Things I hate on LCHF
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lindseykytti wrote: »karebear5891 wrote: »Things I hate about LCHF:
No ice cream.
Very limited alcohol, particularly beer, hard cider and vodka with cranberry juice (only have a very occasional glass of wine)
Limited fruit.
No French fries.
Buy an ice cream maker and make your own with stevia. Best $20 bucks I've spent on this diet!
I have an ice cream maker that I've never used. Too lazy to do it, I reckon...as much as I love to bake and cook, you'd think I'd make carb friendly ice cream by now.
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MaryDeLoria wrote: »RowdysLady wrote: »The list is short:
BPC with coffee grounds in it. I bet every third pot the filter folds over and I drink grounds. I try so hard every morning to get the filter perfect in there alas...I drink grounds 33% of the time. Whyforhowcome, I ask, whyforhowcome? I never drank coffee before this WOE. I may have to switch to tea...or hint around for a Keurig
I haven't read the whole thread yet, so someone else probably already mentioned this, but I'd think about switching to a reusable coffee filter. Amazon has them for about $6. They replace the paper filters. Nice things: no waste, no paper filter taste (chemical ick), easy to clean. I've had the same one for years & they hold up well.
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@Sarahb29 Another 'baked' oatmeal I ran across... I believe the baked oatmeal recipe you're asking about is made with coconut flakes, honey, cinnamon, eggs, and coconut milk or almond milk, may even call for cream. It's delicious.2
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I have found substitutes for most of the things I loved.3
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Thanks guys! Yes, there are many substitutes to keep me happy.
Starbuck's haters unite!
Oatmeal recipe, hurray! Ruled.me is one of my favourite websites. fathead pizza works for us.
I do miss the crunch of fruits like apples or pears. I do slip them in when I can and stay true to the macros I am trying for but that is very rare/0 -
canadjineh wrote: »(...)
I will have proper handmade gelato a couple times in the summer and just suck it up about carbs, but for me any other ice cream is gross due to yucky texture & lack of flavour.
This is me too. I prefer to have an occasional special treat and eat the real thing. I can eat a small portion now and be happy with it. Real artisanal ice cream is well, "cream" based so very high in fat and not so much in sugar. I usually go for dark chocolate, not fruit. Or I make my own and freeze it as small fat bombs.
The industrial ice cream is the one that is full of junk and that I avoid like the plague (and all other carbage).
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I don't crave bread anymore but I really, really miss bagels. I miss Wetzels Pretzels. I miss Cinnabon. I miss fro-yo.
Just the act of going to yogurt land and the fun of choosing the flavors, toppings and hanging out with loved ones. I miss that.
I miss bananas. I miss Cocoa Puffs cereal.
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JTyler2016 wrote: »Things I hate about LCHF...
4. People seeing me eat pancakes for breakfast at work (I do shift work so I call my lunch break my breakfast) and saying, "That's not low carb!" Well, really the jokes on them cause I think pancakes made with eggs and cream cheese and topped with a good SF syrup are better than actual pancakes and they are definitely low carb.0 -
Can I get the recipe for those?1
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I do miss bread, I make a great sour dough bread
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PamamaJane wrote: »Someone please pinch me. I think I just died and went to heaven.
Let us know how it is (both the dish and heaven!).1 -
The things I hate about LCHF aren't really so much about LCHF as reactions to it.
I hate ordering an iced coffee plain with ONLY coffee and cream and getting a syrupy sugar fest. Then when I take it back they can't wrap their heads around no sweeteners...at all. This usually happens at McDonald's and sometimes Starbucks. Dunkin always has my back! lol
I hate when people you never see eat veggies that aren't French fries suddenly become concerned about your veggie intake when they hear LCHF. Like their "normal" diet is full of veggies. I actually ate LESS before and the ones I ate where mostly starchy.
Now that I've been keto almost a year I get irrationally angry when I read "healthy living" articles about how important carbs are. I'm kind of the same way with the hundreds of articles about how it's a stupid fad to cut out gluten. Mainly because both types of articles talk about the essential vitamins you get from carbs and/or gluten! Have these people heard of fruits and veggies? You know where vitamins occur naturally and aren't stripped and added to back to your fluffy white bread? I have Celiac and have been without gluten for probably 7 years. How am I alive? lol
Not really a hate but it super amuses me when people are eating junk like donuts or store bought cakes and apologize to me because I can't eat it. I don't think they can believe that I really don't want it.
