Bad night

[esac]

Just having a bad night and wanting to post about it.

Tonight I couldn't decide what to eat for dinner. I was getting hungry, it was a little past my 6 hours without food, and I was desperately searching for something good to eat on the recipe board. I finally settled on the chicken enchilada casserole recipe I ran to the store, grabbed ingredients, came home, and started making it. The recipe calls for Taco Seasoning .. so I grabbed our bottle of McCormicks Taco Seasoning, sprinkled a liberal dash over it, and threw it in the oven. I was busy getting a bath ready for the babies, and it was only after I had drawn the bath that I checked the label for the taco seasoning and realized that it contained sugar (1g of carbs from sugar). Doing so well on this diet, I knew I couldn't eat it, and there was a dinner that had to go in the garbage (my wife won't eat anything spicy including the green chile sauce).

Next, I pulled my bag of chicken wings out of the fridge and noticed that they too have 1g of sugar carbs .. well those were out. Finally I settled on a cup of broccoli w/ butter, turkey italian sausage, and 3/4 cup of green peppers.

After dinner I treated myself to a splenda diet rite (which I only have every other night). And then I sat down and plotted my dinner in fitday, only to realize that I was at 19g carbs for the day which is a little too close for comfort in case I measured something wrong, and that wasn't counting the diet rite

Ray

[Elizellen]

Sorry to hear you had such a rough end to the day

When I started induction I found that unless I planned ahead for each day's menus I had times like that, so you are not alone.

Are you counting 'net carbs' (total less fibre)?

[esac]

Originally Posted by Elizellen

Sorry to hear you had such a rough end to the day

When I started induction I found that unless I planned ahead for each day's menus I had times like that, so you are not alone.

Are you counting 'net carbs' (total less fibre)?

Actually i'm not .. I figure if i try for just 20 grams carbs total that i'll always be within my goal

So that leaves me at 15g net carbs for yesterday, not bad. But I was dark purple yesterday on the ketostix (i gave in and bought some), and today i'm slightly darker than the light purple, so i've dropped a little, but i'm not worried.

Yes, planning meals is a good thing, i'm already looking at the low carb deep dish recipe for tonite, just trying to figure out pizza sauce.

[Lyssie]

umm.. you should always subtract fiber... That way when you get to the veggies rung you won't be completely freaking out.

Ummm.. I guess maybe I have this view since I would have still eaten the dinner since a dash of something that contains 1g carbs for a serving (what *was* the serving size anyway), and I eat buffalo wings a lot...

Anyway, I'm sorry you had a rough night. Planning meals is definitely a life saver... for the ketostix, as long as you're a colour, you're great... if you're dark purple it usually means that you need to be drinking more water actually....

[Elizellen]

Originally Posted by esac

Actually i'm not .. I figure if i try for just 20 grams carbs total that i'll always be within my goal

Dr Atkins tells us to count net carbs in DANDR, so that is what I do.

[sadie147]

I agree with Lyssie, I would not have thrown out the food based on a trace amount of sugar...if it really concerned me I wouldn't have had it again, but I would never throw it out for such a small amount. I don't think the 1g of sugar in the taco seasoning would have had much affect on you.

the chicken wings that I eat have 2g's of carbs per serving of 5 wings, and I have been eating them since beginning this woe without issue. I just make sure it is in my daily totals.