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I like the Mission brand low carb whole wheat tortillas (the smaller one, not the Fajitas one). its good for me watching carbs! Tastes like it has a bit of honey in it. Great for tacos!

Easy answer - Because she wants to eat according to these parameters. No explanation necessary. She just WANTS to.

and watch out for gym trainers who say "walking out side wont do you as good as being in the gym" they most like want to sell you trainer sessions = $$$$$

Tried Halo Top.. did not care for it.. too watery. not worth it! if im going to have ice cream its gotta be excellent. LIke Breyers churned!

I mean the IIFYM folks will say any food is good. So im putting in a disclaimer that some people are selective about the foods they eat and so comparing watermelon to some candy treat - the watermelon would be worth it nutritionally.

The answer to all these alleged "hidden" sugars is this - learn all you can. Learn what the different names for sugar is - sucrose, fructose, lactose, cane sugar, white sugar, brown sugar, etc. (theres more).. then you don't have to be surprised. And learn that the ingredients in foods are listed in order of quantity.…

Now that i have not been eating much refined sugar products, the food that has sugar in it, is very sweet. so here is what i do - bbq sauce is too much sugar, but ketchup is better and even better than that - salsa. you can really change your food choices if you want to enjoy sauce, but not be so sweet.

For the benefits you get from some food, its worth it. For me, it is way better to have a bowl of watermelon than a piece of cake. I don't mean all you IIFYM folks, but for people who want to choose more nutritious food vs a treat.

Hmmm, well maybe.. thats usually what people say when they mean they are going to cut out the refined sugars, i.e. cake, pie, Snickers bars, etc.

Yes im trying to do low carb but not the very stringent keto he is doing. I have pre-diabetes. Yet, with the little bit i eat, even if one serving is 4-8 carbs, its still within my carb macros.

Generally, that sounds like a pretty good eating plan. You will know when you see it work for you or not. Whatever made you re-gain 100 pounds that you worked so hard to lose - THAT is what i would focus on and not do those things again. You learned what worked for you in the past and what messed you up regaining. Remember…

I interpret what the OP says and means is she is cutting out refined sugars and added sugars.

We all want the scale to move quickly! To handle the fretting about it when it does not move as you want - here is what helps me - Patience, realizing that weight loss is not always downward and the same, sometimes you have gains, one pound a week loss, 2 ounces of weight loss a day, etc. Also remember that each day is a…

oh that is helpful. thank you so much :) i'm going to keep that in mind when i go shopping this weeknd for groceries.

ok then that is helpful info from everyone! i just started adding fruit to my keto diet, and maybe in a week or two i will add some grains and see how that works on me. If i test it a week then i will have a better idea .

but I still want to know how I can manage the high carb complex carbs . im thinking if I stay with up to 100 per day, if I go over a bit on some days, it might not make a difference in the overall month. but I don't want to start messing around and being very cautious. I'm also not looking to eat IIFM with refined carbs…

2 GOALS - lose weight (controlled mostly by calories) and reverse the pre-diabetes. Doc said I could do 50 - 100 total carbs. Tryin to see from others here how I can manage the hi-carb complex carbs like rice, beans.

if you keep your calories under control, you can probably eat more carbs than you think especially if it has a lot of nutrients in it. i.e berries.. so 20 carbs, that's nothing. But so worth it for the fiber and vitamins. the bad carbs if you want to classify it - is cake, pastries, etc.. so those things could be…

i do 50 - 100 carbs because i have a pre-diabetes thing im trying to reverse (and its working!)

This is encouraging to read for those of us who think our weight loss is slower than we want it to be. I know how the OP feels about "only losing 9 pounds in two months".. people say thats great.. it sure is hard for the person to feel that it is! so this is actually encouraging to read that 1 pound a week IS great! Thank…

Coffee and cream in the morning.

Swiss Rolls are 3 jillion calories!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

when I was little, I never was hungry, never bothered to eat breakfast. and I never got on the morning orange juice kick.. even now, seems like orange juice is the common food item in restaurants, they even give you free o.j. but I don't like it, didn't like the junk floating around on top (maybe that's why!).. too…

Whatever that is, it looks awful!

For me, i am on month 3 of this. i was doing keto/low carb (whichever one i could do in a day). month 2 weight stalled. since last week i upped my carbs to 100 total, and added fruits, and doc told me its basically i will lose weight counting calories and keeping carbs 100 or less to reverse pre-diabetes. i lost more…

Rarely for a meal do I go get fast food.. I make one exception - sopraffina restaurant.. which has quick salads and oatmeal and stuff I can eat - to go.. when I have been too busy to cook my own food. the other stuff is just too tempting.

ye found that out, mad at my wasted 4 weeks thinking I was going to lose weight if I just kept on doing what I was doing.

I was doing that keto diet too. when I started adding in the heavy whipping cream, and the extra butter to meet the fat requirements, I was going over my calories. they say you don't need to watch calories, but that is a mistake. Watch your calories, they will stall you. I stalled 4 weeks!!! then went back to lower fat and…

thanks for your kind answer! I am reversing pre-diabetes and that is what the doc recommended. Its actually more carbs than I allowed myself. MFP allows me like 200 or more, and so that is too high for my goals. I had started on the LCHF diet and so fruit was not ok. I am learning that its calories that are making me lose…

the 2 slices of pizza might not cause you to gain weight, but if that food begins to add weight, and you continue to eat it, then that 2 slices of pizza might not be your best choice. See how it goes over the course of a few weeks whether it slows down your goals or makes no difference.