I've always been a proponent of veggies.
I have a sister who's diabetic. I had a conversation with her where she proudly boasted that she had been eating her veggies.
So I asked her...what veggies have you had today?
She said "Well, today doesn't count so far, because I had to rush breakfast, so I picked up a biscuit on the way here" (we were at a baby shower, at 1:00 in the afternoon)
I said, "Ok, fair enough...what veggies did you have yesterday"
Her eyes lit up and she said "I had green beans with my KFC for dinner last night"
So her idea of eating her veggies was one serving of green beans in two days.3 -
Somebody mentioned missing crispy salty things. I am making kale chips these days in my dehydrator. They are delicious. Also I can make jerky but am not completely happy with the results yet. It isn't chewy or leathery enough. I do like being able to control the ingredients, as some jerky has sugar added.
I miss black licorice. I know that's weird.1 -
Cryren8972 wrote: »I have a sister who's diabetic. I had a conversation with her where she proudly boasted that she had been eating her veggies.
So I asked her...what veggies have you had today?
She said "Well, today doesn't count so far, because I had to rush breakfast, so I picked up a biscuit on the way here" (we were at a baby shower, at 1:00 in the afternoon)
I said, "Ok, fair enough...what veggies did you have yesterday"
Her eyes lit up and she said "I had green beans with my KFC for dinner last night"
So her idea of eating her veggies was one serving of green beans in two days.
Good God. Does anyone in this forum have a diabetic sister who's NOT in total denial?6 -
KetoneKaren wrote: »Somebody mentioned missing crispy salty things. I am making kale chips these days in my dehydrator. They are delicious. Also I can make jerky but am not completely happy with the results yet. It isn't chewy or leathery enough. I do like being able to control the ingredients, as some jerky has sugar added.
I miss black licorice. I know that's weird.
Honestly, it had been so many years since I had pork rinds, until about four days ago. I think I am so in love again, that I'll be fine on crunchy saltiness for a good bit. And when that finally wains? Back to ruled for some of his different chip recipes. I'm interested in trying a lot of those anyway, so it might be sooner than later.1 -
Cryren8972 wrote: »I have a sister who's diabetic. I had a conversation with her where she proudly boasted that she had been eating her veggies.
So I asked her...what veggies have you had today?
She said "Well, today doesn't count so far, because I had to rush breakfast, so I picked up a biscuit on the way here" (we were at a baby shower, at 1:00 in the afternoon)
I said, "Ok, fair enough...what veggies did you have yesterday"
Her eyes lit up and she said "I had green beans with my KFC for dinner last night"
So her idea of eating her veggies was one serving of green beans in two days.
Good God. Does anyone in this forum have a diabetic sister who's NOT in total denial?
@RalfLott - For me, it's not a sister - but my mother and my aunt. And they both know better, but still believe it's "too hard" and they say, "it works for you, but nothing works for me," or "it's too many things to change at once!" not realizing that by changing all the things, you regain a control you probably haven't had in decades! (hugs) to all of us who just want to tease/dare them to try it for a week!!! Life changing, but just like you can't force someone to stop smoking or whatever, when they're up against that wall, when they're ready, YOU BE READY to engage with them to help... It's all we can do, right? Live by example, share without pressure, and be ready when they finally get there?3 -
KetoneKaren wrote: »Somebody mentioned missing crispy salty things. I am making kale chips these days in my dehydrator. They are delicious. Also I can make jerky but am not completely happy with the results yet. It isn't chewy or leathery enough. I do like being able to control the ingredients, as some jerky has sugar added.
I miss black licorice. I know that's weird.
Let me introduce you to my buddy Fennel. Black licorice taste while still being low carb friendly. 5 -
Also, regarding salty and crispy -- roasted chicken skin!
https://sarahfragoso.com/easy-and-amazing-roast-chicken/3 -
KnitOrMiss wrote: »Cryren8972 wrote: »I have a sister who's diabetic. I had a conversation with her where she proudly boasted that she had been eating her veggies.
