If you can have 20g carbs daily and 15 should come from vegebles, where does the other 5 come from? Even if I eat my entire 4 oz cheese, that still leaves one extra mystery carb.

I spend mine on cream for my coffee, Splenda (1/2 carb per packet), occasionally some sour cream, that kind of thing. Mainly dairy.

Even sugar-free gum has carbs...like 1 carb...I usually chew half a piece at a time.

Well let's see--so far today I've had 2 eggs and 1 turkey sausage patty (1 carb plus however many are in 2 eggs) and 1/2 a chicken salad-salad i.e. a salad with 2 scoops of chicken salad on top so that was maybe 1-1 1/2 cups vegebles. Dinner tonight is beef stew--no potatos but a few carrots which I will pick around. I still feel like I am under the 20 mark though. And I sure as heck am not hungry even though the monster in my belly almost always wakes up at 4:00.
Is 20 a goal also or just a limit? Oh heck, nevermind. I'll look it up in my book tonight.