Maintenance

Here are a few things that can be added when on a maintenance low carb diet.

FRUITS:

(limit: one piece of fruit every four hours.

No fruit juices
(except the grapefruit juice if on Mayo diet)

Apples
Apricots
Blackberries (1/2 cup limit)
Blueberries (1/2 cup limit)
Boysenberries
Casaba melon (1 wedge limit)
Grapefruit
Honeydew melon (1 wedge limit)
Lemons
Limes
Nectarines
Oranges
Papaya
Peaches
Pears
Plums
Raspberries
Strawberries
Tangerines
Tomato juice
V8 Juice

VEGETABLES:

Artichokes
Beets
Carrots
Onions
Peas
Pumpkin
Squash, winter
Turnip

NUTS:

Cashews
Peanuts
Soy Nuts

DAIRY PRODUCTS:

Whole, non-fat, low-fat milk and buttermilk

DESSERTS:

Sugarless diet puddings (1/2 cup a day limit)

BREADS:

Three slices a day of sugar-free white, whole wheat,
sourdough or light rye. No more than two slices at one time.

MISCELLANEOUS (Liberal):

2 tacos or 2 enchiladas (2 corn tortillas only)
Carob powder
Flour, gluten or soy only
Gravy made with gluten or soy flour only
One cup popcorn (popped)
Puffed rice, shredded wheat or other sugar-free cereals
Wheat germ

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