Ok so I'm a hispanic male and love rice by matters of culture I find out that by cooking an already cooked (soft) 4 oz of rice and making it hard in the microwave, my body will digest it a lot slower pace. I work on the road and sometime is hard to eat healthy so if I'm going to McDonalds I'll ask for the chix sandwich only w/ a drink and remove the bread from it (believe me is hard). I also eat english muffing with eggs, ham, cheese in the morning which is about 30gm carbs. I love smoothies so I sat down with the store manager and we created a special smoothie for me 35gm of carbs against 49 that was before, all by counting the carbs.
I had to learn how to eat peanut butter I considered it nasty, but with a little scarifies is now my favorite snack combined with a low sugar strawberry jam (no bread). I eat tilapia, shrimp, salmon, tuna, all kinds of fish to maintain a low carb diet and so far has work.
This web-site will give you a better understanding of carbs in food, calorieking.com and if you search for glisemic index in food (hopefully I spelled it right) you'll be able to predict how you body will react on certain food item.
Of course always consult with you Dr. Good look.
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