Father’s Day Rant Thread

#21

Happy Father’s Day to all dads here! My husband and I decided not to have kids, so I don’t celebrate these days, but I had a wonderful father-daughter relationship. I got along my with dad much better than with my mom and we had a wonderful relationship. Unfortunately, he has Korsakoff syndrome so there’s only a little bit of him left, but good memories remain. I hope all you dads know that we always cherish the times you spent with us and we always carry you in our hearts and heads :slight_smile:

(Full Metal KETO AF) #22

Chef Darren! I didn’t know you had a son so happy belated Father’s Day. That pizza looks awesome and an expression of love for your family, I guess you’re one of the Awesome Dad Club members too. God bless you my brother. :cowboy_hat_face:

(Full Metal KETO AF) #23

This happens a lot with girls, moms can be critical with daughters and dads are so protective of their little girls. I’m sorry to hear about your dad’s decline, it sounds like you are very close. Thanks for your sentiments. :cowboy_hat_face:

(PSackmann) #24

Belated Happy Father’s Day to all the wonderful Dads here. @David_Stilley, that was immensely generous of you, to allow your son to go camping with his Mom on Father’s Day weekend. That’s what makes you a good dad.

@dlc96_darren, smiling at your story, I’ll be helping my son with his room over the next few weekends, in preparation of turning it into a dorm room.

My stepsons were both going to be busy this past weekend, so I took my husband to Kentucky and plied him with fun and tequila. It was well-deserved for him.

(The Lackadaisical Ketologist ) #25

I am a reproductive powerhouse who produces children by seducing Scandinavian women and then tricking them into forgetting how much of a toll child birth takes on their bodies. I have 5 little BeefCakes and BeefCakettes who consume my time and financial resources while giving back in the form of ballet recitals, stepped on legos, and mowed lawns. I have always known Father’s Day as the one day of the year that my offspring love me almost as much as they do their maternal caregiver. Which is exactly how it is supposed to be. Her role is one of love, nurturing, support, encouragement, bonding, and preparation for what life as an adult will bring. She gives way more than she receives and she does so with more heart each and every day than I could offer up in a lifetime. My role involves cursing while I repair things I should have taken to a shop, killing various insects & creatures which only stir at night inside the minds of children, correcting aberrant thinking & behaviors, scaring away potential perpetrators (to include suitors), and saying “go ask your mom” when in doubt. I am the man my sons need, the father my daughters want, and almost the husband my wife deserves. I don’t care at all about credit or praise. I do not want purchased greeting cards or gifts. I do not need a day off. The gifts I receive arrive every single day of the year, the respect of my family and the acknowledgement that I will sacrifice everything for them. Plus hugs and kisses, I get a lot of hugs and kisses.

Happy [belated] Father’s Day.

(Boston_guy) #26

My wife made Eggs Benedict… then kid and I went to his baseball game.

Lunch for he and I was Lobster, Butter, Salt, and Smoked Salmon melted together in a pot. So good! Lobster without salted butter really isn’t lobster at all :slight_smile:

(Full Metal KETO AF) #27

Awesome dub, sounds like a perfect Father’s Day. :cowboy_hat_face:

#28

I really tried to fight it, but i’m becoming more and more like my mom…It did hit me a few times that that might not be such a bad thing, but I can’t admit that because I can’t blame everything on her :joy:
You sound like a wonderful father and your son will have strong pillars to grow up into a proper man :slight_smile:

(Full Metal KETO AF) #29

This was my experience Sandy. Growing up I feared my father mostly and I was a disappointment to him. He had many qualities I grew to hate during my teen years. I swore to myself that I would never be like him but in my 20-30’s I found that some of his most disliked features had crept into my life and when I realized the damages I had to fight to become who I wanted to be. Childhood conditioning is powerful. It’s mostly conquered now but it can still rear it’s ugly head if I am not thinking clearly. I find it easier to keep my cool :sunglasses: since I started keto. Without the carb roller coaster my moods are much more stable. :cowboy_hat_face:

('Jackie P') #30

I really do wish them well😌

('Jackie P') #31

Check out “This be the Verse” by Phillip Larkin!
A very short poem about parenthood!

#32

Yup, it really sneaks up on ya…

Meh, we have to support those shrinks, they gotta eat too…keto, i hope :joy:

(Susan) #33

That pizza looks delicious (recipe please?) and I am on a 24 hour fast atm… but willpower, Susan… =)).

(Doug) #34

David, nice post. It’s a thing for many of us - my dad is 82, and is truly immovably set in his ways. Not all a bad thing - he’s lived a pretty healthy life, no smoking, very little booze and is at a healthy weight. He’s had prostate cancer, from which the recovery or at least the remission is apparently 100% and has been for quite a few years. He had a very mild stroke 7 or 8 years ago, and there too the recovery is excellent - I’d say 95%; the only thing is some slight loss in memory capacity and function.

Both his parents lived a long time, his dad to 97 and his mom to 100, but they both had Alzheimer’s Disease fairly severely toward the end. We 5 kids feel he’s ever so slightly starting to slip away, and I can’t help but think that fasting and eating ketogenically would be good for him, due to the neuroprotective aspects. But wow - getting him to change… Easy to say, I guess - and I feel a bit ashamed since I’ve always had far more trouble controlling myself than he has. Even if he can’t remember a name or a word quite as fast as in the past, his quality of life is really still 100% - he takes care of a big place, cuts grass, uses weedeaters, drives tractors and pulls a brush hog, cuts trees, etc.

I wonder if some day I’ll feel that I should have pushed harder.

(Karen) #35

Happy Father’s Day to all happy fathers. We do multiple celebrations.
There are three older fathers, my husband, my brother, my husband’s brother. There are two new fathers, my two nephews. There’s also my daughters birthday, and a great grandson’s first birthday. My father passed last year, and I miss him. My husband‘s father‘s birthday was frequently, as it was this year, on Father’s Day. He has missed as well. So here’s to all fathers past and present.

(Karim Wassef) #36

Same here. As long as he’s physically active and does the equivalent of weightlifting in real life, I think that goes along way to emulating a ketogenic metabolic state.

It’s when poor diet changes that dynamic and he feels tired and lethargic - that’s the danger.