Salad and eat the toppings.

I went to Pizza Hut yesterday after reading this thread. I am not going back today but will have bacon and eggs for lunch. A large salad and the toppings off of 14 thin slices of pizza was a bit much but it was two scoops of custard from Culver's where my daughter works that did me in on carbs.

When I go off the tracks for a day I go ahead and make it a train wreck that is newsworthy.

The nice thing now is with LCHF I can just start over the next day. Yes I noted I was more stiff this morning but I did sleep solid for 8 hours, did some range of motion movements, when to the restroom and ate my normal breakfast.

Being able at my age to sleep for 8 hours (through a storm in fact) without waking up in pain or need to rush to the bathroom is something I do not hear my friends talk about being able to do.

A.) I usually order a salad and eat some of the toppings.
B.) I usually make something different for myself, like Fathead Pizza, which is delicious!

I'm becoming the person who brings food with them to get-togethers. This past weekend, my niece had a birthday party, and my SIL fixed spaghetti and meatballs (and veggie "meatballs" because my 6-year-old niece is a vegetarian ... LOL.) I just took a pack of shirataki noodles with me, and also brought the ingredients to make a low-carb chocolate mug cake. My SIL is also a vegetarian, so she is very understanding of dietary needs, and usually has two or three different things available for people to eat. My niece, who turned 6, was bummed that I wasn't eating her birthday cake. I simply told her that I can't have sugar because it will make me sick. She asked if I would take at least one bite, so I did. One bite was all I needed. Ugh. It was sickeningly sweet.

Come on old timers... to eat the toppings (only) of a pizza ~ the Keto/Low Carb term for that is called "scraping"! I love to scrape pizzas. I get the weirdest looks from friends, but when I tell them I lost a lot of weight, they back off.

I make my own, since its so easy. The dough was the hard part of making a pizza anyway. With that out of the way, its a whole lot simpler. So if you make one, you throw in a frying pan or bake all the ingredients that you like on a pizza. Add lots of cheese at end.

Be careful though, the calories will mount up quickly.

The carb count will be low if you pick low carb toppings. And you can find pretty low carb pizza sauce in grocery store, but it takes a lot of label reading. A lot of them have lots of sugar in them.

I added the word, "scraping" to my blog:

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I hope this helps,
Dan the Man from Michigan
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I get together with friends about once per week (it doesn't always happen, but I try) for board games at a pizza place. I'm pretty new to actively trying to cut carbs (like less than a week new), but last Sat. I got a cobb salad. Still, it had 61g of carbs because of the croutons and it comes with a roll. Since my blood sugar was low when I arrived (I have diabetes, hence the reason for trying to cut carbs), I needed the carbs anyway. In the future, if my BG isn't low, I might skip the croutons and roll.

Toppings and salad!

Dairy-free most of the time here, so for me I usually IF or order a piece of fish or something if it's more of a sit-down reastaurant than just a standard pizza joint.

Having done the topping-scrape thing in the past, it does make me chuckle that it seems like half of what you're paying for is crust.