So I asked her...what veggies have you had today?
She said "Well, today doesn't count so far, because I had to rush breakfast, so I picked up a biscuit on the way here" (we were at a baby shower, at 1:00 in the afternoon)
I said, "Ok, fair enough...what veggies did you have yesterday"
Her eyes lit up and she said "I had green beans with my KFC for dinner last night"
So her idea of eating her veggies was one serving of green beans in two days.
Good God. Does anyone in this forum have a diabetic sister who's NOT in total denial?
@RalfLott - For me, it's not a sister - but my mother and my aunt. And they both know better, but still believe it's "too hard" and they say, "it works for you, but nothing works for me," or "it's too many things to change at once!" not realizing that by changing all the things, you regain a control you probably haven't had in decades! (hugs) to all of us who just want to tease/dare them to try it for a week!!! Life changing, but just like you can't force someone to stop smoking or whatever, when they're up against that wall, when they're ready, YOU BE READY to engage with them to help... It's all we can do, right? Live by example, share without pressure, and be ready when they finally get there?
Well, it's a mystery, huh.
You and I have no problem passing the broom closet and not guzzling an open bottle of Drano, but noooooo.... Diabetic sisters (mothers, aunts, spouses, evil twins, etc.) can't walk through a grocery store without veering down the HAZMAT aisle and having a family-size box of Twinkies leap into their carts and then their mouths the instant they leave the store.....
(So whose is the alternate universe....?)2 -
KnitOrMiss wrote: »Cryren8972 wrote: »I have a sister who's diabetic. I had a conversation with her where she proudly boasted that she had been eating her veggies.
So I asked her...what veggies have you had today?
She said "Well, today doesn't count so far, because I had to rush breakfast, so I picked up a biscuit on the way here" (we were at a baby shower, at 1:00 in the afternoon)
I said, "Ok, fair enough...what veggies did you have yesterday"
Her eyes lit up and she said "I had green beans with my KFC for dinner last night"
So her idea of eating her veggies was one serving of green beans in two days.
Good God. Does anyone in this forum have a diabetic sister who's NOT in total denial?
@RalfLott - For me, it's not a sister - but my mother and my aunt. And they both know better, but still believe it's "too hard" and they say, "it works for you, but nothing works for me," or "it's too many things to change at once!" not realizing that by changing all the things, you regain a control you probably haven't had in decades! (hugs) to all of us who just want to tease/dare them to try it for a week!!! Life changing, but just like you can't force someone to stop smoking or whatever, when they're up against that wall, when they're ready, YOU BE READY to engage with them to help... It's all we can do, right? Live by example, share without pressure, and be ready when they finally get there?
Well, it's a mystery, huh.
You and I have no problem passing the broom closet and not guzzling an open bottle of Drano, but noooooo.... Diabetic sisters (mothers, aunts, spouses, evil twins, etc.) can't walk through a grocery store without veering down the HAZMAT aisle and having a family-size box of Twinkies leap into their carts and then their mouths the instant they leave the store.....
(So whose is the alternate universe....?)
What kills me the most, honestly, is that they all go on about my willpower and strength.
I keep trying to tell them I HAVE NONE. Everything in your life changes when you break the hold carbs hold over your sanity. I was an addict of a ridiculous nature. No one saw it - or not enough to say anything, and I still relapse. But it's not about strength. It's about making a decision, jumping off the deep end, and having faith to TRY something...
And with my aunt, it made me so sad (I wanted to cry), the last time she posted a pic on FB about her "haul" from the grocery store (months ago), she must have been in a blood sugar low, because she had not one box of Twinkies, but sincerely about 10-20 packages of sweets, treats, bread, and all the things she knows she needs to cut out - "but she can do it in stages and only have a little each day." MY LEFT FOOT!2 -
My father actually told my mother (they're both type 2) that I have more willpower than they do, while sitting right in front of me! I tried to explain that it comes down to just making a choice, but they choose to not understand. I've quit trying to make them understand. They choose to continue eating the foods they "love". My choice has been to stop putting food in my body that doesn't love me!.
