What's your Kryptonite?
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Oh my...kryptonite for me is a whole range of food! Chocolate, potato chips (crisps over here), granola, pastries, ice cream, chocolate, cake, fruit especially tropical, chocolate.....
So many lovely things I can't have anymore (especially after this weekend
) No wonder I'm not hitting ketosis or losing any weight! That said though, both days I had the stuff I love, I felt awful for the rest of the day. I just wish that made me not want it anymore! 0 -
any kind of cake and french fries... Love both too stinken much
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My old krypronites are fading out - but nuts are still a danger zone and I'm trying to be careful with them.0
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SlimBride2Be wrote: »My old krypronites are fading out - but nuts are still a danger zone and I'm trying to be careful with them.
It is interesting how these changes are phased in. The last holdouts for me were nuts and chocolate. Now, after 6 months, even those seem to hold no power. This must be what it's like to be normal.
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I'm in Alberta, Canada, and it is always "pop" up here. The only people who call it soda are Americans who have come up to work in the oil industry. LOL
I've never heard anyone call all pops "coke" before. Coca cola won that marketing battle, eh? LOL
I started drinking carbonated water with lime to make up for missing pop. It works, but it's still not the same...0 -
Peanut butter. Hard to stop after that first spoonful. Luckily it's not too carby..
All the things that used to be so dangerous have lost their power now.
This. I don't keep regular peanut butter in the house, I make my own almond butter or buy the P28 protein almond butter. The texture is so different from regular peanut butter that I have no problem regulating it.
I will eat a jar of PB in like 4-5 days if left unchecked. It's ridiculous.
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nvsmomketo wrote: »Pepsi and Dr Pepper. I'm a newbie to keto but I've gone moderate carb in the past. If I allow myself this "treat" then all my control flies out the window.
I miss pop.
Yey! Someone else who calls it "pop"! Moved South 5 years ago and get the strangest looks.
Pop was certainly my demon for years and I knew weight loss would not happen without kicking that habit. Once I did after 6 months I couldn't even sip it anymore. It the carbonation made it taste like battery acid.
All carbonated bev's are called "Coke" down south. Even if its a Sprite, someone will ask you "what kinda Coke do you want? A: Sprite....LOL! (I was born and raised in Dallas.) "Pop", is a dead ringer that you're a Yankee....
Up here in Michigan, they do it too. If a waitress asks you what you want to drink, a Michigander will say, a "Diet". Well, there dozens of diet drinks, but I soon learned that a "diet" is only a diet Coke (or Pepsi if pushed).
Dan the Man from Michigan
Keto / IF / Sedentary
I was raised in Texas, but I've always used Coke, soda, pop, soda pop, soft drink, "refreshing beverage of choice" (usually said in a "fancy" voice), etc., all interchangeably. If someone says one, no matter which, I roll with it... and even growing up in Texas, I never really encountered the "you want a coke/what kind?" scenario... Maybe weird attracts weird. I even worked in fast food and never ran into that issue...0 -
We say fizzy drink or soft drink in New Zealand. I always imagined all Americans saying "sody pop!" with a real twang.0
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Science to the rescue! These guys basically asked "what's your kryptonite?" And the #1 answer was pizza!
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.01179590 -
Beans, carrots and cucumber are kryptonite? That's a mighty small culinary world those folks live in.... 0
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#24.... water?
Who did they survey? The Wicked Witch of the West?0 -
bluefish86 wrote: »#24.... water?
Who did they survey? The Wicked Witch of the West?
Ha Ha
No kidding!
And I thought water was a good thing!!
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Science to the rescue! These guys basically asked "what's your kryptonite?" And the #1 answer was pizza!
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117959
I make keto friendly pizza (crustless) all the time. The breaded stuff is ZERO temptation.
Keto friendly chocolate is scary easy to find.
And cheese crisps are better tasting that chips ever dreamed of being.
Haven't even bothered trying a LC cookie because I don't miss them exactly.
Chocolate mousse (hwc, dark cocoa powder, sweetener) is great. Or a cream cheese mix. Haven't tried keto ice creams yet - too complicated. LOL
I could go on, but LMFAO...
And hee hee hee at the water/WWotW comment - priceless!0 -
Waffles. I loves me some waffles. I don't even try to make the low carb kind because that will just make me want some real waffles with real syrup. And grits. I used to have a big bowl of grits with every breakfast (unless I was having waffles). In fact, it was grits that started the initial carb creep after I lost my baby weight. So I've managed to avoid those two altogether.0
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Psychofilly wrote: »Waffles. I loves me some waffles. I don't even try to make the low carb kind because that will just make me want some real waffles with real syrup. And grits. I used to have a big bowl of grits with every breakfast (unless I was having waffles). In fact, it was grits that started the initial carb creep after I lost my baby weight. So I've managed to avoid those two altogether.
