Things I hate on LCHF
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Things I hate --
- Knowing my WOE can help my diabetic family, but they refuse to listen, so I have to watch their health go downhill
- Having to take dishes and silverware camping, due to lack of buns and not wanting burnt fingers (though sliced cheese does make a decent substitute for a hot dog bun...)6 -
My daughter made these awesome keto cake pops. Don't miss cake anymore. I do however miss yogurt parfaits. Love yogurt and fruit with a little granola.
Gotta say that I am no longer craving carbs... miss them on occasion.... but don't crave them at all.
I stopped craving too. Miss some things on occasion.0 -
NACL isn't that salt?
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Comments. "When will you go back to eating normal?" is my mom's favorite. I love her but she worries for the fun of it. She says she's afraid I'll get too skinny... I'm 5'8", weigh around 157, and have some pretty serious bat wings when I point. It's goofy.
I miss easy dessert/treat options. I really liked candy and now I can't eat it. I know there are substitutes but that is a rabbit hole I don't want to go down.
I miss ignorance too... Even if I wanted to eat high carb treats, I can;t because I know what it does to me and the junk that is in it. Yes jelly bellies, I am talking to you.
BUT the positives outweigh the negatives by quite a bit. I won't write all those down. The thread would get too long.
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Working with people who celebrate something every other day and buy a cake or doughnuts for every celebration.
Hearing "Why don't you want any? Are you on a diet?" every time I won't eat the cake. Like I'm an alien.
Missing crunchy foods. I don't like pork rinds all that much, and I really don't like anything made from flax seeds, and I'm trying to avoid nuts. Doesn't leave me much.
Missing beans.
Watching my mother, who's never weighed more than 120 pounds in her life at 5'8", eating everything she wants without worry. Why did I have to get everything from my father?3 -
@nvmomketo "I miss ignorance too... Even if I wanted to eat high carb treats, I can;t because I know what it does to me and the junk that is in it. Yes jelly bellies, I am talking to you."
I was going to cheat with ice cream on Saturday, but the Custard Cabin closed early and we ended up at the grocery store. I read about 15 cartons of delicious sounding flavors and decided that I have worked too hard to do that to myself.
@gypsy8080 I was very pleasantly surprised that when i roasted some brussel sprouts yesterday, the stray outer leaves that turned almost black had the salty crunch of a chip!! OH YEAH! Gonna do that again soon.5 -
@nvmomketo "I miss ignorance too... Even if I wanted to eat high carb treats, I can;t because I know what it does to me and the junk that is in it. Yes jelly bellies, I am talking to you."
I was going to cheat with ice cream on Saturday, but the Custard Cabin closed early and we ended up at the grocery store. I read about 15 cartons of delicious sounding flavors and decided that I have worked too hard to do that to myself.
@gypsy8080 I was very pleasantly surprised that when i roasted some brussel sprouts yesterday, the stray outer leaves that turned almost black had the salty crunch of a chip!! OH YEAH! Gonna do that again soon.
Good for you!! 0 -
I miss quinoa, brown basmati, fruit (I live in a major fruit belt and miss peaches, nectarines and cherries the most) and blue corn tortilla chips. Not craving so much as missing their lovely flavour. Pork rinds DO NOT CUT IT as chip replacements. And kale chips are too time consuming and expensive to make, as I can eat pounds of kale in a single sitting. Which is probably too many carbs anyhow, lol.
Unfortunately I do not have any health issues related to eating these foods, except a bit of possible weight gain (but not even to the overweight category) which I am trying to avoid as I go through menopause. It would be easier if I puked up, or my hair fell out, or I had an asthma attack when I eat them, lol.1 -
For the folks missing ice cream, if you're in the US, I've heard that Halo Top is fantastic.
http://www.halotop.com/
Unfortunately I'm in Canada and can only dream about it.
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What I hate is how many carbs seem to be in everything.
Every meal in any restaurant has enough carbs for a week.
A handful of chip has hundreds.
An order of fries has thousands.
Arrrggghhhh.
