So my husband and I started eating low carb. in Sept. due to health issues. The doctor said it would be impossible to control our diabetes with diet. With in one week we'd brought the numbers under control to within a safe range without medication. My husband has dropped over 130+ pounds and I've dropped 80+. Another surprising but pleasant outcome is that my husband irritable bowl issue disappeared in only a couple of weeks of starting. This was huge for us. It was at the point where if we went out somewhere after eating (or sometimes not even after eating) he'd need to find a restroom and I'd end up playing a game on his phone for 20+ minutes waiting for him. This was something that truly bothered him but with this woe it has disappeared.

Now my husband enjoys the effects of this woe and even likes the food. However, it doesn't bother him if he goes over his carbs some days. He figures it's okay and he can just step right back into this woe, which he always does. So trying to get him to wrangle the amount of carbs and types of carbs he eats on a designated "cheat" day is sometimes hard. We do not have many of these, birthday, anniversary, and 1 day when the fair is in town. We ended up going to ruby tuesdays for dinner last not due to an issue where the new puppy helped knock dinner to the floor. We did soup and salad bar. Not a bad choice. Still higher then I like but not bad. Now I watched my husband pile on the croutons and i watched him take that piece of bread and I've been nothing that he's been very carb loose lately. I didn't say anything because well I'm not his mother after all. Then last night as we were turning into bed he says "I think when we have days where we eat over our calories we really need to stick to low carb. My stomach is really upset after that biscuit tonight." I asked him what about his birthday and he said while we would still be going out he wanted me to check the menus a head of time and work it into our plan. Finally he's woken up.