What has taken over MFP more Keto Threads or ACV Threads

tomteboda wrote: »

Why is there no cookie diet fad?

My wife is the cookie mom for our troop - just saying. You do the marketing and I'll supply the crack...I mean cookies (same thing really).

Alatariel75 wrote: »

I'll still look at the occasional ACV thread. I stay out of the keto threads, it has no relevance to me. High fat with a bad gall bladder = pain, and some stupid asshat once told me it would cure something uncurable and I wanted to nutpunch him, so I stay away, just in case some other twit makes a similar claim.

I stay out of the keto threads for exactly the same reason. Every time some overeager low carber wants to cure my depression for me my blood pressure shoots up. At least ACV won't leave me on the toilet, pooping for days like a high fat diet does.

Have no interest in keto so I stay out of those. I DO check out the ACV threads because they generally end up with a few recipes for things like pulled pork and salad dressing using it.

fascha wrote: »

RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »

CSARdiver wrote: »

tomteboda wrote: »

Why is there no cookie diet fad?

My wife is the cookie mom for our troop - just saying. You do the marketing and I'll supply the crack...I mean cookies (same thing really).

You mean sugar is addictive?

what you never sucked *kitten* for a Snickers? pfffft

The kitten over type just made that seem even worse

LINIA wrote: »

Isn't it true for those of us older folks, we all did LC growing up. Not that it was called LC,

I'm pretty old (47), and I did not low carb, and my parents and grandparents certainly did not. (I hated bread and cereal as a kid -- I was an annoying child -- and the older folks all thought that was weird.)

I can remember while loving sweets, still only occasionally getting something sweet, sweets were a rare treat. We, just as a normal part of life, ate one serving during meals. . . . .yes, the holidays were more like many ppl eat everyday today.

We ate the kind of dinner I do (often) now: meat/fish, starch (often potato), and vegetables. Servings weren't crazy, but I don't think everyone eats crazy servings now, when eating at home. Lunches (for people other than me) were often sandwiches. Breakfast was often oatmeal (plain for us, but the flavored kind existed and it was common to put fruit in it) or, for the kids (other than me) and also for my parents and grandfather, cold cereal was common. For the older people not with lots of sugar (but that did not make it low carb by any stretch of the imagination), but they also did add fruit. My mom baked cookies not all that uncommonly, and so did my grandmother. On weekends we'd sometimes have bacon and eggs for breakfast, but also my dad would sometimes do pancakes or waffles or french toast (he only really grilled and cooked carby breakfast things, otherwise the women/girls did the cooking).

Holiday meals were quite a bit different from regular meals, but so are holiday meals today.

Does anyone else recall that being called greedy or a glutton wasn't bad manners and PC didn't exist?

PC didn't exist as a thing that people said, but politeness was still a huge thing to my parents and I would have been punished if I'd called someone greedy or a glutton.

Also, overeating and low carb aren't the same thing.

I know younger ppl here have been told this and may not want to read it again but in many of our entire schools for k-8 there was perhaps, one obese boy or girl and in high school..perhaps 2 or 3....total.

Yeah, same here, but not because we didn't eat carbs.

My maternal [edited because a letter can be important] grandfather, who grew up on a farm and was a farmer for much of his life (born in 1919), ate more bread and potatoes than anyone I've known. He loved fruit and veg too, and had a huge sweet tooth (he claimed he got it from his Swedish mother), and used to drink sugary tea. (I was a weird kid and hated sweetened beverages even back then.)