Hi everyone! I just started yesterday, Monday, on the Schwarzbein Principle. I am a little confused. I read the book but am uncertain if I should be counting the carbs in salad dressings (Kraft regular Caesar dressing). Can I have sugar free jello? This is a staple in our house because my 7 year old daughter is a diabetic. For supper tonight, I had a bowl of chili and caesar salad - is there any carbs in the chili?? I am just not certain how to count the carbs on some of this stuff. I am accustomed to counting carbs with my daughter being diabetic but this seems a little different. Is the ground beef in the chili enough for a protein and what about the fat??? Help!!

I think you should try to go to fitday.com,i think it helps when it comes to counting the carbs.
I use to think i was doing fine and couldn`t understand why my weight didn`t drop,when i checked with fitday.com i was having too many carbs,
I hope this helps you to control your carbs and what you eat.
Good luck

Fatima

1. Salad dressing - just don't use the light stuff! Most salad dressing is pretty low carb, but if you buy low-fat salad dressing the company usually replaces fat with sugar and it becomes pretty carby.

2.Chili - if it is a chili made with kidney beans (or any beans for that matter) then it will be pretty high carb...those beans are a good source protein but they are high carb too.

3. Ground beef is an excellent source of protein -- and don't worry about the fat...its your friend! Fat helps keep you feeling satisfied after a meal and fat doesn't make you fat!!!

Hope this helps!

Lisa

Thanks so much ladies - I didn't think too much about the Chili and had a heaping, I mean heaping, bowl of it. I had a caesar salad without croutons and didn't have any bread so maybe I am not too much over. Silly question - how do I get the message icons???

Which message icons? Do you mean the avatars where we have our pictures under the user name?

I mean the little smiley faces etc.... How do I put them in my message??? I am sooooo computer illiterate!

Ah! Those are called emoticons or smilies...when you reply...like I'm doing right now...I'm typing in this box and to the left are "Smilies" just click on the one you want and it will be inserted into your document.

Good luck

Well wasn't that Thank you!

Ooops, not sure what the heck I did there. I clicked on the icon after I typed "easy" but "easy" didn't show up??

LOL...keep practicing...its a bit wonky (yes, that's my technical term of the day!)

Lisa