Hello Everyone,
My name is Tracy a.k.a. toothfairee, compliments of my daughter
I have been on the South Beach Day for 13 days, I'm in phase 1. I have been lurking around enjoying everyone's posts immensely, they have really helped alot. So I figured it was time to join in. So here are a few of my questions:
How do I get all the fancy stuff on here, smileys, etc. That looks fun.
About food, I went to Trader Joe's and got a stuffed piece of salmon that was utterly delicious but I was wondering if it fits okay on this WOE. It had cream cheese, shrimp and dill and the problem was the fat content, I think. It had 13 grams of fat, I am unsure about watching the fat content of foods on this plan. I know to watch carbs but I have questions on that too, what is considered low carb? He does talk about eating low fat meat like we can't have Ribeye steaks, etc. but is my salmon okay?
Salad dressings and carbs is my next question. What is low? Is 5 carbs low for salad dressings? I am going to weigh on Monday and I am concerned that I am not doing some of this right. What about fat content in salad dressings do we need to watch that?
I have a friend at work who is doing this plan too and she made an very delicious hot cocoa the other night. It had powdered milk that she had mixed with water and heated in the microwave until it was frothy and then she threw it in her blender with a couple teaspoons of cocoa powder and a dash of salt and some splenda and blended it all up. I was wondering if the powdered milk is not in phase 1? She said it was quite tasty because it came out like a latte or something. I got sugar free Swiss Miss last night and it has 10 carbs? How is that? That sounds too high to me.
I think that is all for now, thanks for the help.
Tracy