First, you are doing great! That loss is nothing to be ashamed of! Secondly, do you like spinach, uncooked as salad? I despise iceburg lettuce so I make spinach caesar salads and they rock, plus spinach has more nutrients and a few more carbs, especially baby spinach. Also, before Id add lc bread or tortillas, I would up my carbs with maybe some ricotta or cottage cheese and some berries. Alot of the lc products can and will stall you. Best of luck!

Thanks for the advice and encouragment.

Question. When you [all] say berries, do you mean: Blackberries, blueberries, strawberries? All of the above?

And, yes. I do like uncooked spinach. I try to eat it when I can in my salads.

For the most part, I like all uncooked vegtables. Cauliflower, Broccoli, carrots (though I've avoided them since Dr. Atkins book said to for some reason. Can't remember why I just remember making a mental note to avoid them when I read the book back in March. The sugar maybe?). It's when they are cook or even steamed I disklike them for the most part.

So far, I can eat green beans, though in the can and french cut (wouldn't you know it, Dr. Atkins recommends them fresh, heh), and sauerkraut (not many carbs there). And that's about it as far as cooked veggies go. Just never have been big on them. :\

I can eat salad all day long though. Well, I could. I am getting kind of tired of them now though.

Hi,
I have all the Dr.s books but have never heard of not eating raw veggies in fact he encourages eating veggies cooked or raw. Cauliflower and Broccolli are great raw and more filling that way to me. Carrots are another thing he discourages eating them in any form.
Pat S.

I make a big salad some days to eat with a steak and I have no trouble getting quite a few carbs in it....for instance...

1 cup of lettuce....1 carb
4 oz. tomato........5 carb
4 oz. cucumbers...2 carb
2 oz. onion..........4 carb
4 oz. peppers.......6 carb


Theres 18 carbs before subtracting for fiber and its just one good sized salad...I use a food scale to be as accurate as possible.