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#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”.

#21

If you get off sweeteners of any sort 100%, try the mason jar ice cream recipe:

Jar with lid. 1/2 c heavy/whipping cream
1 egg yolk
1 t vanilla extract
shake for 3 minutes. Freeze for 3 hours.

Staying off sweeteners means the vanilla extract and cream will taste very sweet to you. three ingredients. If you forget it’s there for several more hours and want to eat it, thaw it in the fridge for an hour, or it’ll be a block of ice you can’t get a spoon into.

The recipe goes back to Atkins, RIP and thank you doc, thirty years or more.

#22

My wife is the same way, not just artificial ones, but alternative sweeteners that are real like Stevia, Monkfruit, they all taste terrible to her, I’ve even snuck them in blind more times than I can count because I thought she was full of it…NOPE! Now when she wants something like ice cream she just gets the low/no sugar added ones, deals with it and burns it back off. She can portion herself correctly, I eat the whole pint and lick the cardboard clean.

#23

Atkins is what started it all for me! 2007 and I lost 80lbs in 10wks… god that was fun. I lived on chicken wings, bacon and eggs, and every Atkins baked good you could make, remember Atkins bake mix? AWESOME! Belgium Waffles everyday!

(Little Miss Scare-All) #24

I know what she means. A lot of sweetners leave this…cold taste in my mouth. I’m with her, I’d just rather deal with the repercussions of the real thing lol.

(KM) #25

We actually have that stuff in our freezer right now, my hubs is doing keto with me and has a big sweet tooth. I am a bit dubious like others, and I find it way too sweet.

My frozen go-to: I grow mint and stevia. i take about a teaspoon of leaves of both and chop super fine. Add to half a cup of organic heavy cream and let the herbs sit and infuse flavor into the cream for a while (in the fridge). Whip. put in pastry bag (to be fancy) and squirt about 1/4 c of it at a time onto a plate or plastic bag, or just use a spoon and revel in the simplicity. Freeze, at which point you can just store the puffs in one bag. Very satisfying ‘tooth’, with the occasional little intense hit of mint or sweet. They do have a slightly greasy mouth feel, I find one is enough when I’m craving a dessert. ( I hold in a napkin, they will melt in your hand, not in your mouth, although the texture is a lot like a popsicle with that little squeak).

#26

That is not possible.

#27

Ok… (what) is not possible?

#28

probably the 80lbs in 10 weeks? Not sure tho

#29

My ice cream is very similar, it’s whipped cream or mascarpone for me, more flavoring (lemon and Stroh80 rum too) and 12 yolks or more…
:smiley:
It’s pretty good for an egg maniac for me. My old ice cream had no dairy at all but I used banana. Still a very valid and quite tasty option when not on carnivore… But I never want ice cream on carnivore so it’s fine.

All super sweet sweetener tastes awful to me. Only the “less sweet than sugar” ones are fine. Well maltitol isn’t particularly sweet to me but not so bad tasting, it’s something (it’s a pointless stuff to me but I don’t hate it with the same passion as the super sweet ones). And yes, mixed with 1000 times as much xylitol (tasty to me) and used sparingly in something? The awfulness is still very, very, very strong. No way I don’t feel and hate it. Some of us are like this.

I only heard about that and maybe in the beginning I could somewhat understand it regarding erythritol…? It was quite fine but I felt… something? Now I don’t, erythritol is meh but sweet, no cold feeling at all. Xylitol always was my fav among sweeteners. If I use one, it’s usually that nowadays. Way tastier than erythritol and if the net carb difference matters, I use too much sweetener and carbs in general and should eat better :wink:

We don’t have those things here but I guess they are made for newbies or ketoers who eat super sweet things often…? So people whose sweetness perception and expectation is “normal”.
Sometimes I wonder if some keto sweets for people who changed exist. All my family member started to eat things way less sweet as before after giving up added sugar (or extremely reduced). They eat lots of natural sugar, even and it happened so quickly. Maybe it doesn’t happen to us all… But I heard the same from many people so it’s quite common.
I only find the chocolates sweetened by maltitol okay as I feel maltitol 1/5th as sweet as erythritol and that level is tolerable for me. I avoid maltitol but had to tried it once so now I know :slight_smile:

Mint in ice cream? Why I never did that myself? I have mint plants!

#30

Ya, that’s what I’m thinking as well, I like to give people benefit of the doubt that they’re not stupid enough to pretend they know more about me and what I’ve done than me (unless its on Reddit) but we’ll see I guess :roll_eyes:

(Little Miss Scare-All) #31

This was the worst offender in the cold mouth feeling, followed by the next day shoulder aches and depression. It’s just weird to me how it targets my shoulders! And my mom has the same exact reaction in the shoulders. So stinkin bizarre!

#32

Lose 80 pounds in 10 weeks.
Help Forum am l wrong?

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #33

Eight pounds a week is plausible enough, even though it’s better not to lose that quickly. I imagine at first it was water weight, which can come off quickly. I’ve read that each glucose molecule we consume causes us to store four molecules of water, so our initial loss is more bloat than fat.

Overall, my keto fat loss was 80 lbs./36 kg over about seven months. There was one day, however, in which I shed 20 lbs./9.1 kg. I weighed myself in the morning, and by the afternoon my weight was 20 lbs. less. I remember posting an angry and confused thread on these forums, though I no longer remember why I was so upset. But it was a real loss, because the scale continued downwards from the new, lower weight.

Another time, I stepped on the scale one morning and weighed 30 lbs./13.6 kg more than I had the day before. My clothes weren’t any tighter, but the scale consistently registered the new, higher weight, and it took over 30 days for the scale to slowly return to the lower weight. I have no idea what happened, or how.

#34

So you’re asking OTHER people now? What’s the matter? Your past looking crystal ball not working correctly? You want other’s to join in on accusing me of being a liar about what I did almost 20 years ago? Because I have something to gain from that right? I’ll make it easy for you genius, it’s called somebody in their 20’s with an RMR through the roof, a physical job that averages 12hrs a day and going to the gym and beating yourself into the ground both before and after work, does wonders!

I expect this childish nonsense on Reddit, not here.