do you ever get frustrated with public perception with your diet?
tmoneyag99
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I mean I hear all the time "I fell off the wagon today" blah blah blah.
And I want so badly to say "Give low carb a shot" but if you say anything you get the nasty eye.
Dude it's so easy to stick with. Sure, while I was making my son chocolate cupcakes with homemade butter cream icing I had the urge. Who wouldn't? (don't judge, it was an agreement he and I made)
but I didn't eat one. I MAY have licked the icing off of a finger or two out of habbit. But I don't CRAVE.
Yet we get total crap for the diet.
And I want so badly to say "Give low carb a shot" but if you say anything you get the nasty eye.
Dude it's so easy to stick with. Sure, while I was making my son chocolate cupcakes with homemade butter cream icing I had the urge. Who wouldn't? (don't judge, it was an agreement he and I made)
but I didn't eat one. I MAY have licked the icing off of a finger or two out of habbit. But I don't CRAVE.
Yet we get total crap for the diet.
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I don't experience that. I work in a corporate environment with 130 staff. I am not the only low carber here. And I have never once experienced any negative opinion on low carb. Generally the ones who do eat carbs will say with an almost guilty look on their face "I like carbs" but they know bread and pasta are not the best choices. Only thing anyone has ever said to me is "you don't eat fruit?" with surprise. I tell them no, fruit contains too much sugar and I get "yeah, but it's natural sugar, it's good for you". You and I know that's b.s. but I just let it go with a smile.3
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My worst is ordering at restaurants. I find myself prefacing my order with "this will sound weird but..." However, the waitstaff always have been cordial. I've even got, "not weird at all". So it is mostly me, I know.3
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My worst is ordering at restaurants. I find myself prefacing my order with "this will sound weird but..." However, the waitstaff always have been cordial. I've even got, "not weird at all". So it is mostly me, I know.
We eat out all the time. Waitresses are used to people who don't eat bread or pasta or rice, I've never had one blink an eye. Even at the pub I will ask for "no fries, just some steamed vegetables or green salad" and it's never been an issue. Most burger joints do a lettuce wrap. I don't eat at Asian restaurants as their food is full of sugar. I think keeping it simple is the key. Meat, salad, veg.
The ONLY time I can think of that my low carb way of eating has ever been an issue, and this has happened more than once, is practically ANYWHERE that sells coffee. No matter how fancy or how big their range. Generally I'll ask for a black coffee add cream. I usually get a blank stare like I asked for fairy dust. They'll then tell me they have cream in the cream whipper at which point I'll say "does it have sugar in it" and they'll shrug and say "I don't know". I don't even bother anymore. I will usually just drink it black. One day I went into the supermarket, bought a small tub of cream, then went across the mall and got a black coffee, added some cream and threw the rest in the bin. SMH.
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Only from my vegan son and daughter-in-law. They are appalled that I eat meat, eggs, fish and dairy, and insist I'm getting way too much protein (even though I struggle to meet my protein macro most days).
I could fuss at them for all the rice, beans, pea protein and vital wheat gluten they consume, but it wouldn't do any of us any good. To each his own.
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Just from my MIL. Nobody else bats an eye or cares, to my knowledge. I also don't advertise or discuss my dietary preferences, I just eat.5
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williams969 wrote: »Just from my MIL. Nobody else bats an eye or cares, to my knowledge. I also don't advertise or discuss my dietary preferences, I just eat.
This is good advice for all of us.1 -
My worst is ordering at restaurants. I find myself prefacing my order with "this will sound weird but..." However, the waitstaff always have been cordial. I've even got, "not weird at all". So it is mostly me, I know.
I guarantee whatever you are ordering isn't the weirdest order. I order plain meat, no veggies or condiments (I'm carnivore) all the time. I order clearly, kindly, and without apology or explanation of my WOE. I've only had pleasant restaurant experiences.3 -
No, not really. I eat whole foods and exercise, people just think I'm healthy. Online there's still a stigma or negative connotation with the low carb label but in real life it's just not something I talk about so it's a non issue.0
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I get the comments from friends who say they could never give up carbs thats all the yummy food.
Bread, pasta, rice and potatoes all need things like fat and protein to make them yummy IMHO.
Gimme the meat, eggs and cheese! I make a fauxtatoe salad that blows them away3 -
I don't tell people, it's no ones business. If it comes up, I limit bread as much as possible bc it makes me break out. And spikes my blood sugar too much. It's the truth1
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I don't get any negativity in my personal life everyone has been really supportive. They don't want to do it themselves but they are still supportive. When I first decided to join the my fitness pal community I made a post with a keto question just as a discussion, before I found this group, and I could not believe all the negativity I got!! People were bashing low carb diets and arguing with me and making me feel dumb for wanting to keto. It was so awful. Im so glad I found this amazing group.
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If someone asks me, "why...?", I make a quick assessment of their motivation for asking and respond..... appropriately.
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Oh yah absolutely! I get bashed on social media but I get a lot of support from family and my loved ones. My boyfriend is sick of me complaining about people on Facebook. He's right tho, this is my journey and my body. Who cares what some strangers think2
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I've just a had a few comments from family members about "when are you going to go back to eating normally?" After a year and a half, its stopped now... But then again, when I am out with family, those tend to be the meals when I eat the most carbs. It's less than them but not shockingly so.
ETA that on the web is another matter. 2 -
Perhaps it's because I'm older, but in my everyday life I encounter friend after friend on statins, on MEDS for acid reflux, additional MEDS to control their blood sugar & high blood pressure and it's all I can do to refrain from trying to explain/convert .........yes and one & all they're overweight.
