Ugh! Such misunderstanding by people

Keliandra

Happy people don't try to purposefully hurt other people. I stay out of the main forums, even tho I had a good post sharing my medical stats from low-carbing.

FIT_Goat

I cook for all of us and do the dishes too, which probably is the only thing that prevents my wife from killing me out of frustration over my diet. I rarely eat what they're eating. I just cook my steak or burgers while I make their food. Then we eat together. The kiddo usually has something one of us is having. So, he may have a chunk off my my steak with some rice and vegetables. If my wife is having pasta or something, he might have some of that.

My wife tried to do the low-carb thing, she didn't last. She loves carbs too much. Right now she's doing a calorie-restricted thing. I'm not a huge proponent of it, but I will support her through it.

I would love if my whole family would eat the same way as I do. It would be so much easier to just cook three steaks or a pile of burgers and no sides of vegetables. It won't happen though. They tolerate my choices. That's pretty much it.

GSD_Mama

My family eats carbs/sweets/you name it. I just cook my keto like a regular dinner. I make starches for the fam (pasta/rice/etc), they eat regular bread and i eat my home made. Sometimes they eat what i make without anything else extra. Lots of veggies and spinach (creamed cheesy one that is)

nill4me

sweetteadrinker2 wrote: »

I tried a pill pocket that was bacon flavored on a dare once, oddly textured but it did taste like bacon.

haha

tru2one

FIT_Goat wrote: »

I cook for all of us and do the dishes too, which probably is the only thing that prevents my wife from killing me out of frustration over my diet. I rarely eat what they're eating. I just cook my steak or burgers while I make their food. Then we eat together. The kiddo usually has something one of us is having. So, he may have a chunk off my my steak with some rice and vegetables. If my wife is having pasta or something, he might have some of that.

My wife tried to do the low-carb thing, she didn't last. She loves carbs too much. Right now she's doing a calorie-restricted thing. I'm not a huge proponent of it, but I will support her through it.

I would love if my whole family would eat the same way as I do. It would be so much easier to just cook three steaks or a pile of burgers and no sides of vegetables. It won't happen though. They tolerate my choices. That's pretty much it.

Tolerating your choices is good. Much better than having a battle on your hands. Keep leading by example and when your wife gets too hangry with CICO, she may realize her carbs aren't loving her back. ;-)

sweetteadrinker2

FIT_Goat wrote: »

I cook for all of us and do the dishes too, which probably is the only thing that prevents my wife from killing me out of frustration over my diet.

LOL, the carb-lovers cook at my house, and do the dishes. It's the only thing that keeps me from killing them out of the same frustration.

smuller73

I have been lucky that my husband has been totally supportive and eats pretty much what I am eating (although he does add the odd slice of bread) My kids usually eat the same too but I will add Pasta or another Carb occasionally if they want it or if they won't like what I have made. My eldest daughter (she's 8) has decided that she prefers my Cauliflower mash to mashed potatoes anyway and keeps asking when I am making it next.
I have had a bit of a backlash at work though. A few people have joined me on the low carb journey as it has become very popular in South Africa with many restaurants adding low carb options to their menus. We have taken to avoiding mentioning it in front of anyone else in the office because they seem to have a million opinions about the "diet" we are on.
Well if 9.6kg down in 6 weeks eating wonderful, delicious food and more calories than I was eating when I just did calorie restriction, isn't proof enough that it works I don't know what is.

KnitOrMiss

Last night, I made pork loin two ways, and broccoli with butter and cheese. My guy was in hog heaven. He had a few small slices of bread with his meal, but I don't think he even ate them. One was with an apple butter/balsamic glaze (I touched my finger to the apple butter and knew it was way way too sweet for me, so I looked up a recipe for mustard glaze pork with pan gravy. The gravy was a total flop because I had to wing it (ran out of one ingredient), but the pork was amazing, and so low carb, it was awesome! So, as long as I don't tell him no on something he wants to add, and I make nifty new things that knock his socks off, he won't complain much...

He did actually say last night that he thought this could help him health-wise, but I explained that he would have to give up his beloved Pepsi for it to work for him the way it does for me, and that stopped the conversation completely. I wasn't trying to sell him, just explaining that it wouldn't work the same. He has himself convinced that he "manages" his health conditions by medicating with sugar directly. He couldn't be more wrong, but I just run into a brick wall if I try to convince him. I just hope as he continues to eat less carbs in general that it will alter his taste buds to where the Pepsi and such is less attractive.