To pasta or not to pasta?? That is the question

Ok well I am two months out and according to my guide I can have up to a 1/4 cup of pasta. I am making my tasty spaghetti tonight. Question is which should I use? Whole wheat or regular? I dont get alot of carbs in during the day and I loathe the texture of wheat pasta. What to do, what to do. Advice?

I'd skip it.  A side if anything, not the meal. 

Well, whole wheat is healthier, but if you can't stand it, then I'd go with regular.  I'd just try a bite or two, though, to see how it goes.  A lot of people have trouble tolerating pasta.  I can eat about 1/3 cup now, at more than 4.5 years out, but it feels heavy and uncomfortable in my pouch.

See, I think I will end up skipping it. I am a reformed carb junkie and I am afraid lol. I know my plan allows it but I dont know if I can allow it.

If you can skip it I think I would, this  is how those sneaky carbs get back in our lives,  this may be gross to some but I like spag sauce over cottage cheese, I know right, weird huh, you are  doing great, !!! DEnise

If you know carbs are your weakness, I'd skip it. Better safe than sorry right?

I have carb addict issues as well. And pasta just didn't sit right after surgery (which for me was lucky) so I have stayed away from it. When we have spaghetti I have sauce in a bowl. I call it "spa-chili". LOL My DH likes to add cannellini beans to the sauce. So technically, if you change that bean to a red and update the spices...it's chili. So that's the way I started looking at it. A new form of chili...spa-chili. Sauce is the best part anyway. I think the pasta is just filler.

I toss a bit of shredded parm on the top and it's quite yummy. Even without the cannellini beans I still refer to it as spa-chili and it the sauce straight up. Or put it over a bit of cottage cheese. It's like lasagna then without the noodles.

Serve it over spaghetti squash.  It is pretty good.  

I use spaghetti squash also. Love it.

I don't bother.  I don't like how it sits with me, though I do use the high protein wheat version.   I just put my sauce and homemade meatballs over whatever veggie I'm making.  Last night it was eggplant, but spaghetti squash or zucchini both work great.  I even made lasagna a few weeks ago using thin but wide slices of zucchini.  It was delish and I didn't miss the pasta at all.