What are you eating? Worrisome WEDNESDAY 6/12/2019

Good morning!
B: coffee
L: turkey "egg roll in a bowl"
D: ribeye and a baked yellow squash with "baked potato" toppings: butter, sour cream, bacon pieces and chives

I have to confess that my meals planned for today seem excessive compared to others, but I swear they only add up to 1,250 calories total (even before exercise is tracked, which I plan to do), according to MFP. Today, I'm slightly over my total carb allowance, but many of the carbs are high fiber. I'm right on the spot with the sugars and protein, and actually slightly below my fat allowance.

B: Nice size serving of Quinoa Nutty Blackberry hot cereal using skim milk and fewer roasted pecans, and Truvia Nectar instead of honey (https://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/warm-and-nutty-cinnamon-quinoa-recipe.html), 3 oz Tropicana 50 OJ (added 1 oz water with good results), coffee with skim milk, multivitamin.

L: Tuna melt (one 647 wheat bread slice topped with 2 oz tuna salad, tomato, 2% American cheese slice), salad greens, baby carrots.

D: Leftover "lightened" whole wheat pasta dish I made yesterday (onions, garlic, shitake mushrooms, sundried tomatoes, chicken breast strips, a little goat cheese, fresh oregano, fresh basil, plain olive oil and olive oil from sundried tomato jar to lightly coat), snow peas, 2 oz taste of dry red wine.

S: Small bowl fresh berries and melon cubes, two "Skinny Peanut Butter Energy Bites" (made with pb2, water, chopped raisins, Truvia Nectar, and rolled oats), raw veggies maybe with a low cal yogurt herb dip.

For diabetics, there is a different measure called diabetic carbs. Calculated as Total_Carbs minus ((Fiber - 5)/2). It provides for more accurate insulin dosing. So a food with 50g carbs and 11g fiber would have 50 - 5 - 3 = 42 diabetic carbs rather than 39 net carbs.

DotRen,zazzles, about 8 years ago I was on a dietitian prescribed diet where she let me go by net carbs. Back then, my daily allowance was 60 g net carbs or fewer. I've got to admit that that was quite difficult for me. I did manage it, most of the time, for six months, but it wasn't sustainable. I lost 40 lbs on that diet during that period, which she called high fat, but I called low fat. However, now using MFP, I'm trying not to exceed the total daily carbs allowance of 135 g, and trying hard to reach their recommended daily goal of 25 g fiber, which I often reach or exceed because I'm trying to incorporate WW Core Plan features into this. I am much more comfortable with this 135 - 25 = 110 g net carb situation. Sometimes some of my carbs are also sugar alcohols. I don't overuse sugar alcohols, but I am fine with them if they allow me to have sweets beyond fruit. My total daily fat allowance is 47 g (13 g saturated fat), which I'm careful not to exceed because of my high cholesterol. When I'm not dieting and eating whatever I want, I do eat a lot more fat and carbs. Sometimes my triglycerides are normal, and sometimes they are high. Both my cholesterol and triglycerides were high this time.

Thank you for sharing about the diabetic carbs calculation system, zazzles. Luckily, I do not have pre-diabetes or diabetes, however, a couple of times in the past 9 years I did show as pre-diabetic. Diabetes type 2 is common in my family, among the females. My sister got diabetes and went so far as to get a gastric bypass surgery to help her combat it. That did help. I am not nearly as overweight as she was at her highest, and when a particular medication dose is low enough, I can be a rather determined dieter. When the medication is a factor, it can be very very difficult for me. Significantly limiting alcohol has also been helpful for me.

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