I’m a senior nurse in a site management team at night in a busy hospital. We (3 of us) try and make time to get together to eat during the night.
I have gone down 2 uniform sizes in past months with considerable health improvements and my colleagues are very supportive and non judgemental. A few have even joined me on the keto diet.
Why then is it my guilty pleasure to shock the shit out of em!
Last night I had cream of celery soup, some flaxseed bread which I loaded with butter, then cheese and a slice of pate! All the while I could sense a few sideways glances and raised eyebrows! Then I had a few blackberries with a half and half mixture of bio Yogurt and cream!
They had salad, sandwiches, low fat yogurts blah blah blah!
When I go out to lunch with friends I beg their uneaten butter and just chuck it on my veg!
Do you guys like to shock somtimes?
Guilty pleasure
Here’s a real-shocker:
Wolf-down a couple slices of pizza (with friends/colleagues present):
Reaction: “…How can you do that, I thought you were keto?..”
Answer: “…I can do that because my primary source of nutrition is not carbohydrates which means my health reserve or metabolic tolerance is such that it is not going to do me any harm! …”
I do enjoy helping myself to some bacon and cream cheese, and explaining that it is for my health.
I like the “give me a double bacon cheeseburger with extra bacon and hold the bun…I am on a diet”
I am an introvert but, I have done the “shock” thing a few times within my limited opportunities.
The thing you might want to keep in mind is that those around you will adapt - become essentially unshockable through repeated exposure.
Best not to “up your shock game” too far into that scenario but also, best to keep your keto basics going (i.e. if this need to shock is fueling your WOE discipline, pre-plan how you’ll react when when that fuel is gone).
I’m on a therapeutic ketogenic diet so I’ll HAVE to eat fat. If I’m out with friends and family eating, I’ll have to get a lot of fat for my meal. The easiest place to do that is at a coffee shop and just getting an 8 oz - 12 oz cup with just heavy cream. I get weird looks but I’m still loosing weight. 
I dont think I could ever trust myself to wolf down some pizza! I guess I could eat the topping and use the base as a frisbee!
Oh yeah, I definitely love to shock. My favorite is explaining (while eating bacon with sour cream, for instance) that all that fat has raised my HDL and lowered my trigs. Or casually telling someone they MIGHT want to check their blood sugar after eating the whole-wheat cereal.
You know what’s funny is when you’re eating fatty foods and feeling good about it while you’re friends binge on carbs and are thinking, that looks so unhealthy while you’re thinking the same exact thing about them!
Very likely something you intuitively know already but, just in case…or just in case your shock cravings are clouding your thinking…
You may want to be very careful to ensure you don’t do this with your patients.
Addictive as it is - and fun with each new audience - all you need is someone to infer it is somehow a recommendation instead of just a story.
Then you might have a job-in-jeopardy talk with HR - probably best avoided no matter how tempting.
Rob I thank you for your concern, but I somehow feel I may have shocked you!
Let me reassure you. I have not changed my WOE in order to shock, rather I have a mild (not extreme or addictive) guilty pleasure observing the reactions of some people at my WOE- it being so different to what they would expect considering my weight loss and good health.
I never eat in front of patients, nor give dietary advice.
Rest assured I am not running around eating lumps of lard in order to shock people!
