Low Carb Day with a Dessert and Snack

The biggest rule I follow on my low carb diet is to stay between 30 - 50 carbs a day.  I find doing too many days below 30 leaves me not feeling my best.  So I try for 30 and if I'm over a little, that's okay.

Snacking isn't something I do much of anymore.  I used to try to do those diets where you eat six little meals a day, didn't work for me.  But I do have some occasions where I need something to make it to the next meal.  Usually this happens when I've done some carb splurging on an earlier meal. I have found a little snack at Trader Joe's which comes in handy on these days: Trader Joe's Roasted Seaweed Snack.  1 carb!  They have become my "chips".

I try to monitor my carbs to be less than 10 for breakfast, 10 for lunch and then less than 10 for dinner. I find that dinner is actually the lowest carb meal for me.  For example last night I had Trader Joe's Pork Belly and Asparagus for 3 carbs. 

Let's take a look at yesterday's meals which earned me a dessert and snack. 

Cream Cheese Pancakes with Whipped Cream for breakfast: 3.5 Carbs

2 cups of coffee with Whipped Cream:  2

Mini Pita and Tzatziki Dip snack

2 cups of Spinach:  2 

Turkey Bacon 4 slices: 0

Parmesan cheese 1/4 cup: 1

Olive Oil and Vinegar dressing: 0
SNACK1 mini pita: 7
SNACK 2 tbsp of Tzatziki dip: 2

Trader Joe's Pork Belly: 0 

Asparagus spears: 3

A glass of Pinot Gris: 3.3

Lotsa water 6-8 glasses

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Carbometer for the day: 23.8 carbs

I had some room left to get to 30 carbs.  I spent them this way:

Cream Cheese pancakes with Belgium chocolate .325 ounce or 1/2 a square of 7 oz bar, and whipped Cream  9.5 carbs

Carbometer for the day after dessert: 33.3