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. I love yogurt, but it's not really low carb so I've cut it out.

hi greorgia- the market i shop at, ralph's, has their brand of low carb yogurt. i've only seen 3 different flavors: vanilla, strawberry, and raspberry. i usually stock up for the whole week. i think they only have 3net carbs.

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hi greorgia- the market i shop at, ralph's, has their brand of low carb yogurt. i've only seen 3 different flavors: vanilla, strawberry, and raspberry. i usually stock up for the whole week. i think they only have 3net carbs.

I wish we had that around here. I can't even find greek yogurt anymore. When Walmart carried Oikos greek yogurt, I stocked up because they usually didn't have many in stock. They haven't had any in a month, so I'm assuming they don't carry it anymore. Sooo frustrating!

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I saw Greek Yogurt at Walmart and it was like about $1.50 for a 4 oz container. Way too expensive! I buy a all natural no sugar kind and add sf Syrup to it. Good stuff.

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I saw Greek Yogurt at Walmart and it was like about $1.50 for a 4 oz container. Way too expensive! I buy a all natural no sugar kind and add sf Syrup to it. Good stuff.

Yep! The Oikos brand was $1.46 for 5 oz. But since they were the only place in town that had them, I paid it! My town is lacking in the grocery dept. We have walmart, winn dixie, and harvey's....that's it! They're all pretty dinky too if you ask me.

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Why would Greek yogurt be any more expensive than any other. That's crazy and I am 100% Greek.

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Beats me. Maybe the way they make it takes more time or has more ingredients?

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Hi everyone. I was just wondering how many grams of Carb do you limit in your diet daily? I am doing high Protein and low calorie and that seems to work well, but just curious about the carbs. Thank you!

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I was doing between 20-30 during my weight loss stage.

Some days it was way below that. It really depended on

whether or not I went out to eat that day.

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I started at 40 g and have gradually gone up. I'm currently doing about 60-90 now.

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I want to be part of you low carb bander. I am losing too slowly and would like to speed it up a bit and I think low carb would help.

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I have a question for the whole group. Here is my situation...I lost fast for the first 6 months. Then I quit losing and have stabalized for the last 6 months. I still have 50 pounds to lose. I know I would do better on low carb, but I really have a problem eating veggies. I get stuck with lettuce, broccoli, green Beans that aren't mush and carrots. I can't live on meat alone and even have a little trouble with it getting stuck too. I have tried chewing it all up very fine before swallowing. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Can anyone offer some insight into this? Am I overly sensitive? I hate shakes and refuse to live on them.

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide...

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Thank goodness for your comments. I thought I was losing it and today I ask my lap band dr about the inability to eat veggies and meat. I throw it all up no matter how little it is processed. He said it is normal. So I am still eating very minimal real food. shake for Breakfast and I seem to be able to eat fish better than chicken and beef so I usually eat tuna for lunch. Cottage cheese for snack. I cant eat cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelon, green Beans ........ Hope your problam gets better soon.

Cecy

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Yea! Alow carb group! I was banded 1/10/08 and have only lost 42 lbs, that was the first 8 months. Then, weight loss just stopped. I kept having to go back and forth on fills because I couldn't find that spot! So anyway, I started low carb 5 days ago and I've already lost 6 lbs! I have about 100 more to go. So, in your carb counts, do ya'll do net carbs?

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Thank goodness for your comments. I thought I was losing it and today I ask my lap band dr about the inability to eat veggies and meat. I throw it all up no matter how little it is processed. He said it is normal. So I am still eating very minimal real food. shake for breakfast and I seem to be able to eat fish better than chicken and beef so I usually eat tuna for lunch. Cottage cheese for snack. I cant eat cucumbers, tomatoes, watermelon, green Beans ........ Hope your problam gets better soon.

Cecy

I do not agree with your dr. The band is meant to work with hard Protein. You sound too tight to me. If I were you, I would get a slight unfill.

Even having the smallest amount of saline taken out can make a huge difference. It is NOT normal to be able to eat a minimal amount of real food!

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happy to be one of the low carb member =)

this works the best for my wieght loss... but have its complecation as having sever tommy pain from the high acidity on the stomack and the sever reflux i had.. hate it....

starting my day with skimmed yugort and rest of the day ill have 2 protien shacks and some tona ... for dinner ..

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