Enlightened

#1

Please enlighten me…keto yes or no?

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#2

EDIT: Realmuse, I didn’t mean to sound harsh, if I came off that way when I responded. You can eat this if you can control your portions. :grinning: I, personally, would find it difficult. But I am sure it is tasty!

If I saw that right, one serving has 15 total carbs, (I don’t do net carbs). You could eat it, but I wouldn’t like to use up my carbs that way. But that’s just me.

#3

44g per “serving” for most of us on here. :blush:

#4

True! I would have a difficult time with such a small serving!

(Allie) #5

Honestly who would actually eat a 90g serving? Deceptive labelling.

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(Robin) #7

I never messed with NET carbs. Stuck with the total. No regrets.

#8

Uh oh l thought it was opposite… thanks

(Robin) #9

Don’t get me wrong. A lot of keto folks go by net carbs. But they can eat a carton of something like that ice cream and not trigger a craving for more. I am not one of those people. I stay well within the lines. But that’s just me. I know my limits. And the stricter the better. As a former addict, I never underestimate the slippery slope. So I steer clear.

But… many can and do play it looser. More power to them!

#10

Yes l get that. One serving of something like that ice cream can last me a very long time since l do not crave sweets. So…l need to start Journaling total carbs versus net carbs. I will learn a lot thanks so much.

(Allie) #11

The only way you’ll find out of it works for you or not is to try it. For some people it would be a massive trigger, others could eat the whole tub and move on easily. What you really need to be learning is not “is this keto?” But “does this work for me?”

#12

Everything is keto if it fits your carb limit.
Is it good for you is another question but that’s individual too.
I wouldn’t eat it for reasons (certain ingredients. like water, my dessert should have no added water :smiley: but I actually have taste problems with sunflower oil and monk fruit. and it’s surely insanely sugary and not enjoyable just because of that) but it’s me, you need to figure out if it works for you or not.

I always go with net carbs, total matters nothing to me. I ignore animal carbs too, actually (but I avoid milk usually, I doubt getting a ton of sugar from it every day would do good to me).
But as you see, many people should focus on the total.
And even I have an instinct to keep my sweetener usage to the minimum (zero except when I have some extremely great reason for it. wanting a dessert doesn’t cut it).

But as I already wrote, you need to figure out what works for you. Maybe you would be in a worse situation without sweets. I had such times, I ate very much cakes and ice cream and other stuff on my original keto as it was my only way to keep my net carbs low enough and myself satisfied. I would have go off even more often without those things. But those times passed, it happens with many of us. We have some crutch or smaller evil ally for a while… And then we evolve. But surely many people keep such things, it’s fine if it works for them. Sweets are often problematic so it’s good to minimize or ban them for most of us I think. I am a hedonist and I eat as much sweets as I want but I trained myself to want little and carnivore did the rest (the bigger half, it’s crazy. I don’t eat plant carbs and I just don’t want sweets. if I eat sweets, I want more sweets. not a good idea most of the time. but if I am satiated and my sweets is extremely low net-carb but very satiating, it doesn’t cause much problem. so if I have a reason, it’s fine. I usually don’t and it feels like freedom after decades of “sweets in the end of nearly every meal”).

#13

same for me. had to be total carbs, there was no pretend netting the carb that worked for me :slight_smile:

when you just wrote this above why would you focus on allowing this junk back into your day? I mean, since you eat it so rare, why even eat it at all cause one thing one has to remember, if it is on the brain, something deep down is making you find ‘ways to eat something sweet’ kinda…well it would work that way for me LOL, might not be that way for you which would be a good thing.

Are they pricey? I now those little pints of speciality items can cost and I would have to put that price against a big ol’ steak on my plate :sunny:

(Karen) #14

Maybe training wheels. Some people struggle with cutting out sweets. For me it’s the salty crunchy. Pork rinds, Parmesan crisps are OK but not Potato chips. Sigh

#15

Somebody who doesn’t like ice cream! Eat the pint or go home!

#16

I was low-carb before keto and ate this. Now, I still have many pints of this I got on sale taking up space in my chest freezer :). I am starting to very slowly deplete my supply to make room for more ribeye! It’s delicious but too calorie dense for the quantities I wish I could eat. That said, I’ve miraculously been managing portion control so it hasn’t slowed my weight loss. Maybe I should view it as calisthenics for portion control!

(Robin) #17

Good for you! I would have to toss it and lose the money, but no self control. So I have to have TOTAL self control, if that makes sense.
The way I see it is… the money is already spent.

(Little Miss Scare-All) #18

My body can’t handle any sugar substitute. Almost all of them give me headaches, and the ones that don’t give me headaches make me super depressed. I always see these ice creams in the store and wish I could try them, but I guess it’s the universe trying to tell me I don’t need it.

#19

That’s quite unfortunate. If something is dense (and doesn’t have the wrong items), I automatically feel pleased with less, it worked with my keto ice cream in the past, I had maybe 60-80g portions? I am very good with frozen things anyway, I am happy with little of them.
Maybe you are similar just this stuff is wrong at that. It’s quite possible, almost all ingredients are super bad at satiating me and even if I eat just little so it can’t contribute much, this factor matters to me a lot. My own ice cream is similarly fatty and watery but more protein rich and it means a lot to me. And the fat is better, of course. And I don’t often use sweeteners.

I dropped almost all processed stuff back then. I had health reasons (I mean, I can’t consider them healthy and it’s mentally troublesome to look at ingredient lists. I prefer food without labels) but so many potential items to mess up things for someone…

We don’t have such ice cream but I am very glad I don’t have temptation - okay, this one is surely awful tasting to me as I have this with too dense sweeteners :smiley: Just because I basically banned overprocessed stuff with wrong ingredients, sometimes I still get curious. Reading this ingredient list would be enough for me to lost interest but better to be safe. Don’t be sorry you are forced to eat better, it’s good. You still can have some nice treat here and there, everyone should have a few minutes to make them, at least sometimes!
I am the only one who thinks sweeteners and sweetness is overrated…? An ice cream should be frozen but strong sweetness? Why would we necessarily need that? I expect some subtle sweetness, dessert-like qualities (I mean when things aren’t sweet but we are tricked. some vanilla flavoring already makes me thing it’s a sweetish dessert. not enough alone but helps. cinnamon is similar. hey even unsweetened chocolate) but cream and some flavoring does the job pretty well.

Or we can lose interest in ice cream, I did but I still want some kind of desserts here and there… (My default was coffee then I went and pretty much quit :smiley: I hope. It was only 5 days and now I take a break as I bought coffee. Way harder now and the house contained none…)

(Little Miss Scare-All) #20

Lol this is so true for me, too. Once I pick up a product and flip it to read the ingredients, if there’s a giant paragraph that’s so long that an author has to be given copywrite credits, I’m done. My brain goes “why is all this crap necessary. If I made this at home I never need to put glutaphosphopontificalastronaut #3 in it”.