:confused: New need help

[nawchem]

Is this right. For all meals you eat however much of the allowed veges and eat about the same amount of protein? I'm trying to keep it simple, I've seen on this site the 4 carb rule and am confused do you subtract fiber? Should I even count carbs? Does that mean I need to know exactly how much I'm eating, as in measuring the vegetables?

I just have the lifeplan book, but didn't see any of that stuff in there.

Also confused about eating nuts and seeds when hungry. Do you have to match that with vegetables or is this a pure emergency idea?

thanks Nancy

[Zuleikaa]

The nuts, seeds, beef jerky is usually for emergency meals/snacks. You don't count carbs if the food is on the approved meat veggie list. You just go with the limits.

The carb count is for additional things like salad dressings or other foods. Then the limit is no more than 4 grams of carbs per serving and watch serving sizes. Generally some people try to keep CMs under 10 carbs total, if you choose to count carbs. Generally the guidelines are 4-6 ounces of cooked protein and 4 cups raw or 2 cups cooked or combination of low carb veggies. As you can see that's a lot of veggies. The veggie you have to watch is tomato. You are limited to 1/4 raw tomato with any CM meal. Generally low carb veggies are the same as induction. Broccoli needs to be watched. Some people react to it, some people don't.

Hope this helps.

Oh nuts and seeds. Don't use any with over 4 grams carbs minus fiber.