IRL my friends have no interest in omitting bread, pasta, rice & grains---omit sugar , no way it's happening.
We're talking here about ppl who take 8-10+ pills everyday...... we are together and eat out together several times a week, so they're very much aware of how and what I eat.
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Fine with me if we have FB and other carb-bashing hotspots to serve as flypaper to keep our little haven pest-free.5
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The only time I got a strong response was in Burger King at a train station -the lady practically shouted "NO BUN?!" Three times to the point I rolled my eyes and said, "it's a thing!!" - got my boundless burger though!
Everyone at work has been great, though they have started that, "don't lose any more!" Rhetoric. Which is fine I guess as I am 2lbs from goal so.... they are fairly accurate?!
And my mother was initially sceptical but after doing some research is now actually doing moderate low carb with good results.
I stay away from places online that don't look keto friendly. Why jump in a snake pit.
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Bunless* - not boundless! Though it was pretty big so maybe...
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Kodekai1988 wrote: »Bunless* - not boundless! Though it was pretty big so maybe...
Darn... I thought maybe it was 'all you can eat', lol. What a dipstick she was... My local Burger King doesn't have a problem, neither does Carl's Junior.1 -
My inner circle of friends is very supportive because they can see the improvement of my movement disorder. They're a bit surprised I haven't gained my weight back eating so much fat. The usual question is how are you not gaining your weight back and the response is that I still count calories.
The general public perception doesn't bother me because I was a non believer too so I understand. I just think it is a shame we have been mislead for the last 50 years or so in regards to both carbs and fat. That is my biggest concern versus what others think-the influences that resulted the Standard American Diet.5 -
Fortunately for me (and tragically for them) I live in a part of the country where the morbidly obese abound. I just hope my husband and I will both be gone when the Florida Panhandle breaks away and falls into the Gulf of Mexico under the weight of its residents. Sitting in the waiting area of a local hospital while my husband got some lab work done, I whiled away the time doing a count: 50 people walked past, ten of them NOT overweight. For some reason, the staffers were among the unhealthiest looking.
But my point: around this neck of the woods, those of us over the age of 15 who look healthy rarely encounter criticisms of our food choices. We are obviously doing something right because we stick out like skinny thumbs.8 -
I do get some side eyes and sceptically raised eyebrows, but among people who know me, a 2.5 stone weight loss over the last 4 months is fairly stark evidence that, whatever I'm doing, it's working!4
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The worst are the people that tell you they "tried it" (admit they didn't read about it), and say how sick it made them and then accuse you of advocating it when you're just discussing it with others that also eat that way, and say you're going to make people sick in the process. Which I guess is why they butted into a conversation others were having in the first place since it was of no interest to them.
All while completely ignoring that you've already stated how much healthier it has made you...
and continue to say that you basically aren't listening to THEM.... LOL
yep. That's frustrating.9 -
When I first began, two years ago, I received a lot of hostility from my family (sisters, nieces mostly). They've shut up about it now because of the results they SEE! I wonder if they now wish they would have jumped with me?!3
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Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »The worst are the people that tell you they "tried it" (admit they didn't read about it), and say how sick it made them and then accuse you of advocating it when you're just discussing it with others that also eat that way, and say you're going to make people sick in the process. Which I guess is why they butted into a conversation others were having in the first place since it was of no interest to them.
All while completely ignoring that you've already stated how much healthier it has made you...
and continue to say that you basically aren't listening to THEM.... LOL
yep. That's frustrating.
Yeah, I amend my previous comment that no one says squat. At least people IRL don't, because they mostly really don't care, just as I don't care what anyone else eats. People on the internet apparently care. A lot. About THEIR opinions.
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Kodekai1988 wrote: »The only time I got a strong response was in Burger King at a train station -the lady practically shouted "NO BUN?!" Three times to the point I rolled my eyes and said, "it's a thing!!" - got my boundless burger though!
Made me think of this old Bloom County comic from 1980:
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What I get frustrated with are my obese friends trying to give me diet advice...they seem to listen to whatever the latest fad is (sprinkle this on your food to lose weight, drink this shake, take this pill, etc.) and are really not interested in a discussion of actual nutrition. Any attempt at talking about nutrition is immediately blown off with comments about how I can't understand because I'm not obese. It's frustrating to watch people I care about, people I know are intelligent human being, act like someone pulled jedi mind trick on them. It continues to baffle my why they think I really need to try their latest weight loss obsession just as it continues to baffle me how they can really truly believe in these obviously scam products. I just don't get it, and watching them ruin their health is heartbreaking, but they won't listen so I don't know what else I can do.5
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Besides some good friends, I am surrounded by "fat will make you fat and give you a heart attack" people. Even my T2D mom is in that camp. I don't talk about it. Meals with them, I limit my carbs as much as possible, the "avoiding gluten" story keeps the questions to a minimum.0
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Sunny_Bunny_ wrote: »The worst are the people that tell you they "tried it" (admit they didn't read about it), and say how sick it made them and then accuse you of advocating it when you're just discussing it with others that also eat that way, and say you're going to make people sick in the process. Which I guess is why they butted into a conversation others were having in the first place since it was of no interest to them.
All while completely ignoring that you've already stated how much healthier it has made you...
and continue to say that you basically aren't listening to THEM.... LOL
yep. That's frustrating.
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Not much. If they do I'll tell them about the positive effects I've experienced in addition to weight loss, and about Dr. Wahls and her protocol for MS, and/or mention that my primary care dr, cardiologist and MS specialist are all supportive, my blood work is great, etc. I don't really talk much about not really eating fruit or more starch vegetables because then they'd probably give me a harder time ...3
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