Huh!? Wow; that is bizarre.
Who would think that you have to be specific when ordering eggs, and not just how you want them cooked!
Funny and/or Dumb Mistakes We've Made Doing Keto
gingersmommy
(Marianne)
#42
I did that pre-keto. It was horrible and very serious. My boss, who knew I had a problem with weight, gave me a box of sugar free chocolates for Christmas. God bless him; he meant well. That was back in the early 80s when I’m sure those suckers were worse than they are now. I thought this was an answered prayer - sugar free chocolate! - and proceeded to binge on them (never mind it recommended only eating 1-2 pieces at a time). I had gas that I thought was going to put me in the hospital. You could hear my stomach from two rooms away. After that, I never touched a piece of sugar free candy.
Chantarella
#43
DAMN IT.
I couldn’t figure out how I got my carbs over 20 today. What did I DO?
It was an onion. AN ONION.
I have to warn to guys. One effing ONION is worth 5 carbs.
I am so angry.
From now on I will only use onion powder and garlic powder. I hope thats better?
Don_Q
(Windmill Tilter)
#44
Pretty similar. 1 tbsp of onion powder is 5g carbs (though a flavor comparable dose may be a bit smaller?)
I like onions so I use the real thing. I just use less. That way at least I know what I’m eating. Who knows what else they put in the powder… 
x-Dena-x
(Little Miss Scare-All)
#45
Honestly, I think one of the biggest mistakes I first made doing keto was utterly overdosing on fat. Fat for the purpose of fat, to the point where I’d feel nauseas. So much so that it made me hate bacon. I was adding fat to fat, and then eating tht in conjunction with more fat. My body hated this and I quickly realized that if I’m not hungry between meals, my fat intake is fine for my particular body.
The light at the end of the tunnel is that I have started to enjoy bacon. But it can only be cheap, thin sliced bacon cooked to incineration. Thick cut uncured bacon is a big barf fest for me.
Chantarella
#47
@Don_Q
How day you cook without onions? Or garlic? Some people dont like garlic. But you absolutely need onions for cooking! Otherwise everything tastes like cardboard. Too bland.
RightNOW
(PJ)
#48
I have a rule for myself. If I think about a given sweet thing and I think, “Oh yummy! That sounds great!” – then alas, I can’t have it. It means that lust-for-sweet is driving a noshing and if I feed that monster it will get worse. But if I think about it and in reaction I think, “Hmmn, yeah, ok, that might be good.” – then I can have it, because I don’t care either way. So it’s not a hankering for sweet that is driving me, but rather, just my interest in food variety and novelty.
Once I started that rule, eating sweetish things did not ever seem to drive me offplan again, since when I was vulnerable to that, I didn’t.
RightNOW
(PJ)
#49
My biggest mistake: assuming other people have any freaking clue what is in their food… when they are feeding it to me.
My stepmom, who knew I could not eat grains or carbs – we discussed this all the time! – makes hamburgers, and points out that she made burgers so that I could just leave off the bun or use lettuce. She is very thoughtful. Thank you! I say, delighted.
Gosh this burger sure is good…
She mixed a bunch of packaged onion soup mix into the burger. Filled with carbs AND gluten. Sigh…
Or a friend from way back: I made a dessert you can eat on low-carb! she says happily. I’m so grateful, such a nice thought! We had previously talked about how things like chocolate and ice cream were not ok because of their carbohydrates.
Unfortunately she failed to understand that apple pie would not be ok either. “What kind of weird extreme diet won’t let you eat FRUIT?!” she says, as I gaze at the sugar-bomb crust and filling sadly.
What seems obvious to me as in the early days I obsessively tracked everything, and so learned, most people are completely oblivious to.
My neighbor recently told me his doctor told him he was pre-diabetic. “Oh really!” I said. “Are you eating lowcarb or keto? Because I have lots of recipes if you’re interested!” He looks blank. “You know,” I say, “Dropping the sugar and starch in the diet, so your blood sugar is low, so you don’t get diabetes.” He still looks blank. “Does that help?” he says.
(His doctor should be… ugh!)
People tend to think of foods as their whole-result and not based on the components that go into them. One version of a food can be super carby and another keto, just depending on the ingredients chosen. So people often assume that if they once saw you eating X, that their version of X is hence on your diet.
Most disasters I’ve had in blowing carbs for some reason, came through trusting other people in some fashion and then discovering they were usually well intentioned but clueless about food.
Meerkatsandy
#50
You just accept the fact that you can’t have them in large quantities, just like all the other foods we cut out of our diet, and your tastebuds adapt to new flavors.
atomicspacebunny
(Bunny)
#53
The stupidest mistake I ever made with a ketogenic diet is not increasing my carbohydrate intake with time.
When you been on a ketogenic diet a long time and your not feeling so well anymore, that’s why.
Listening to this newbie talk about how they ate a carbohydrate is comical?
“…I ate a carbohydrate and lost control…” is an emotionally re-enforced concept in placebo land.
AnnieBobAnnie
(ANNE )
#54
I made the mistake of increasing my carb count last year and thought I would be ok. A bit like the Atkins plan, see what your tolerance is…
I also would check my blood sugar to see what it was a couple of hours after consuming something I should have avoided.
Because my blood sugar was absolutely fine, I thought I was doing ok!
Mistake!
My blood sugars have been genreally better since Keto, but for the past year I have gained weight again, piling on 7-8 kg in 12 months.
I am back on the wagon, but annoyed that I let myself get back on sugar… I do know better, and I know now not to be fooled by improved blood sugars…
Don_Q
(Windmill Tilter)
#55
I do use real onions, I just use less than I used to. My taste buds have changed so much over the past year that a little goes a long way.
DavyKOTWF
(Davy)
#56
I"ve learned something from this thread already. A week ago I started taking 2 tbsp. of MCT oil. For a few days it went okay, no problem. THEN, boom, started having these awful stomach aches almost all day long, and didn’t know why. . . until Marknel mentioned that too much too soon can cause problems. Thanks @Marknel !
DavyKOTWF
(Davy)
#57
Will add another one here, probably many newcomers to Keto can identify with. The saying in quotes is attributed to Fangs; she came up with this jewel. In order to be most successful with Keto, one will have to "Drop the old baggage diet myths" like 1) saturated fats cause heart disease 2) you have to eat lower number of calories to lose weight 3) listen to your dr. - he/she is god and knows everything 4) you have to exercise to lose weight 5) eating lots of fats cause weight gain 6) all cholesterol is bad
It goes on and on. So we have to reeducate ourselves.
Fangs
#58
I so appreciate this!! But heck no. I got this from long term veterans who took off the lbs…improved their health/medical situations so vastly and are thriving. Experiences put out there for me to read and sort thru and direct chat with those who literally changed so much that they got their lives back!!
So I am paying it forward cause without all those who learned thru experience before me, I would have been lost without them.
So I say raise a glass to all those who walked the hard walk and found their path and were SO very generous to share it with us!~!
You cool Davy 
I like ya LOL
Fangs
#59
and that is the hard truth. what we are ‘told’ by ‘experts’ on the internet ‘thru science’…well there is a ton out there. It is up to use to weed thru it and follow our true path as we see it and get great results from changing ourselves.
This is a biggie for sure for all of us wanting better!
