if I were you i would only eat carbs at lunch and not dinner. you should always try to eat your carb earliest in the day as possible so your body has all day to process them. i would substitute your carb that you eat for dinner with a second veggie.

I would try cutting out the rice at lunch and having veggies instead like a salad, or some fresh veggies with hummus. I try to limit my "starchy carbs" like pasta, rice or bread to once per day. Instead of pasta at dinner add an extra veggie, like sweet potatoe, or squash. I usually have egg whites and/or protein shake for breakfast, and then lunch is sometimes oatmeal or sandwich, and then ckn for dinner with veggies. Hope this helps!!

Replace the rice and pasta with lettuce. It worked for me. You can even do that with bread. Now, instead of having a Turkey sandwich, I wrap it up in a lettuce leaf. and it tastes GOOD!

I also did the same thing for tuna salad. Instead of putting it on pasta, I put it on lettuce. I have cut my carbs way down doing this.

I have this problem quite a bit! I would suggest trying to cut the portions of pasta and bread down a little and if in dinner time that would make it a bit on the small side, replace with lots more veggies or maybe a potato - I know this is mainly a carb food but I think it has less per 100g that pasta or rice. Also if you have something where rice is the main ingredient (chicken curry?) mix about half the rice you usually have with some frozen vegetables and it fills up the plate nicely as if you were to have all rice
For lunch I sometimes have a tortilla wrap with chicken and salad (my diaries public if you want to have a look) the wrap has about 10g of carbs less than 2 slices of bread, so that can cut it a bit
Do you like eggs? Scrambled or boiled I usually have them and they are quite filling. I once heard of a recipe just for a snack/light lunch with a cut out pepper and fried eggs, that was nice. It was on www.skinnytaste.com which has a list of ingredients especially for low carb.