Thank you both for your answers, and good luck with your plan petra65! I hope it works out for you. And yes, feedback is why I'm posting here as well.

Okay, I'm up to a 30 net grams carbs allowed now.

Total net grams carbs for yesterday: Exactly 30, woohoo!

Okay spending 4 hours driving today in bad weather...2 hours to the aquarium and 2 hours back (for our 5 yr old daughter) meant I sucked down fast food (again!) for lunch and dinner.

My total net carbs for today: 22

snapless-you did great under the circumstances.

B: 2 slices whole wheat french toast made with one egg, sugar free syrup, sugar free latte
L: chef salad with blue cheese dressing
D: 3 small cheese quesadillas made with low carb tortillas with refried beans and reduced fat sour cream
S: 1 slice watermelon

Calories: 1505 35C/24P/41F

Today's intake total 32 net grams carbs:

saturday

2 eggs and cheese (3), coffee with cream and half a splenda (2)

snack - celery (2)

lunch - 2 turkey patty

snack - glass of rose (3)

dinner - were going out to sushi for my roomies bday so i am going to have sliced raw tuna and some white wine. (5)

thats 15 but i will prob have a total of like 4 glasses of wine over the night so i left a little wiggle room.

Yesterday's meals: 32 total net grams carbs

Man, I overate yesterday. All "legal" food but way too much. Must have been from being so hungry from Saturday. Hopefully, I'll get back on track today. Having a smoothie for breakfast so I'm off to a good start and I'm packing my lunch for work.

Today: Total Net Carbs: 18 grams

EDIT: I just deleted the cherries from my dinner because I never actually ate them.

Yesterday's total carbs: 13 grams

Today's total carbs: 14 grams

Today's total carbs: 8

The following is today's journal entry:

Yesterday's total carbs: 21 grams

Today's total carbs: 28 grams

Yesterday's intake: 25 net grams carbs

Snapless-good for you for keeping up your posting even when no one else has been here. I will endeavor to do better.

I'm not trying to be mean here, I'm just a very blunt person...but I'm doing this for me. If someone else gets something positive out of my experience, I'll be ecstatic for them, but my only goal is me.

I made a decision to take back over my body - and the best way for me to make that decision happen is to keep throwing my daily efforts (or lack of) in that direction in my own face (which is why my journal says, "being blunt and honest with myself"). What better way to do that than advertise it to other people?

Yesterday's total carbs: 16 grams

Next day note: the wine definitely helped my mood. And today? I don't feel any cravings at all.

You are right-the most important thing is to do this for yourself. I know from past experience it gets boring talking to yourself.

There are low carb peanut butter cookie recipes if that is something that interests you. Depends on your ability to get some unusual ingredients and how you feel about sugar alcohols, etc. I could post some if you are interested.

This was certainly not a perfect food day for me but I am going to post what I ate anyway. I did my best with estimating calories-it's probably not perfect but not far off. I think I have also decided that next month I'm going to move to the sugar shakers forum because I'm just too confusing to newcomers here.

B: smoothie made with 1 cup lowfat plain yogurt, 1/2 cup 1% milk, 1 cup mixed frozen berries, 1/2 cup frozen peaches, 1 scoop strawberry whey protein powder and some davinci syrup, sugar free latte with 1% milk

L: 6" italian sub (similar to subway bmt) on whole wheat roll, 1 package potato chips

D: 3 oz. pork roast with bbq sauce, small sweet potato with 1/2 tbsp butter, 1 small tomato with fresh mozzarella (capriese salad).

Calories: 1878

I got some low calorie bbq sauce and couldn't get the bottle open! I had to use some other sauce I had in the house which isn't bad but not as low cal as the one I bought.

The recipe I used for the pork roast is actually a Paula Deen recipe. It worked surprisingly well and had no sugar in it.