General thoughts and comments

#1

OK, sorry if there was a better thread for this…but I didn’t see it. Sometimes I just have a random thought I’d like to contribute based on my day…

Today a coworker brought in some watermelon. She offered me a slice. I thanked her but explained I can’t have it because of the carbs. We had a short conversation, and she was mildly surprised that it had carbs in it. She said, “I just never would have thought watermelon had carbs in it.” Now, this lady isn’t stupid by any means. She’s reasonably intelligent. But what strikes me is that so many people aren’t aware of what has carbs or is high in carbs, much less what it can do to your body. Do they not consider fruit or any veggies to be carby foods?

So there’s my comment/thought for the day.

(carl) #2

I’m shocked at how people think ultra sweet fruit is healthy. “It’s full of antioxidants!” Ok fine. If you didn’t eat fruit you wouldn’t NEED so many antioxidants!

(Michael Wallace Ellwood) #3

Yeah it’s that whole five a fucking day thing, isn’t it…

#4

I’m guessing they may be thinking about things more like bread or wheat? I’d have thought it was obvious that fruit is a carb, but I think people aren’t thinking about it having sugar since it’s natural rather than added.

(John) #5

Someone mentioned another place about eating 500g of carbs a day before starting keto, everyone said no way, I detailed a couple of my normal days and all were over 900. The carbs are out of control and most people don’t even know it.

(Karen Parrott) #6

Agree with all. Fruits and veggies seem to have a free pass. The “fruit is free” at WW kept me stuck for close to a decade. Ugh! Grooming diabetics from what I can see. I wish I knew then what I know now. Better late than never.

(G. Andrew Duthie) #7

Most people don’t think about carbs at all. They just eat what they feel like eating.

I envy them the simplicity of not thinking about everything they eat, but then I remember the downsides, and the envy turns to pity.

#8

I find myself so much LESS focused on foods these days. When on a diet, I obsessed about what I was going to eat next and when. This WOE is damn amazing. I look forward to eating, but I’m not obsessing. That was one of the things I disliked most about diets.

#9

Ugh. So glad I “see the light” now!

#10

The food regulation and nutrition industry screwed things up when they separate “added” sugar from “intrinsic” sugar. So a raspberry coulis (i.e. squeezed and concentrated berries) is “good”…because it is “natural”. But, simple syrup (i.e. squeezed and concentrated cane) is “bad” …because…ah…because…ah…I dunno…why!!!

#11

In truth we’re not taught about nutrition. We’re told what to eat and we’re given the healthy food pyramid. But we’re not taught about food and the body. I’ve learnt more from the 2KD in the last 6 months than I have from decades of schooling, reading magazines articles, doctors and dietitians.

(David) #12

Likewise. And that knowledge has changed the way I eat, and will hopefully change my health permanently.

PS note to future me aged 59 in 2027, “You did keep eating Keto didn’t you? "

#13

I think people are starting to twig that sugar is bad for you, but fruit still has a health halo. In my office we’ve got a lady who’s perpetually on Weight Watchers and grazes on fruit and carby snacks all day, I worked out once that she’d scoffed about 50g of sugar before lunchtime just in fruit. And when I pointed out to the diabetic guy that his “healthy” smoothie had as much sugar in it as a can of coke his face dropped a mile.

(Dustin Cade) #14

People are programmed to think that only high fructose corn syrup is bad… Pure cane sugar is ok, honey is ok, agave is ok, coconut sugar, sugar in the raw, it’s really all ok if it’s all natural organic… You can’t live without fruit… I’m still waiting on a sarcastic font…

(Sheri Knauer) #15

My husbands childhood friend convinced him that the best way to eat and detox is to consume at lest 20-25 servings of fruit a day so he has been eating that much, as well as drinking at least 16 oz of smoothies (more on weekends) every day. He’s been eating that way for 8 months. I tried telling him it was way too much sugar when he first started but my pleas were falling on deaf ears so I let him eat how he wants and I eat keto. He has lost weight because he has cut out the processed carbs but if he puts on a few pounds one week, he blames it on the few bites of steak I made the other day. His friend thinks I am crazy eating all those dead carcasses (he makes it sound like Im chowing down on road kill still on the road, lol) and he has a website and videos out now promoting his raw food detox diet and in the videos he’s coughing and hacking and goes on about his health woes and he has been eating raw food (Mainly fruit and juice along with grass clippings) for 6 years. Ugh. Gets me so irritated thinking about it. I think I’ll go have some road kill now…

(Crow T. Robot) #16

How are his teeth? At the Dentist’s is where many vegans and fruititarians have their “come to Jesus” moment, unfortunately only after there’s been real damage done. Suddenly horrible dental checkups is how both Denise Minger and Chris Masterjohn realized they were harming their health. It’s often the ‘canary in the coalmine’.

Obviously, he’s not going to listen to that, but it might be something for you to watch for.

(Crow T. Robot) #17

+100

It’s truly shocking when we discover that something we thought was self-evident and common sense was nothing more than clever and persistent marketing.

I’ve often thought that the only reason advertising is not illegal is because most people believe it doesn’t work on them.

(Casey Brown) #18

I just had a friend on Facebook say she was weaning herself off sugar and was asking for recommendations on what to substitute, and SO MANY people were replying, “fruit! honey!” I said, “replace sugar with fat,” and it was like I said a curse word…:grimacing: