Stuarts Low Carb Diet - Day 15

Its day 15 of the diet and whilst not being overly bad yesterday it wasn't quite a tip top day.

For starters I have a meal replacement shake for breakfast instead of the usual whey protein shake. The problem with this is that the meal replacement shake is 15g carbs more than the protein shake.

Again I had a salad around 11.00am and this time it was beef and corned beef. I then went out for a walk at lunchtime and ended up in Boots where I bought some Atkins bars and I had one of these around 2.00pm. These bars claim to be 2.9g of carbs because they have altered the net carb formula to include taking off Sugar Alcohols (Polyols). Apparently there is some debate about whether to do this for net carbs as Polyols affect people in different ways and for some there will be a net carb of 2.9g and for others it will be net carb of nearly 18g. I think I'll put the remaining bars in the cupboard for now and maybe bet them back out in a week or two.

Then at around 3.30pm I had a cheese and ham salad which kept me going until the evening meal which was a roast chicken dinner with 3 roast potatoes (eek). I then got watching some TV until late and had a packet of peanuts whilst watching which probably had about 9 net carbs more than if I had had Brazils or Walnuts.

I had a delivery yesterday of Healthy Carb Cookbook for Dummies which is a very easy read and has loads of great tips and recipes in it. We'll be trying some of them out in the coming weeks.