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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You cut out carbs in refined grains, potatoes, and fruit, but you ate an apparently large portion of pulled pork and baked beans.  BBQ sauce has a ton of sugar, typically.  So no, you probably won't lose weight with this approach if you're not being intentional about checking labels for ingredients and monitoring portion sizes/calories.  The other days have fewer red flags except they seem unsustainable.[/quote]

The pulled pork actually didn't have sauce on it, the sauce was on the side, and I didn't have any on the pork, although there was sauce on the beans.  It was a work event, and choices were limited.  Everything else seemed worst so I used a general sense of glycemic index and carbs to guide my choices.  So, beans which at least had fiber to lower the GI seemed like a better choice than a roll or a slice of cake, the corn/tomato/cuke salad seemed like it would have less carbs than the potato salad or pasta salad.

The know that many of the diet plans would have said to bring my own food and eat it before hand, or to wait and eat when I got home at 10 p.m., but in my experience those options aren't realistic.

I guess what I'm asking is whether using GI and a general idea of carb counts to make choices is a useful strategy if I'm not in a position to actually count carbs or be strict about macro ratios.  And if just eating 2 - 3 times a day is reasonable, even if those 2 - 3 times aren't set apart in a pattern such as you'd see in intermittent fasting.  [/quote]

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