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  • Bonny132
    Bonny132 Posts: 3,617 Member
    Well if it is stinky cheese, then I can think of a few I would like to rub it all over, but if it is cheddar, mozzarella etc then I totally agree. Just shove it in and enjoy every mouth full.
  • JohnnyLowCarb
    JohnnyLowCarb Posts: 418 Member
    What I have found is that there is not one food that cannot be replicated (or come very close) to be LCHF. I love pizza and I saw a recipe for making a pizza in a pan, where the cheese becomes the crust! I tried the cauliflower pizza (no go for me). Thats what I really like about this new WOE (see I am getting used to the acronyms) its a pretty cool journey / experimenting with the foods I loved with carbs, now substituting for healthier alternatives. PS: there is no substitute for coffee and I have been living on it more than ever on the LCHF, so forget everything I said.
  • LowCarbInScotland
    LowCarbInScotland Posts: 1,027 Member
    Are you suggesting I'd have to give something up permanently and forever?? :disappointed: In the short term there's not much I couldn't live without, but I'd be hard pushed to permanently give up all forms of dairy, I did six months vegetarian once, much of it raw and vegan, but not 100% and cheese was the one thing that kept slipping back in. Eating healthy isn't easy for me, I'm a food addict and a stress eater, but I don't feel particularly deprived eating a low carb high fat diet. Avoiding specific foods isn't hard for me, avoiding binge eating and stress eating in general is what I struggle with on a long term basis.
  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    mmultanen wrote: »
    WHY WOULD YOU WASTE CHEESE RUBBING IT ON PEOPLE?!?!? just shove it all in your mouth!!!

    You can't have your cake and eat it, too... but cheese is different.


    Cheese Porn, hard and soft:

    Cheese porn alert! The 10 best things to do with cheese
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinkadvice/11666022/Cheese-porn-alert-The-10-best-things-to-do-with-cheese.html

    Cheese Porn, a place for Turophilia
    https://www.reddit.com/r/CheesePorn/
    turophilia/turophile: Love of cheese / connoisseur of cheese
  • SuperCarLori
    SuperCarLori Posts: 1,248 Member
    Okay, ya know what? In gonna be completely honest here: maple iced, cream filled Amish doughnuts. Now, that's like a weeks worth of carbs, so it has to be something ABSOLUTELY kick *kitten* before I can splurge.







    I ate one last week.





    But I'm BACK ON TRACK AS OF THIS MONTH GUYS, PLEASE DON'T STONE ME WITH OLD CHEESE!!!!!!!
  • Bonny132
    Bonny132 Posts: 3,617 Member
    @SuperCarLori I wouldn't throw old cheese at you, much better to cover you in some cheese porn instead.

    @RalfLott OMG there are even videos online :D
  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    edited April 2017
    Bonny132 wrote: »
    @SuperCarLori I wouldn't throw old cheese at you, much better to cover you in some cheese porn instead.

    @RalfLott OMG there are even videos online :D

    I had thought to omit that asspect, but since you brought it up....
    Porn & Parmesan:

    https://youtu.be/31MaZo6HGJs
  • SuperCarLori
    SuperCarLori Posts: 1,248 Member
    Bonny132 wrote: »
    @SuperCarLori I wouldn't throw old cheese at you, much better to cover you in some cheese porn instead.

    @RalfLott OMG there are even videos online :D

    Cheese porn......Ooooh yeah! :wink:
  • macchiatto
    macchiatto Posts: 2,890 Member
    anglyn1 wrote: »
    Coffee, dairy products, Halo Top ice cream, 90% dark chocolate, peanut butter, and the occasional cappuccino made with whole milk.

    Pretty much twins!
  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    macchiatto wrote: »
    anglyn1 wrote: »
    Coffee, dairy products, Halo Top ice cream, 90% dark chocolate, peanut butter, and the occasional cappuccino made with whole milk.

    Pretty much twins!

    Twins - OK to sub heavy cream for whole milk... and maybe a wee spot of Everclear?
  • DianaElena76
    DianaElena76 Posts: 1,241 Member
    swezeytba wrote: »
    I think I'm coming to the realization that there isn't anything I couldn't give up if necessary....lol. I used to think I could never give up pasta or bread and wow was I wrong about that....

    That being said I still love my coffee and would be real sad to give it up as well.

    And cheese....

    This.
  • XavierNusum
    XavierNusum Posts: 720 Member
    I have a few, but if I boil it down to one it's my Diet Dew! Everything else is sporadic and controllable, but my daily dew remains.
  • k_e_l
    k_e_l Posts: 44 Member
    Coffee!! No way no how can I ever give it up!
  • AlexandraCarlyle
    AlexandraCarlyle Posts: 1,603 Member
    Kimchi. That's my 'Desert Island Discs' luxury item, right there....
  • sickandfat
    sickandfat Posts: 69 Member
    Diet Coke! I am trying to cut back but fail a lot? I try to keep the 16.9 oz. bottle size and take a couple sips and then I drink a 8 oz. bottle of water. This works sometimes and does not work sometimes? It is a battle for me.
  • AlexandraCarlyle
    AlexandraCarlyle Posts: 1,603 Member
    You're better off drinking normal coke.
    Seriously.
    So-called 'diet' coke is worse for you than the normal stuff.
  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »
    You're better off drinking normal coke.
    Seriously.
    So-called 'diet' coke is worse for you than the normal stuff.

