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lucylee you are picking up on the count of starches in something. Cool.

I edited your post and marked the count if different from yours or if you didn't know. They are in red.

Here is Saturday's summary count:

20.5 starch
4 fruit
6.5 protein
2 vegetable
8.5 fat
2573 calories

McDonalds is the reason I said forget Sunday's but this is Saturday so let's say ...

Did you know that all Mc D's no longer carry cinnamon melts?

At breakfast you had:

7 starch
2.5 protein
6 fat

Dinner was:

11.5 starch
4 protein
2 vegetables
2.5 fat

Breakfast count was because of the cinnamen melts and dinner the cakes and sweetened ice tea.

Sunday's counts:

8.5 starch
2 fruit
1 protein
6 fat
1125 calories

You had a good soup choice. You were able to stay under 10 protein and closer to your 6 starches.

lucylee I know you will never consume milk in yofurt, milk or cottage form.

How about if we take those 2 milk and increase your starch by 2? That would give you 8 starch a day. Take the extra 80 calories and add them to your 200 calorie pool.

What I plan to eat Tuesday Aug 10th - 5.6 starches
1.6 Fiber Bar
0.0 Coffee, Black
0.0 Tea, mixuture Green/black unsweetened
0.0 Banana
0.0 Pecan halves (4)
0.0 Okra (no coating or batter used)
0.0 Tomato
0.0 Peppers
0.0 yogurt
3.0 Fish Sticks (2 sticks = 1 starch)
0.0 Wilted Spinach
1.0 Mac -N- Cheese (1/3 cup)
0.0 Grape Juice (1 cup)

3.4 lbs weight loss since Aug 1st

Right -- it's Saturdays that are so horrible -- b/c of McDonalds... AND usually going out to a movie or something.

But if Saturday was horrible, YESTERDAY was just as bad. I don't know what got into me. PMS, I guess, and I just ate everything that came into my field of vision, apparently. I started to ask if I could just leave it out and forget about it, but I'll go ahead and take my medicine, Indiana. Here goes:

Monday
10:30
PB crackers
Banana
Diet coke
12:00?
Big salad
9 squirts of dressing (9 calories)
6 Triscuits
1 slice cheese
2 cookies
4:30
granola bar
5:30
hamburger (Burger King, small/regular burger)
French fries/onion rings (shared w/dh, maybe ate half each order?)
Late night
grapes
1 cookie
watermelon
3? handfuls of popcorn (Orv. Red. microwave "natural")

Way to go OKay!!!

3.4 pounds since 8/1 is great.

lucylee Monday #s

14.5 starch
5 fruit
2 protein
3 vegetable
7.5 fat
1982 calories

Your lunch choices were good excluding the cookies.

Are you planning for dinner? You may not know where you will be eating but you know there will be starches. By cutting back on them through afternoon will get you closer to your goal. Different choices in the am and afternoon would have given you better results or a salad instead of onion rings/fries.

Did you decide to drop the milk and increase starches?

Houston....we have a problem.

Actually, it isnt a problem ......more like lack of knowledge

I made a new spreadsheet today to better track what I am eating. I used # of carbs divided by 15 to give me the # of starches instead of me just estimating how many using the chart (ie....one piece of bread = 1 starch, etc)

My starch #'s are much higher than I was estimating. Soooo....I have some more learning and adjusting (less starches) to do.

Tuesday starches = 10.6
1.6 - Fiber Bar 6am
0.0 - Coffee, Black (2 cup) 6am
0.0 - Tea, mixuture Green/black unsweetened (2 quarts) 7am-5pm
1.8 - Banana 9am
0.1 - Pecan halves (4) 9am
0.5 - Okra (no coating or batter used) 1 cup Noon
0.5 - Okra (no coating or batter used) 1 cup Noon
0.0 - Bacon Grease (1 oz) Noon
1.0 - Tootsie Pop (1) lunch
2.5 - Baked Potato Supper
1.3 - Gordon Fish Sticks (6 sticks) Supper
1.4 - Grape Juice (1/2 cup) 9pm

OKay are you doing starches or carbs.

If you are doing starches bananas is a fruit as is grape juice.

Okra is a vegetable.

Here is a link to do starches, etc easily.

http://tracker.diabetes.org/explore/bro ... ns/?page=3

I didn't look but I don't think tootsie's are 1 starch probably .5 starch

If you are doing carbs then it is too low for carbs I think

Certainly, leave out the milk and increase starches... but I'm a long way from 8 starches a day... can't even seem to be consistent w/10!

lucylee any idea how you are going to get down to 10? Would it help for you to track your starches in your post. It makes it go faster for me to have you indicate what you think the starches are.

Maybe it would give you more ownership if you marked them and I checked?