Bob's 3 Carb Lunch

OK so we are continuing the discussion from yesterday about my 3 carb lunch. If you look at the food I listed as a template, it actually looks fairly large. Especially if you were to pour the water into 3 separate glasses. This visualization is important for your brain to process. You are getting a 3 carb meal that is going to be intellectually satisfying to your cerebrum size wise!!!



Also I would like for you to fully appreciate the amount of carb deficits that you are accruing on your (2 out of 3) egg days combined together with your 3 carb lunch. Ladies you save 3 carbs for breakfast and 1 carb for lunch for a total of 4 carbs deficit. Men save 4 carbs for breakfast and 2 carbs for lunch for a total of 6 carbs. You may not realize this yet, but the deficits you are building is... like totally radically huge dude. For you ladies, you save the equivalent of 1 meal which is a 1/3 reduction of your total meal budget for a whole day. Men you save even more than 1 whole meal budget.



Since our budget in the plan is already way below what you were consuming before we started this blessed blog, and now you are becoming a budget beater, you are primed to start to see some very dramatic results in the very near future.



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So what about starchy vegetables? This is something that I have forgotten to discuss with you prior, so I will do it now. Certain veggies are fairly high in starch and actually need to be counted as a carb portion when consumed. They are still good for you, but you still have to count em. They are peas, corn, potatoes (which we already know about) and "winter" squash, (zucchini's are not winter so they don't count.) You may have noticed that I do have pea pods present in my power garden salads, but I don't put them in very often and when I do, I use them very sparingly so I personally don't count them as a carb choice. However if you are going to do a full serving of one of these types of veggies such as corn for example. It's not free, it must be counted as a carb.



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9 " Plate:



I now want to talk with you a little more about dinner portions to be able to give you a visual idea of what you want to target you evening meal portions to be. I have alluded to this already for your Easter dinner but I want to give you a graphic to help reinforce this concept.

I still would like you to have a dinner salad 50% of the time in addition to your lunch salad. This will help you to keep your green firmly established. But on the other days, I would like you to incorporate stir fryed veggies or 2 different veggie servings to make up 50% of your plate. Remember to only occasionally do the veggies I listed in the paragraph above. 25% goes to starchy foods such as potatoes or pasta. The final 25% goes towards the protein of your choice.

Also understand that this is a 9" plate, that means it is the small one that you have in your cupboards, not the large one.

You can click on the graphic to enlarge it to see it better.