First rung of OWL.

[StaceyKath]

I'm trying to start OWL this week, but adding more vegetables is hard, and getting up to 25 carbs is even harder. Please let me know how this looks. This was today, and I have some pumpkin I can mix up with some stuff and eat for desert if needed.

Breakfast:

cinnamon splenda mock danish w/3 tbls cream cheese and 1 egg white with a little bit of yolk.
iced coffee w/ sugar free torani and 2 tbls heavy whipping cream.

Lunch:

Salad from Savemart, package said 12 carbs w/ dressing and 3g fiber.
Added 1/2 an avacado.

Dinner:

Wings from Red Robin, ate 1/2 the order and 3 pieces of the celery
Carnitas Fajitas from Red Robin, 1/2 the order and no tortillas.

Calorie-Count.com gave me a daily analysis of:

Fat - 69.0% (106 grams)
Protein - 22.8% (78 grams)
Carbohydrates - 8.2% (28 grams)
Alcohol - 0.0%
Other - 0.0%

Daily Sodium Intake - 324 mg
Daily Sugar Intake - 6 grams
Daily Cholesterol Intake - 71 mg
Daily Saturated Fat Intake - 16 grams
Daily Fiber Intake - 14 grams

So any thoughts.

-Stacey

[StaceyKath]

Oh I'm almost 100% positive the carbs shown is not net carbs. Especailly because I enter items manually off labels and those aren't net carbs usually, but the counts don't change to net carbs in the analysis that I've noticed. If that makes sense.

-Stacey

[not2late]

Hi Stacey.

For OWL Rung 1, you add 5 net carbs of any Induction vegetable to your typical Induction menu. For example, if your Induction menu looked something like this:

Breakfast
2 eggs, boiled
2 bacon

Lunch
2 chicken legs
1 cup lettuce
1/2 cup cucumbers
1/4 cup celery
1/4 red peppers
2 tablespoons dressing

Dinner
2 pork chops
1 cup broccoli
2 ounces Brie cheese

All you would do for this menu is add 5 net carbs of any Induction veggie. For example, 5 net carbs of spaghetti squash (roughly 1/2 cup spaghetti squash) as a side dish for your pork chop and broccoli dinner, or 5 net carbs of tomato (roughly 1/2 cup tomato) with your lunch salad, etc.

My suggestion for your menu is to drop eating all that lettuce. There's about 1/2 to 1 net carb per cup of lettuce. So that means in order to eat 5 net carbs of lettuce, you'll need to eat a lettuce mound the size of Mt. Everest on top of the 3 cups of Induction veggies daily! That's way too much volume for anyone.

Also, the 25 net carb thing is only true if you've been eating 20 net carbs daily during your Induction. For example, if you've been averaging 15 net carbs daily, you add 5 net carbs of Induction veggies to your current Induction menu.

I hope this helps!