NOOO! They arrived!

huuxue

sending it to troops is brilliant, I'm sure troops out there have little girls who are girlscouts a great sentimental thing

slrose

Find an organization that sends care packages to the troops or something, feeling good about a good deed is SO much better than how good samoas taste!

this is a GREAT idea! overseas troops would really appreciate something so familar from home

CoderGal

So, I have a crisis. I started my keto diet about a month ago and before then, I ordered Girl Scout cookies. Unfortunately, I just got them in today and I'm so sad. Who can resist samoas?! I can't if any of you aren't familiar with keto, your body stays in the ketosis state, which uses fat instead of carbs for energy. If I eat too many carbs or sugar, my body kicks me out of ketosis. Should I do a cheat day and start keto all over again?

I'm hoping you realize that running off fats instead of carbs doesn't mean you can't get fat...No matter what you eat if you don't burn it off, it's stored. So personally, I don't see the point of the ketosis thing? I'd eat the cookies. Haven't hurt me yet.

Yeah, at first I was a bit hesitant on it but it does work. Here's something I pulled up that gives more scientific info about the keto diet. The keto diet was made for people with epilepsy but changed up a bit for dieters.

"When you eat carbs your blood glucose level is raised and your pancreas secretes insulin. This insulin puts your muscle and fat cells into “storage mode”. Your fat cells store away the glucose as triglycerides. Insulin also prevents your fat cells from breaking down those triglycerides back into fatty acids and releasing them into your blood stream for use as energy. This is important: Insulin both causes fat absorption and prevents fat from being used as energy.

If you were to eat sugary snacks throughout the day you are keeping your insulin level high which constantly keeps your fat cells in a state of absorption and prevents the release of fat and its use as energy.

Eating fat and protein does very little to raise your insulin level.

So the bottom line here is, if you want your body to burn fat – meaning if you want your fat cells to break down triglycerides into fatty acids, release them into your blood stream and actually use them as energy – you need to keep your insulin level as low and absolutely avoid spikes in insulin."

You quoted something but didn't leave the link?

If you are on a calorie deficit, you cannot gain weight...or fat...or protein...You're on a deficit, you are only losing and you can only lose what you already have. It really doesn't matter if someone tells you your fat cells are in the mood to store. You're on a calorie restriction, they wont. Insulin spikes are not the devil, and they certainly do not make you fat.

It really is worth going to this site and busting some myths about the low carb thing:

http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=319

*img to large for screen, worth dragging to new window to get his point or visiting the link* "After meals, fat is deposited with the help of insulin. However, between meals and during sleep, fat is lost. Fat balance will be zero over a 24-hour period if energy intake matches energy expenditure."

"He's right on the money. Studies show similar weight loss with widely varying levels of insulin and there is no evidence for high insulin causing weight gain. Weight gain and overeating causes high insulin, not the other way around. Some people in the low carb camp seems to believe otherwise, despite no evidence." "Over a week or so, someone on a high-protein diet will always look better than someone on a high-carbohydrate diet, simply because of dehydration. When a similar study was conducted several years later, researchers found that after about three weeks--when the effects of dehydration had evened out--the weight loss on the two diets was virtually identical. " http://www.leangains.com/2010/06/malcolm-gladwell-on-low-carb-diets.html

*is writing this while eating a pastry wrapped curry chicken while having a body fat in the teens*

PamGeirng

You have worked to hard to give in now! Get the temptation out of your house while you have a chance

jcjsjones

This is brilliant! I was torn about buying any, because I want to support girl scouts, but don't want
the cookies in my house.
Once I have one, I won't stop.
I'm going to buy some with the intention of giving them away.
Maybe Safe Nest...

My daughter is a Girl Scout and each troop has an organization that they choose to donate cookies. You can purchase the cookies and the troop will send the cookies for you.

Edited to add: I am having the temptation attacks too. Could be because I have hundreds of boxes at my house at the moment..lol! :sad: :laugh:

DrMAvDPhD

You can't do keto forever and the cookies aren't going to go bad quickly. Just hide them in the back of your pantry and bring them out when you're done.

fitfreakymom

Find an organization that sends care packages to the troops or something, feeling good about a good deed is SO much better than how good samoas taste!

This is an awesome suggestion

your local military family resource centre

WendyTerry420

If it were me, I'd drop the whole keto BS and just eat normal foods. Life's too short to deprive yourself of Girl Scout cookies.

annepage

I can. Never got into girl scout cookies actually. If you don't feel like it'll de-rail you and you won't kick yourself later for having some, then go for it. Life's too short. If you will be ticked at yourself later for having some of the cookies, then don't do it.

myofibril

If you want to eat a cookie, or two then be all means do.

It's won't hurt your progress to any significant degree, keto or no keto, unless it then causes you to binge.

I promise.

janeite1990

Put the cookies in the freezer. With any luck, you'll forget they are there, and when you have lost your weight, you can have a couple to celebrate. Or, at least you'll have to wait for them to thaw before you nosh!

christa96

Stick them in the freezer! They will last and it's sometimes as easy as out of sight out of mind :happy:

^^ This! I bury stuff in my freezer so I can't see it and then eventually I forget about it!

nturner612

lol why dont you hide them or have someone else hide them from you

Jasmine_James

I am doing a ketosis diet as well. My nutritionist has recommended that I take maintenaince breaks every 4-6 weeks. I would stash them with a friend and then schedule a maintenance break and enjoy some at that time.

kgoodman0108

Mine just arrived today too! I ordered three boxes. I went as far as to see which one had the least carbs, and wondered what if. They are going straight into the freezer when I get home.

jayche

So, I have a crisis. I started my keto diet about a month ago and before then, I ordered Girl Scout cookies. Unfortunately, I just got them in today and I'm so sad. Who can resist samoas?! I can't if any of you aren't familiar with keto, your body stays in the ketosis state, which uses fat instead of carbs for energy. If I eat too many carbs or sugar, my body kicks me out of ketosis. Should I do a cheat day and start keto all over again?

Mail them to me

thecanface

if you have no will power spray them with windex... that way you have no choice..

SwimFan1981

I have no idea what Girl Scout cookies are but they sound nice, eat them...

susannahsutton1

Girl Scout cookies make me cross. I'm British and knew about them from various US sitcoms, you know, cute little kids in uniform going round selling cookies. But I thought they were like here, which is when the Girl Scouts (or Brownies/Guides our side of the pond) bake them themselves and then sell them. OK, so they might be a bit misshapen or burned, but it's the thought that counts.

When a friend of mine from Virginia sent me some GS cookies in the post I was heartbroken!! It's mass-produced sugar being flogged door to door by kids. That is actually just child labour. So think of how soul-destroying they really are and get rid!

mmapags

I'd eat them. All of them.


Then again, I choose to lose weight through a sensible IIFYM plan, and therefore, I can pretty much eat whatever I want.


Feel free to send them to me

Yup! This is exactly why I do IIFYM. So that I'm not faced with these kinds of choices. Keto diets = no proven metabolic advantage for weight loss + restrictiveness. Sounds like a lose/ lose to me.

brokenjawedmuse

So, I have a crisis. I started my keto diet about a month ago and before then, I ordered Girl Scout cookies. Unfortunately, I just got them in today and I'm so sad. Who can resist samoas?! I can't if any of you aren't familiar with keto, your body stays in the ketosis state, which uses fat instead of carbs for energy. If I eat too many carbs or sugar, my body kicks me out of ketosis. Should I do a cheat day and start keto all over again?

Well....if it were me, I'd eat them in one day, and then start clean the next day. Depending on how many boxes you have, you may never want to look at Samoas again (I know I sure as hell don't!).