(Rant for the day. )4 -
Opening up the cupboard and thinking cat food is a better choice for breakfast than cereal (and almost every other human food).10
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Midnightgypsy0 wrote: »What I hate is how many carbs seem to be in everything.
Every meal in any restaurant has enough carbs for a week.
A handful of chip has hundreds.
An order of fries has thousands.
Arrrggghhhh.
(Rant for the day. )
Yeah, that ties back into the "ignorance is bliss" thing. Once you learn what to look out for, you can't unlearn it, and the sheer volume of things best avoided is astounding.
My former favorite "low-carb" meal was a large order of meatballs from Wawa. Then you discover that they somehow managed to shove 30+ grams of carbs into six meatballs. How the hell is that even possible?5 -
Gallowmere1984 wrote: »Once you learn what to look out for, you can't unlearn it, and the sheer volume of things best avoided is astounding.
My former favorite "low-carb" meal was a large order of meatballs from Wawa. Then you discover that they somehow managed to shove 30+ grams of carbs into six meatballs. How the hell is that even possible?
My first job was at Taco Bell in the 1970s.. Those Wawa balls are practically paleo fare compared to the buckets of oat-laden orange sawdust we seasoned with stingy pinches of cheap hamburger and cheese-like imitation food to make taco "meat." Conscientious diners could order the Tang-colored glop without the taco shell or burrito for a "lo-cal snack."4 -
Jesus, dude. I mean, I know Taco Bell has always roughly translated to Caveat Emptor, but I didn't realize it was quite that bad.4
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artfulwench wrote: »For the folks missing ice cream, if you're in the US, I've heard that Halo Top is fantastic.
http://www.halotop.com/
Unfortunately I'm in Canada and can only dream about it.
@artfulwench - I've heard it's overrated and not creamy at all as it's low fat, low cal, and sugar free, etc. I've heard it isn't worth the money, just FYI...0 -
The only thing I hate on LCHF is all the people who see me eating and tell me it's unhealthy. You do you bro.
Speaking of ice cream. I wanted some yesterday, never even thought about making my own keto ice cream! (I'm in Canada so I can't get most of the low carb options available in stores).5 -
Gallowmere1984 wrote: »Once you learn what to look out for, you can't unlearn it, and the sheer volume of things best avoided is astounding.
My former favorite "low-carb" meal was a large order of meatballs from Wawa. Then you discover that they somehow managed to shove 30+ grams of carbs into six meatballs. How the hell is that even possible?
My first job was at Taco Bell in the 1970s.. Those Wawa balls are practically paleo fare compared to the buckets of oat-laden orange sawdust we seasoned with stingy pinches of cheap hamburger and cheese-like imitation food to make taco "meat." Conscientious diners could order the Tang-colored glop without the taco shell or burrito for a "lo-cal snack."
Oh wow, that's disgusting...no wonder home made tacos are fine but taco bell tacos are not to be eaten on a road trip (for many reasons).2 -
KnitOrMiss wrote: »artfulwench wrote: »For the folks missing ice cream, if you're in the US, I've heard that Halo Top is fantastic.
http://www.halotop.com/
Unfortunately I'm in Canada and can only dream about it.
@artfulwench - I've heard it's overrated and not creamy at all as it's low fat, low cal, and sugar free, etc. I've heard it isn't worth the money, just FYI...
It's really good! The trick is letting it rest on the counter for a few minutes. It doesn't have the emulsifiers that are added to most ice creams so it's not creamy right out of the carton. If you let it sit and soften a few minutes the texture changes to that of "real" ice cream. I like the birthday cake best. The vanilla is good too and I don't even like vanilla. The chocolate I didn't care much for. I can't get the rest of the flavors where I live so no review on those. I'm dying to try the lemon cake.
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Gallowmere1984 wrote: »Things I hate on LCHF:
-Drinking hardly any beer
-Having to think so much about salt
-Eating so few fruits
That's about it.
Man, speaking of salt, I think I'll have some Wild Bill's jerky today. I swear, it's the only common jerky around here that isn't loaded with sugar. Seriously, *kitten* Jack Links and every other corp who think that beef needs sweetened.
I hear you on the jerky. I need to make my own.2 -
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.
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