I got rid of all the simple carbs and will only eat complex carbs.
Simple carbs: all white flour and anything with white flour in it, including pasta, ALL sugar, all the junk food basically.
Complex carb: I will eat high fiber food, I take flax seed, and flax seed product.
Truthfully, I have given up bread pretty much completely. I will eat low carb fagita's instead of bread.
I personally only drink water, nothing else.
I keep my carb intake at 30g a day, give or take.
I will splurge ounce in awhile but not much and if I do, I am reminded right away why I don't. Friday night husband brought home chinese chashew chicken, comes with brown rice. I over did it. Usually I skip the brown rice or eat very little but I was bad and ate it all. I paid in spades that night. My feet burned so bad and NOTHING would help it. Ya. Not cheating again for awhile.