Funny and/or Dumb Mistakes We've Made Doing Keto

(Manda) #81

Never let your significant other make anything for you, without strict instruction.
I asked my husband to make me a shake with powdered greens, almond milk, vanilla extract and a little cocoa powder and MCT. I drank it down and about ten minutes later I was flying about like I was hypomanic. I said to him how much MCT oil did you put in that? He said just s teaspoon. Turns out the bloody eejit had put 5 scoops of powdered greens in instead of one. My body was high on veggies.

(Davy) #82

Yow. I found a mistake in the last few days. A week ago I got my blood lipids checked. I thought total chol. and LDL were a bit high, at 227 and 157. So I googled ‘what foods to lower your chol. and LDL’ Up came nuts. So the last 3 days, I’ve been eating almonds, cashews and pistachio nuts. Guess what. Flatulence came back.
So I guess copious amounts of nuts are off the menu again.
Reading a book on Carnivore that says, at over age 60, it’s okay to have total chol. and LDL in that range - says you’ll live longer because of those fats. That the trigs to HDL ratio is the much more important number to look at.

(Manda) #83

When you say you were young at the time, what age are you meaning? I just want to estimate how well I should be doing at 34. I do have two genetic conditions that affect muscle tone and metabolism. So never sure what is a normal metabolic rate or below. I just go on how insulin resistant I appear to be.

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #84

Cashews and pistachios are not the best, too carby. Macadamia and pecans would have been better choices.

(Liz Ellen) #85

A few months into keto, my parents had me over and my step-mom was so proud because she had made a fruit salad instead of dessert. I felt terrible telling her I couldn’t eat it. “WHAT KIND OF DIET SAYS YOU CAN’R EAT FRUIT!” She was not impressed. I fished out a few berries and thanked her.

(Heather Meyer) #86

About 2 years ago on one of my other Keto journeys, i fell into the “No sugar added” chocolate trap! I had stumbled into Purdy’s chocolates and my mouth dropped open to see “no sugar added” Chocolate Hazelnut stuffed headgehog chocolates. OMG… this was like Heaven for the Keto’er.

OMG… i spent over 50$ in those babies. With 3 in a package, it was indulgent. I went through 8 packs of 3 in one day!!!

Within an hour… i began having some rumbles in my stomach followed by a few “toots” and then came the cramps. Oh GAWD!!! The cramps!!! I felt like i was in labor pains. I was curled up on the floor wedged between heat packs… my stomached rumbled for hours and ballooned up twice its size. I felt pregnent, I looked pregnent and thought i was going to die… and then in one moment… i realized that my explosive fart was not, in fact, a fart. And there was no going back. No way of holding anything in. And that was it… I spent the rest of the evening sitting on my throne, curled up hugging my knees, sweating as i prayed for God himself to deliver me of such an evil- MALTITOL!!!

I learned 2 important lessons…well 3 actually.

  1. Maltitol is evil…avoid it at all costs
  2. Dont just trust a label that says “no sugar
    added or Keto”
  3. Keto labelled candy can knock you out of
    ketosis. Always check ingridents.
  4. NEVER EVER trust a fart post maltitol
    consumption or any other sugar alcohol
    consumption.
(Heather Meyer) #87

Did your chaffle batter look a little “gluey” inatead of batter"y"? Play-Doh anyone?

(Heather Meyer) #88

Ooooohhhhh i hate that! Nothing drives me more mad then being hungry and seeing beef jerky everywhere but its all loaded with sugar out here!

(PJ) #89

In my sheet where I keep stats on macros for various foods, spices are just the worst. First, a lot of things simply have no info at all. Second, most of them deliberately choose a tiny serving size so the labeling laws will let them get away with just saying zero on everything. Third, not all spices are the same – various additives or fillers may exist in some brands.

For example I’ve been using Penzey’s half-sharp paprika – I eat a whole lot of things like chili con carne that use it – for months. I ran out of it last week and I’m irritatingly poor at the moment, so I couldn’t just order more. But aha! I had some store-brand paprika in the big spice cabinet. Great!

Every serving of it I eat, I get a red rash the size of a baseball perfectly centered on the inner bend of my arms. I only eat one at a time and keep the rest in the freezer so I can separate them for obvious reasons, and try to drink water and detox between. (Poverty: suddenly less picky about food.) But the point is:

Obviously this is not the same. I don’t react to the other at all and it’s definitely paprika. The store brand stuff clearly has some kind of filler or additive that my body hates.

Anyway: even the macros can vary a little.

But here’s what I have in my ‘single ingredient’ spice spreadsheet in case it’s helpful.
Most my info comes from the USDA unless there is a label.
If there is no info on label or USDA I use the closest equiv herb for estimate.

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(Marianne) #90

Very interesting; I had no idea. I don’t know why, but I just blindly assumed that spices had no calories and no carbs, I think because there is no label on them. Figured if there was no label, there was nothing to report. It’s a good thing I don’t eat many veggies, because I use a lot of spices when I make soups, dressing.

Thank you.

(Davy) #91

Just found out another possible mistake. I assumed everyone on Keto was eating mostly Beef, like 80% or more of red meat. So that’s what I was doing…80% red meat/beef. But just so other new people know, you CAN eat mostly non-red meat, like salmon and chicken liver being the top two super meats; as well as sardines, mackerel, oysters, chicken, tuna, eggs of course. My grocery bill thanks me for this.

(Anna ) #92

When I started keto and I was in a state of major brain fog and carbohydrate withdrawal, I was counting all my carbs and trying to stay under 20 g of carbs per day. I though I was doing great, and after a month when my keto flu passed and I got my clarity, I was looking through my food diary and realized that I wasn’t totaling my carbs for the day but only for each meal so I was actually at around 40 or less grams of carbs per day LOL Thank goodness I was only eating 2 meals a day, had I been eating 3 meals per day that would have been 60 grams of carbs.

(Vic) #93

See I am the opposite, I like onions if its not overdone But I could live without them I don’t miss them
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However Have to have fresh garlic in butter sauces, and for fresh spinach cooked in oil and garlic and so many other things but I have learned to use wisely and use less But I won’t give it up

(Manda) #94

Having kebab meat and thinking it was carb free. Big mistake. May as well have had 2 slices of birthday cake given how badly it threw me out. Only 2 weeks later did I finally see the scales move again.

(bulkbiker) #95

I watched some Dr Berg videos …

(KCKO, KCFO 🥥) #96

Really bored???

(bulkbiker) #97

Long time ago!

(bulkbiker) #98

I learnt my lesson quite quickly!

(Paulene ) #99

Same!! Totally knocked me out of ketosis. :sob:

(Vic) #100

Wow Kebob meats have carbs?

I am not surprised, I actually made that mistake with gyro meat myself

Thought kebob meat was safe though I used to go to Zoes on occasion before the lockdown and get the chicken Kebobs there