I've grown to hating wasting my breath about it! I choose to live by example at this point!
I know my family is waiting for me to just gain it all back, as I, and they, have done in the past! Then they can see the difference with this woe!5 -
KnitOrMiss wrote: »KnitOrMiss wrote: »Cryren8972 wrote: »I have a sister who's diabetic. I had a conversation with her where she proudly boasted that she had been eating her veggies.
So I asked her...what veggies have you had today?
She said "Well, today doesn't count so far, because I had to rush breakfast, so I picked up a biscuit on the way here" (we were at a baby shower, at 1:00 in the afternoon)
I said, "Ok, fair enough...what veggies did you have yesterday"
Her eyes lit up and she said "I had green beans with my KFC for dinner last night"
So her idea of eating her veggies was one serving of green beans in two days.
Good God. Does anyone in this forum have a diabetic sister who's NOT in total denial?
@RalfLott - For me, it's not a sister - but my mother and my aunt. And they both know better, but still believe it's "too hard" and they say, "it works for you, but nothing works for me," or "it's too many things to change at once!" not realizing that by changing all the things, you regain a control you probably haven't had in decades! (hugs) to all of us who just want to tease/dare them to try it for a week!!! Life changing, but just like you can't force someone to stop smoking or whatever, when they're up against that wall, when they're ready, YOU BE READY to engage with them to help... It's all we can do, right? Live by example, share without pressure, and be ready when they finally get there?
Well, it's a mystery, huh.
You and I have no problem passing the broom closet and not guzzling an open bottle of Drano, but noooooo.... Diabetic sisters (mothers, aunts, spouses, evil twins, etc.) can't walk through a grocery store without veering down the HAZMAT aisle and having a family-size box of Twinkies leap into their carts and then their mouths the instant they leave the store.....
(So whose is the alternate universe....?)
What kills me the most, honestly, is that they all go on about my willpower and strength.
I keep trying to tell them I HAVE NONE. Everything in your life changes when you break the hold carbs hold over your sanity. I was an addict of a ridiculous nature. No one saw it - or not enough to say anything, and I still relapse. But it's not about strength. It's about making a decision, jumping off the deep end, and having faith to TRY something...
And with my aunt, it made me so sad (I wanted to cry), the last time she posted a pic on FB about her "haul" from the grocery store (months ago), she must have been in a blood sugar low, because she had not one box of Twinkies, but sincerely about 10-20 packages of sweets, treats, bread, and all the things she knows she needs to cut out - "but she can do it in stages and only have a little each day." MY LEFT FOOT!
Ulp! Sorry I hit on the Twinkies
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@RalfLott No worries there. Twinkies are not a tempting food for me at all. I don't know why, as I used to love them! LOL To me, they are a non-food now. I don't have many trigger foods that talking about them will make me want to go and eat them all just by thinking about them. Maybe bacon. LOL Now, put bad things in front of me when I'm already in a weak and vulnerable place? I might have to roll the dice that I develop some willpower, at least long enough to distract myself.
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Dragonwolf wrote: »Also, regarding salty and crispy -- roasted chicken skin!
https://sarahfragoso.com/easy-and-amazing-roast-chicken/
Love that!1 -
Leanbean65 wrote: »Can I get the recipe for those?
Sure thing, sorry it took me so long to respond!
Simple Cream Cheese Pancake Recipe
They're delicious!1 -
JTyler2016 wrote: »Leanbean65 wrote: »Can I get the recipe for those?
Sure thing, sorry it took me so long to respond!
Simple Cream Cheese Pancake Recipe
They're delicious!
I kinda like the look of that, but feel like the sugar sub doesn't even need to be there. Just personal taste, but I can't imagine it helps anything structurally, and I'd prefer my pancakes a bit less sweet than I've ever had them anyway.1 -
Gallowmere1984 wrote: »I kinda like the look of that, but feel like the sugar sub doesn't even need to be there. Just personal taste, but I can't imagine it helps anything structurally, and I'd prefer my pancakes a bit less sweet than I've ever had them anyway.
I often don't use any sugar sub either, and they turns out just fine, sometimes I'll add a little flax to make them fluffier or SF vanilla extract to add a natural sweet instead.0
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