Take out

One of my biggest fears was that I wouldn't be able to eat out or get take-out much on this diet. Not that we do either very often, but being pregnant and having a toddler means there are some nights when I just plain don't want to cook.

For example, my first day on this new diet, I was so hungry and weak in the morning (probably from not having enough protein the day before) that I barely had energy to make lunch. I didn't want to deal with making dinner. So I had Thom bring home Daphne's Greek Cafe. I got the chicken kabob plate. It comes with rice, which I measured to make sure I only had 2/3 of a cup and it turned out that is exactly how much was included. I ate the rice, the chicken and veggies that were on the skewers, and the Greek salad, but gave the pita to my son. And I ate a peach with it to get my 3rd carb serving. Post dinner blood sugar level was 110! So my first non-home cooked meal worked out great.

We had been going to In-N-Out about twice a month recently. I ordered a cheeseburger and fries and Thom, Aaron and I split a milkshake. I'm still trying to figure out how to make that work since it is our favorite place to eat out as a family. I'm thinking I can order my burger protein style which reduces the carbs from 39g to 11g (oddly it also reduces the sodium by over 300 mg - who knew the buns were so salty?), skip my share of the milkshake, and just steal some of Thom's fries or only eat half an order (one serving has 54 g of carbs). And then I can either order milk (maybe pretend it is a milkshake) or bring some fresh fruit for my other carbs. Too bad a strawberry milkshake wouldn't count as my milk and/or fruit carbs.