Major kudos to you!!! @Psychofilly! Those are huge progress markers.0 -
Grits are evil! I used to think I was doing good when eating them, lol!0
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Man! I wish Salmon was my Kryptonite...0
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SkinnyKerinny wrote: »I have found Lychees in the following places in the US: Safeway (hit or miss-- some stores special order them), Trader Joes (they stocked them for like 5 minutes this year) and Asian markets. There is a place in Florida that sells them online but it's about $30 per pound. They are also sold on Amazon along with their first cousins, Mangosteens (not nearly as good in my opinion).
But as I told the nearly 30 people at my office who asked about the weird fruit I was eating, "BEWARE THEY ARE ADDICTING". About 26 of those people became addicted (one of them seriously like me) and the others didn't like them. So you have been warned.
Are they better than Pineapples? I so miss fresh ripe pineapples....
I would love to taste a Lychee, just for the experience. I've been Keto for 10 months now, its amazing what I can resist and all the foods I once was ADDICTED to, are just another food to avoid. If I want to eat a juicy Honey Crisp apple, I do,
but it takes me 3-4 days to do it (cut into quarters, one 1/4 per day) LOL!
I hope this helps,
Dan the Man from Michigan
Keto / IF / Sedentary
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French fries ... and dark beer, specifically Fuller's London Porter. In fact, I told my husband he can bring any beer into the house except that one. My willpower just isn't that strong.0
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Wine. I LOVE wine, and I know a little is ok on LCHF, but it always makes me want to snack
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Ice Cream & soft bread (e.g. like what they use for oil/vinegar).0
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I was Skypeing with my mum the other day and she started talking about how often they are eating new potatoes from the garden and I suddenly realised I had found my kryptonite!! A bowl of new potatoes, cooked with mint, and a huge amount of butter!!! Actually...new potatoes cooked without mint and as a side to anything!! Must have lashing of butter still though! 0
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I would KILL for a cupcake right now. Not just any cupcake though-- there is a specialty bake shop not far from where I live that makes the BEST, monstrous vanilla w/ buttercream cupcakes.... UGH.0
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Besides an extraordinary love of lychees, I confess I also have plans to plant Coe's Golden Drop plum and Ashmead's Kernel apple trees once I get my house with a big yard. Who knows what will happen once I try those. I adore fruit-- what can I say!0
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For me its the chips, or crumbed fish Instead of getting upset I allow myself to have a little chips now and then and some fish once a week or fortnight stops me from feeling like crap and the results keep coming. I used to crave soft drinks and crap but now I don't like them anymore not one bit don't even miss the crap. fell in love with Bulletproof coffee every day though.0
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nvsmomketo wrote: »
Are you an American? If so, you probably are not from the south.
Grits are the inner kernel of corn ground up similar to oatmeal. It is served just like oatmeal, cooked in boiling water, butter, cream or milk, sugar or maple syrup or honey.
I hope this helps,
Dan the Man from Michigan
Keto / IF / Sedentary
93 pounds down, 31 to go.
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LOL, all of western Canada calls it 'pop,' if anyone calls it soda, it's like "Huh?!" If you say Coke up here, that's exactly what you'll get. And Diet Coke is more popular than Coke Zero simply because it is easier to say and rolls off the tongue faster - most places offer both on the menu.nvsmomketo wrote: »Pepsi and Dr Pepper. I'm a newbie to keto but I've gone moderate carb in the past. If I allow myself this "treat" then all my control flies out the window.
I miss pop.
Yey! Someone else who calls it "pop"! Moved South 5 years ago and get the strangest looks.
Pop was certainly my demon for years and I knew weight loss would not happen without kicking that habit. Once I did after 6 months I couldn't even sip it anymore. It the carbonation made it taste like battery acid.
All carbonated bev's are called "Coke" down south. Even if its a Sprite, someone will ask you "what kinda Coke do you want? A: Sprite....LOL! (I was born and raised in Dallas.) "Pop", is a dead ringer that you're a Yankee....
Up here in Michigan, they do it too. If a waitress asks you what you want to drink, a Michigander will say, a "Diet". Well, there dozens of diet drinks, but I soon learned that a "diet" is only a diet Coke (or Pepsi if pushed).
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nvsmomketo wrote: »
Are you an American? If so, you probably are not from the south.
Grits are the inner kernel of corn ground up similar to oatmeal. It is served just like oatmeal, cooked in boiling water, butter, cream or milk, sugar or maple syrup or honey.
I hope this helps,
Dan the Man from Michigan
Keto / IF / Sedentary
93 pounds down, 31 to go.
@nvsmomketo It is also very close to polenta, though polenta is usually cooked to form, and grits are, as Dan said, servered like a savory oatmeal, usually with cheese and butter. I've never seen the served sweet as Dan mentions above.
In other countries, polenta, corn meal, or corn flour are sometimes used as the terms there, depending on location.
If you are familiar with the Mexican food staple cornbread, it is what is used in that, but prepared as a porridge type meal.0
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