{"id":52000,"date":"2017-04-24T08:44:34","date_gmt":"2017-04-24T15:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=52000"},"modified":"2017-04-23T14:44:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-23T21:44:53","slug":"light-carb-update-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=52000","title":{"rendered":"Light Carb Update #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am happy that it is starting to be berry season because berries, especially strawberries (my favorites), are lower in carbs. I’ve been struggling to get lower than 100grams of carbs a day in my diet. I hover between 100-130 on my “low carb days”, which doesn’t really feel low carb if you ask me. BUT I am still not eating bread, rice, potatoes or pasta sooo….in that aspect I’m doing well.<\/p>\n

I’ve done some reading and it seems like a true low-carb diet, like Atkins, is somewhere around 20 grams of carbs a day. That sounds INSANE to me, and definitely not something you can keep doing long term.<\/p>\n

Progress<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The blip last week fixed itself this week! I’m down to 169! Woot Woot! Happy to be out of the 170’s finally. It was hard to break that threshold when I was yo-yo-ing up and down the same 5 pounds.<\/p>\n

So far in the last month, or so, I’ve lost 6 pounds<\/strong><\/span>. I’m pretty happy with that!<\/p>\n

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Challenges<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Last week Michael and I had a date night to see Joe Rogan’s stand up here in Portland.<\/p>\n

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We went out to dinner at Reverend’s BBQ<\/a> and I was able to stay on my diet for the most part! I REALLY wanted the mac n’ cheese or hushpuppies but I ordered smart. We shared some deviled eggs:<\/p>\n

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And I got brisket with the collard greens. (So delicious!)<\/p>\n

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My carbs came from the BBQ sauce and the wine:<\/p>\n

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Despite that, I was able to stay around 100g of carbs total for the day of my eats. I’m happy that even eating out at a restaurant I was able to make good choices.<\/p>\n

Friday or Saturday nights are usually the day I choose for my “cheat meal” but this Friday I stayed on track and the “cheat” was having some wine with dinner:<\/p>\n

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I had a salad with blackened salmon and cottage cheese.<\/p>\n

Last week we tried cauliflower pizza for the first time. It was pretty good, but not quite right. Michael wanted to experiment and try again. So the day before he made the riced cauliflower even finer and then cooked it and tried to dry it a little more overnight. It didn’t really work so we ended up having homemade pizza.<\/p>\n

It was an unexpected carb “cheat” meal that I was a little disappointed to have (because I was having some momentum and wanted to keep that going a few more days before having a cheat meal) but in the end it turned out to probably be a good idea. Going too long in “denial” phase can lead to binges.<\/p>\n

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The pizza was sooo good!<\/em><\/p>\n

New This Week<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday for breakfast I tried having my breakfast burrito in a low-carb wrap:<\/p>\n

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Each wrap is 70 calories, 10g of carbs, 4g of fiber, 5g of protein. Good numbers if you ask me. So how did it taste? Not great…not as good as a flour or corn tortilla. I was kind of bummed out by that because I had high hopes! Especially considering the usual flour tortilla we use is 26 grams of carbs. BOO!<\/p>\n

I think the Flat-Out wraps are also pretty low in carbs. I might check those out next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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