Yay! I said no to bread AND wine!

[LambChopTaylor]

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I went out to dinner at the Outback Steak House to celebrate 5 days of low-carb eating. I was only at 10 carbs when I left and ate about 11 carbs while I was there! (Only 1 carb over, I am not gonna cry about it.)

Well, I got the house salad with olive oil (no croutons)....well it came with croutons anyway which I gave to my boyfriend....I also had no wine and none of the bread which sat staring at me.

I eye-balled the salad at about 1.5 cups, didn't eat the cherry tomatoes or the onion so that's about 2 plus the one ounce cheese on it..1 carb (Salad, 3)

My prime rib came and it was beautiful. I ate it and felt on top of the world being able to share a nice date dinner with my boyfriend. I also got two servings of broccoli but only ate 1.5 of it. According to atkins 1/2 cup of broccoli is 4 (3.9, I rounded) so that was only 8 carbs.

Dinner total: 11

I love this lifestyle!

And I am so proud of myself for saying no to croutons, wine and bread so even if my carbs were a tad over 20 - I say I did a very good job!

[Neecy]

That's fantastic!!! I'm learning slowly but surely how to alter my meals to fit my new WOE. Glad you had such a great time.

[fat4now]

Way to go LambChopTaylor! You are gaining control over your eating and it feels great to be in control. Congrats to you and i know there will be many more victories ahead

[jaybee007]

That's really great! Congrats!

[LambChopTaylor]

Thanks for all the great feed back! And ya know what? I left the table feeling full and happy, instead of either starving or WAY TOO FULL. I have never felt like that before. Who needs bread when you can feel 100% satisfied?