8:45AM
2 slices Julian Bakery Smart Carb bread with butter and Colby Jack cheese
Diet Coke with Splenda
1:15PM
Taco meat, chicken, lettuce, tomato, cheese, sour cream, salsa
Diet Coke with lime
3:30PM
Low-carb cheesecake (cream cheese, Xylitol, eggs), strawberries, and whipped cream
Diet Coke with Splenda
8:45PM
1 chicken breast with Colby Jack cheese and mayo
Low-carb cheesecake (cream cheese, Xylitol, eggs), strawberries, and whipped cream
Diet Coke with Splenda
NOTE: The minister of music at our church was recently blessed with his third child--a SURPRISE! Him and his wife moved to our area a little over a year ago and she found out she was pregnant within a few months of his calling to be our music leader. In their upper 30s, it took them TOTALLY by surprise. But what a blessing that new little addition to their family is and today we honored and showered them with gifts to help that munchkin get the care it needs to grow into a beautiful woman someday. After church this morning, the members of the choir all gathered together at a restaurant down the road.
We went out to a local Mexican restaurant called Bronco's and this ain't no Taco Bell. They serve the real stuff--which can be good and bad if you are livin' la vida low-carb. Rice is out. Refried beans are out. Nacho chips are out (even though they bring you a big basket full of them and place them right in front of you on the table). But you CAN have your selection of meats, cheese, and veggies along with some sour cream and guacamole if that floats your boat. So I got the taco salad made with beef and chicken, lettuce, tomato, cheese, sour cream and salsa. I asked for it without that carbohydrate-loaded bowl they serve it in, but they still served it to me anyway. Obviously I ate around it.
After watching our minister of music and his wife and two other kids open the gifts we had for them, it was already 3:00 in the afternoon. By the time we got home, I wanted something sweet to eat since I refused the cake and churros they were serving as dessert at the Mexican restaurant. My choir friends know not to even ask if I want something like that because they already know the answer--yes, my reputation precedes me! And that's a VERY good thing. I got my hands on this really fabulous low-carb cheesecake sweetened with Xylitol and threw some of those fresh strawberries we got from the farmer's market last week on top with some whipped cream. Delicious! It was a fantastic day to be livin' la vida low-carb!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
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What the heck? This is what I eat when I'm splurging. What happened to your low carb food plan? You can't be serious! This is very different than your usual plan. Marie
THANKS MarieD! What is on my menu today that looks like a "splurge" meal? It sounds like a misunderstanding of what I ate. Lemme know. :)
Aren't fajitas a good choice in a Mexican restaurant without the tortillas? I rarely go Mexican anymore after years of eating it just once too often. Most usually serve some type of flank steak as well.
Fajitas is what I usually get (naked, of course!) when I eat at a Mexican restaurant. But the taco salad looked like a good option if they had done what I asked with that bowl. Didn't tempt me at all, though. :)
When I go to Chili's I love to get the fajita trio hold the tortillas.
It's awesome baby!
I spread the sour cream, guacamole, cheese, and pico de gallo over the sizzling pile of meat and veggies and dig in.
Just thinking about it, I think I'm going to have to go there tomorrow night!
yes i am afraid i agree with marie when i say that this is not a good meal plan. The artificial sweeteners that are rampant in these frankenfoods will cause an insulin release the same as if it were real sugar...Which, as you know, is the cause for weight gain, heart disease, [insert any disease of civilization]. Stop the Madness.
This is no different than I've been eating for over five years on my healthy low-carb lifestyle. If you choose not to partake in these kinds of foods, then that's fine for you. But I'll keep on livin' la vida low-carb that way that helped me lose weight, get healthy and stay that way over the long-term. THANKS for your comments, keoferl. :)
Seems to me that if you enjoy sweets and can find a good, low-carb alternative then you should be able to have it. This is a lifestyle change and one that is much easier to stick with if you can still have the foods that you love. I LOVE cheesecake, and although I don't eat it everyday, we typically make one every 2-3 weeks. It's low carb and I enjoy it.
I appreciate Jimmy's honesty about what he eats. It would be easy for him to tell everyone what they want to hear, but he chooses to be an open door for all to see. Way to go, Jimmy.
THANKS Sam! The thing about making something like a cheesecake is you have to eat it up within a few days or it will spoil in your refrigerator. That's why I'll sometimes have the same low-carb food like cheesecake several days in a row to enjoy it while it lasts. Then it's gone and it's not on my menu again until the next time I get it in my house. I appreciate you understanding that I'm simply sharing what I eat on a daily basis rather than telling people what they should be eating on their low-carb lifestyle. It's none of my business what someone else choose to eat or not eat in their menus.
"The artificial sweeteners that are rampant in these frankenfoods will cause an insulin release the same as if it were real sugar..."
Nope. If this were true, diabetics would be screwed.
I've successfully frozen cheesecake when I was afraid it'd spoil. I froze it unwrapped, then wrapped it up tight in nonstick foil. My daughter makes hers in individual portions in a muffin tin, which also can be frozen.
2 Questions
1. Why not use Erythritol (no carbs) instead of Xylitol?
2. I have been doing some blood sugar testing after eating Julian Bakery bread and I get quite a spike, which leads me to question the validity of the carb count. Would love to hear from others on this.
Sydney, I appreciate your questions! On the issue of Xylitol instead of erythritol, it's just what the cheesecake was made with and has no impact on blood sugar levels. Erythritol contains 3g carbohydrates per serving from the sugar alcohols, by the way. :)
On the Julian Bakery bread, I'm sorry to hear your body responded that way. I have heard a few others report similar responses to their blood sugar on my forum, but others have said it has created no blood sugar spike in them. THANKS for your comments!
Hmm - what's a serving? According to this (http://www.mendosa.com/netcarbs.htm)and similar sites, there are .2 calories/gram - if a serving is the equivalent of 1 tsp (~4g) sugar, and erythritol is .6 as sweet as sugar, we need 1.66 g of erythritol for every gram of sugar, so we need 6.64g for a serving. 6.64g times .2 calories (all from carbs, one assumes) gives us 1.33 calories per serving which, it seems to me, is the equivalent of about .33g carb's worth (pretty close to zero, but admittedly not zero). Xylitol, on the other hand, is 3 calories per gram, but a little sweeter than sugar, I think, so maybe half the carbs of sugar, but not insignificant. But anyway, I thought the cheesecake might be your own creation (was hoping for a link to the recipe), in which case you'd have more control over the ingredients.
Cheers!
I have made my own variations on cheesecake, Sydney, with various sweeteners, but this particular one came HIGHLY recommended. And it was indeed sensational. Will probably share about it soon. THANKS again!
Please don't feel you need to respond to this - but just to round out the thought. One reason I brought up my experience w/the Julian bread is that it seemed like your weight loss stall (albeit slight, it seems to me) might be correlated w/the addition of the bread to your diet (I haven't paid close attention to the timing - just something to consider for you). If, as you suggest, people react differently to it (just tested my husband and he had the same 40 point rise in glucose after 2 slices), possibly you are one of the people whose body reacts. I don't know if you test your blood sugar, but even if you're not diabetic (I am not), it is a useful tool in figuring out what you can and can't eat on the LC regimen, and the meters are pretty cheap.
Anyway, that's my 2 cents - I promise to stop now (-:
It's possible, Sydney! I did check my blood sugar after consuming the JB bread last week and the response was completely normal. The blood sugar rise was only about 15 points and it came back to baseline within two hours.
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