Light Bulb Moment

[TabyTaby]

Okay, I think I found why my weight loss has stunted! Are you ready? I think it's because there are TWENTY carbs in LIME JUICE!!! I use lime juice as seasoning, I saute just about everything in lime juice...I've even used it as salad dressing! My goodness!!! I just looked it up on a whim...it makes much more sense now...just when I thought I was being silly looking it up! Guess I learned my lesson, I will be looking everything up from here on out. GEEZ. Okay everyone have a great day!

[Doug Varrieur]

In most cases hidden carbs are the culprit behind weight loss stalls 

[TabyTaby]

Right Doug? I never would have thought lime juice...I love it...go figure. Oh well, I can taste skinny around the corner!!! I did lose another pound...down to 223, hoping to see the two-teens next week sometime! That would be cool, even if it's only 219! I'm so mad at that lime juice. Someone needs to mandate that they post nutrition labels on everything, even fresh fruits and veggies I'm like, why am I the only fat vegan around this place? LOL that 20 carbs is for a whole cup, but I use probably 1/4 to a half when I use it...so that's still going over most of the time.

[downeast]

Very interesting. The bottled lime juice says 0 carbs - but that's per teaspoon. If there are 20 carbs in a cup, and 48 teaspoons in a cup then each teaspoon of lime juice actually has .42 carbs - not zero. I've been working on it being a ZERO carb product.  So that is why they list the serving size as a teaspoon, so that it comes in under one carb and they can write it off as zero. I  would rather see a label that says 5 carbs per 1/4 cup. Thanks for enlightening me about these hidden carbs.

[TabyTaby]

You are welcome! I found it on a carb-counter...one of them. One said 15 grams, one said 20...and I use the little fake lime looking thing you find in the produce section, but the website just said bottled or fresh, and they were both high. I couldn't believe it. The website also had a color coded system to share it's good points and bad points, lime juice had all good points except one...and it had a bad color for high SUGAR! So that told me it was probably right. *Sigh...another favorite of mine.

[Rena]

Did you check the Walden Farms website for salad dressings yet? I looked at some of the labels and if I'm remembering correctly, some of them were listed as vegan. It's worth a try, especially since you eat so many veggies for your regular diet.

I have a bottle of lemon juice in the fridge that says 0 carbs. I wonder if that's even accurate.

[downeast]

Lemon juice also has 20 carbs per cup, so it's labelled exactly as the lime juice. See my post above. Zero is only "accurate" because a tsp is such a tiny amount it has only .42 carbs, so it can be labelled as 0 carbs.

[TabyTaby]

Hey Rena! I didn't check the walden farms because I found two dressings, you and someone else suggested, Paul Newman's! One only has one carb and one has like two carbs! When I get tired of the lack of diversity I'll probably check it out! Thanks again Rena and Down East! <3