    Uh.... beg to differ.
    Diet Pepsi over DC, though.
  • sisterlilbunny
    sisterlilbunny Posts: 686 Member
    All Hail HALO TOP!!! I'm so danged happy I found it since iced milk is seriously not the same. Though I have to be careful since I can still eat it like a you know what.

    I can't give up my peanut butter. I have switched over to natural peanut butter with no added sugars but I know, I know, legumes are bad. *sigh*
  • AlexandraCarlyle
    AlexandraCarlyle Posts: 1,603 Member
    RalfLott wrote: »
    AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »
    You're better off drinking normal coke.
    Seriously.
    So-called 'diet' coke is worse for you than the normal stuff.

    Uh.... beg to differ.
    Diet Pepsi over DC, though.

    Just going by what I found.... :|

    http://www.businessinsider.com/diet-soda-may-not-be-any-better-for-you-2013-7?IR=T

    http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20739512,00.html

    http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Diet-And-Fitness/diet-drink-health-sugar/2015/12/14/id/705796/
  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    edited April 2017
    AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »
    RalfLott wrote: »
    AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »
    You're better off drinking normal coke.
    Seriously.
    So-called 'diet' coke is worse for you than the normal stuff.

    Uh.... beg to differ.
    Diet Pepsi over DC, though.

    Just going by what I found.... :|

    http://www.businessinsider.com/diet-soda-may-not-be-any-better-for-you-2013-7?IR=T

    http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20739512,00.html

    http://www.newsmax.com/Health/Diet-And-Fitness/diet-drink-health-sugar/2015/12/14/id/705796/

    Sugar v. Aspartame, like a great many food choices, is most likely an individual thing.

    Sure, I'd prefer stevia, but gimme aspartame over a sugar bomb any day! (Diabetic speaking.)

    PS. I might be inclined to block health.com. (See the Official Darwin Awards thread...)
  • AlexandraCarlyle
    AlexandraCarlyle Posts: 1,603 Member
    Aspartame makes me physically sick. I cannot abide the flavour, and can detect it where others apparently cannot. Looking at the ingredients, it's there, in small letters....

    I can see why you'd block health.com (having seen the thread you indicate) I was merely indicating there are sources out there.... :)
  • hmikkola92
    hmikkola92 Posts: 169 Member
    Diet coke... And coffee from Tim Hortons :#
  • Italiana_xx79
    Italiana_xx79 Posts: 594 Member
    Coffee.. I use sugar free creamer but I know that still doesn't really help it.
  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »
    Aspartame makes me physically sick. I cannot abide the flavour, and can detect it where others apparently cannot. Looking at the ingredients, it's there, in small letters....

    I can see why you'd block health.com (having seen the thread you indicate) I was merely indicating there are sources out there.... :)

    Mind you, I don't buy Diet Coke or anything with aspartame, but if it's aspartame or death (or sugar), well.....
  • RalfLott
    RalfLott Posts: 5,036 Member
    Café? Ma naturalmente!
  • nikoba
    nikoba Posts: 291 Member
    Coffee is life blood (and my appetite suppressant in the morning)
    Cheese/dairy
    Avocados are my heros on days I need an easy portable meal...or hefty snack.
    Peanut butter (in moderation of course)
  • DianaElena76
    DianaElena76 Posts: 1,241 Member
    AlexandraCarlyle wrote: »
    Aspartame makes me physically sick. I cannot abide the flavour, and can detect it where others apparently cannot. Looking at the ingredients, it's there, in small letters....

    I can see why you'd block health.com (having seen the thread you indicate) I was merely indicating there are sources out there.... :)

    My boss buys Zevia to fuel his Coke addiction without the sugar or artificial sweeteners. I haven't tried it, but he swears it's the best. https://zevia.com/
  • WVWalkerFriend
    WVWalkerFriend Posts: 575 Member
    Coffee, cheese, chocolate (though in serious moderation or fat bombs if I'm really craving it and in a pinch), and sweet n low. Yeah, yeah, artificial sweeteners, I know, I've read it all. It doesn't give me trouble so I'm keeping it.
  • JohnnyLowCarb
    JohnnyLowCarb Posts: 418 Member
    I can live with all the things I have given up from the carb world (and found excellent replacements Zoodles for noodles and I even made keto bread (almond flour egg backing powder butter) in a coffee cup in the microwave in 90 seconds!) but if someone said it's a Keto diet or Coffee. Coffee wins! Everything else is up for negotiations.

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