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(Annie Jenkinson) #81

Get swiggin’ the MCT… go on, chug it back! :smiley:

(Annie Jenkinson) #82

How stupid a cat is that…! I was trying to do my accounts. You can see the assistant was real useful.

(Carl Keller) #83

I customized the Cervantes quote.

(Annie Jenkinson) #84

Reckon you’re right, Carl. I will know my keto diet really changed me if I start craving beady-eyed and slimy sea-things like shrimp, squid, octopus. Ergh!

I love cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts (mmm!) and mushrooms. Or, I did. I haven’t tried them since going keto. I will probably hate them now! One good thing is, if a food can be liquidised, I can chug it back. Just blend and down it goes, no matter how bad it tastes. Potassium is the worst tase ever but I do take that, the powder form.

But a blended lamb cutlet or hunk of beef…clogs up the blades! So I am all off meat! I do think carbs mess up the taste buds. I might try fresh seaweed next, as there’s so much on the sand outside my place… anyone eat that and know what to pick?

(Annie Jenkinson) #85

I bet, ha… certainly frightened the cat! And funnily enough, nobody came to visit ever since.

(Carl Keller) #86

I doubt your love for those will change. I still love all the whole things I used to love. It’s my taste for sugary, starchy things that seems to have changed. Maybe it’s mental because I am not supposed to eat those but I did have some mashed potatoes and gravy not long ago and it wasn’t as good as I remembered it.

I used to eat the stuff a lot. Lightly oiled with sesame oil and quickly toasted over an open stove flame… cooled then rolled up with rice. Mmmmmm!

I haven’t bothered with it a for while. I was eating Japanese Wakame and Kombu seaweeds but 1) I don’t eat rice anymore (maybe I could with riced cauliflower?) and 2) the 2011 tsunami in Japan led to the release of a lot of radioactive water into the ocean and I worry about eating anything that glows in the dark…

(Laura) #87

What a pretty cat and such an amazing story of how you came to have her.

Maybe you had allergies that were affecting your voice and they cleared up. My allergies are much less miserable now. Mine are not even food allergies, just the run of the mill pollens and molds.

Thanks for the very entertaining thread!

(Todd Allen) #88

Probably how Susan Boyle got her start, a few keto bites and then starts singing to her cat Pebbles in the kitchen…

(Annie Jenkinson) #89

Chuckle! I think you’re right but I would not mind her voice one bit. Mind you, where she comes from, they swig something stronger… it’s Bonnie Scotland, don’t ya know!

(Annie Jenkinson) #90

Damn you, man! Why’d you have to go mention mashed potatoes???

They are a weakness. And I have some in the freezer. Dammit! Mmmm… mash and gravy… mash and butter…ohhhh. And it’s gone midnight, time for cravings to start haunting me.

I do hope I don’t lose my taste for sprouts and cabbage. But as I lost my taste for meat, who knows?

(Annie Jenkinson) #91

Aw, you’re welcome, Laura, loved the banter even if I got cut off in my prime halfway through. I do love banter and enjoy a bit of a competition too, so watch out for more!

I think you might be right with the allergies thing, maybe, certainly some intolerance. The oddest part was that the oils started to burn my throat, and after a few days–lo and behold, a singing voice came. Nobody could be more agog than I am.

Can keto turn me into a heavenly angel… ?! Just askin’… :smiley:

Nah, probably not. Done too many wicked things!

(Annie Jenkinson) #92

Seaweed… ha, the radioactivity probably rules out my Scottish weed, then! Damn. Back to deep fried Mars bars…

(Carl Keller) #93

I’ve got Irish blood in me and if I can give up potatoes for months at a time, then anyone can. :wink: But I’m telling you that since my taste buds woke up, they don’t taste as good as they used to. My late grandmother would probably smack me for saying that.

When in doubt, fry your veg in bacon grease. You could fry a dirty sock in bacon grease and it would taste delicious (I imagine).

I’d take the Scottish weed over the glow in the dark Japanese stuff every time.

No need to go ketocidal on us. Save the Mars bar and give it to someone you don’t like. :wink:

(Karen) #94

Interesting. I’ve always been a singer. I belong to several choirs. I haven’t noticed any change my voice. But it is a great thing to sing, and a blessing.

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #95

Actually not amusing at all. My dad who is in moderate cognitive decline walked to the store three blocks from their apartment, did his shopping, went to the parking lot, couldn’t find the car, got despondent, maybe angry, store management tried to help him, but he couldn’t remember what their car looked like, so they called my mom, who was 20 minutes out, to come and help him. Was very stressful for a 70+ year old man, his wife who was recovering from knee surgery, and his kids when we found out.

I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that one or both of the elderly couple in the UK were similarly suffering from a progressive degenerative brain disease like Alzheimer’s or Dementia… good that the council was nice enough to waive the fine.

(Margie) #96

:joy::smiley::laughing::smiley::smile:

(Trudy) #97

Speaking of being able to smell!!! Got my granddaughters a happy meal from McDonald’s (bad Nana!! I know, but they didn’t think so -wink-). So we’re driving g off and they’re diving into their chicken nuggets, I’ve smlled these things for years, but for the first time they smelled more like corn nuggets than chicken nuggets! So I taste one! Sure enough I could even taste the corn! Must be in the breading.