Nancy, that's wonderful. It's the staying at the better weight that is the really tough thing to do and you are doing great.
Ivy, it's always a challenge when others wish you would join them in a sweet treat, isn't it? (oooooh, baked cherries are so nice)
Harmony, good job getting those emails - I have been meaning to. Your butter/cheese concerns are different from me, it's true. I was thinking yesterday that I probably couldn't do this without just planning on a big tossed salad a day for fiber's sake, and enjoying different things on it for variety. Well, take that to (my) logical conclusion and I don't know how I could be doing a tossed salad a day without mayonnaise! And I thought about you - are you eating regular mayo, or are you trying to find a special one made differently, or avoiding it completely?
There is almost always some form of mayo in my salad dressing - no kidding. I have variety by having tuna salad over it, or having a modified 7-layer type, with no peas (just mayo, cheese, bacon), or, now, by using Cruise's shrimp recipe over it (1 tablespoon mayo, 1 teaspoon lemon juice, dill to taste, about a half-stalk of chopped celery, mixed, then mix in about 7 small cooked shrimp - the ready rings at grocery would have 3 meals worth, then- which I like to cut in half to be more bites).
I had a Har dee's (Carl's) low-carb chargrilled chicken club sandwich while out yesterday, and, depending upon which online calculator you believe for the carb count, that was between 44 and 54 sugar calories, so not a problem. (no bun on their "low-carb", just a wrap of lettuce in a wrap of wax paper) Harmony, yes, it has cheese on it, and even if you omit that, they put bacon on it - so I don't know how impossible this sounds to you. Can give a recommendation that it tasted very nice, though it was messy to eat as a sandwich - but mine was just as they make it.
Har dee's also offers a burger the same way, but it has caused me acid reflux in the past. I would like to believe it's just because of the onions and I could omit those and be okay. Wary of it. Other chains may do no-bun sandwiches - have never found out.