To make sure everything on the next round of bloodwork comes out OK, the doc gave me strict orders to limit sugar intake and make sure I keep my carb level to fewer than 40 grams per day.

Now he told me that in the middle of the day yesterday, after I had already eaten more than half the food I eat in a normal day, so I decided I'd put that practice into effect today. (To be read: I went home yesterday and ate a big bowl of chocolate ice cream topped off with whip cream and peanut butter sauce because who knows when, if ever, I will be able to have such a yummy treat again. Seriously, I'm not being melodramatic, it's a possibility.)

But today, I'm all about following the doctor's orders.

I've realized that 40 grams of carbs is not a lot. For example, a single serving of whole wheat pasta has 41 grams of carbs. A piece of wheat bread has 12 grams of carbs. Kellog's All-Bran (the cereal I used to eat) has 20 grams of carbs (For the record, 13 of them are fiber).

I can only eat 40 in an entire day. Yeeesh that's tough.

Here's my plan: Two eggs for breakfast (about 2 carbs total), cottage cheese for the morning snack (8 carbs), salad with fat free Italian dressing and chicken or tuna for lunch (4 carbs in the dressing, 7 carbs from salad) and then chicken/fish and veggies for dinner with the option of celery sticks and hummus as a snack too (5 g).