Day 4 of Stuart's Low Carb Diet

Well Saturday was another OK day and it has to be said any snacking (even low carb snacking on bits of carrot) was reduced to just a small portion of a nut mix in the morning and the evening.

At breakfast time it was back on the sausage,bacon and eggs. The problem with saying for certain how many net carbs there are here lies in the fact that the sausages that I bought from the co op in the week didn't state the carbohydrate or fibre content and therefore I am estimating the net carbs. Depending on the meat content to filler content of the sausage will give rise to variations in the carbohydrate content and ultimately the net carbs which may run from 0.5g to 5g per sausage. I suspect that as these sausages taste so good that it may be nearer the top end of the range so I'm going to go to the supermarket today and make sure that I get some sausages which are higher in meat content and have a label with carbohydrates and fibre content on.

For my mid day meal I had a tin of Chunky Chilli Beef soup from Aldi. Now a whole tin of this soup is 14.4g of carbohydrate of which just 8.4g come froms sugars and the fibre content is 12g. I also added two teaspoons of Benefiber to the mix so that the fiber content was pushed up to 15g. So on a pure carb - fiber calculation Iwould have a negative net carb of 0.6 but as 8.4g still comes from sugars then I will take that as the net carb position. (right/wrong any views?)

In the evening I had the ham and cheese sandwich as per the picture posted earlier so that was just one thick slice of ham with two slices of cheddar laid on top. This was then cut in half and folded over to make the sandwich. You need some good thick ham from your butcher for this as the bought prepacked stuff just won't hold the cheese in. Tastes good too!