Had a Cheat Meal with Carb Blockers Today: Here's what happened

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#61

Absolutely, I’m waking up to the fact they are detrimental and simply can’t be taken in small quantities…and I usually buy them in bulk :worried:

I’d put the majority of my recent (temporary!) weight gain all down to eating nuts.

#62

So here’s a true story. When I was around 11 or 12, my school friends nicknamed me ‘peanut’ because every time there was a party or sleepover and there were bowls of salted peanuts available, I would just gorge on them to the point where when the salt got too much, I’d go and rinse them under the tap so I could keep on eating them :rofl:

(Robin) #63

If I ever decide to commit suicide they will probably call it death by macadamia.

#64

Macadamias are just… I don’t know how they can be so ‘luxurious’ xD

#65

Carb blockers don’t exist, they’re a fairy tale. Glucose Disposal Agents are real, they help, and they help shuttle more to muscles and ease a spike, they do NOT “block” anything.

That’s what the overwhelming majority of us here believe, clearly you’re the one not paying attention if that’s not very clear to you. There’s so many of us doing completely different things here it’s crazy.

Seems you’re just hyper focusing on those that don’t line up with your mindset and looking for a reason to be offended. Also, the comparisons to alcoholism are based in science as sugar and carbs cause the same dependencies and same dopamine responses, which is why that analogy is used so often. Again, seems you’re looking to be offended.

If you’re that sensitive to different opinions, good luck to you in life, seriously. Hopefully you decide to stick around.

(Allie) #66

You know those KG tubs of PB… ? Yup, they did that to me. A few times I binned half eaten tubs knowing they’re no good for me, only to order more a few weeks later thinking it would be OK. Just have to not buy them anymore.

#67

Yeah.

I’ve been grazing (which actually equates to binging because it’s continuous, even if slow) on KP jumbo bags of dry roasted peanuts. My achilles tendon.

Just having an early night, lying up with the pup (who was also eating the peanuts) watching YouTube videos until sleepy.

Before you know it, half a bag is chinned and you’re disgusted with yourself.
So put them away, but still end going back ‘for one more hit’ later. Yip, no control there, no good.

:slightly_frowning_face:

#68

YUP! My graze is definitely normal peoples binge! :rofl::rofl::rofl: My binge… get out a camera and document it for science!

(Allie) #69

Can totally relate :pleading_face:

#70

I never could eat more than a little nuts and honorary nuts except peanuts.
I was a true peanut addict. It doesn’t help that I spend hours in the kitchen, next to an always present big jar full with the stuff.
Some items being available all the time has a desensitizing effect, well, definitely not peanuts.
I always could eat a lot of it, like 100g. I eventually stopped as it doesn’t feel normal food, has no noticeable satiating effect and possibly my body had problems with it before, I just never felt it.
Of course the 100g lasted for a few mins only, at most as it’s a very small amount and very easy to eat.

Now my upper limit is maybe 50g…? It’s a huge amount as my normal portion is 5g, sometimes 10. I usually easily eat only one piece, sometimes I just smell the jar :smiley: I LOVE the smell.
But an important motivation to do carnivore is that I get free from peanuts. I never miss them on carni. I don’t actually miss them ever but they are there, being lovely, I am not fully satiated yet (not like they help) and what could go wrong…?
I only like them salted and very roasted. And we usually buy those. I am a huge fun of crunch too… But the smell and taste is wonderful. A tad sweet but excessive salting helps with that and anyway, a tiny sweetness isn’t a problem. I don’t like cashew (just the texture) because it was always was way too sweet for me. I dislike much sweetness in my savory food, that’s why I hate meat dishes with any kind of sugar with a passion except a few dishes that can pull it off somehow. And I can’t feel the sugar if it’s minimal.

I already googled chinned when I saw you using it the second time (and differently from the first) but it didn’t give me the desired result so please tell me about its most common meanings… I can take educated guesses from the context but it seems it is a term with various meanings…
It’s basically mean “eaten” here?

(Allie) #71

Yes :slight_smile:

#72

Hi Shinita,

If you have been chinned, it mainly means you’ve been walloped in the face by someone.
But it can also mean you are fatigued…in the British Army, after endurance runs, troops often say they are chinned or ‘on their chin strap’, which basically means they are physically drained and hanging from their helmet’s chin strap.

In my context, it’s a bit of a Coopdawg-ism, but I’m sure others use it in this way too.
It relates to this use of the term:
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…only in my context, I’m talking about chinning large quantities of roasted peanuts without them even ‘touching the sides’ (not affecting) of my satiety.

#73

Oh it makes sense to me now! I will always imagine someone with tilted back head in this situation, that will be fun.

#74

I love language discussion… I, too, interpreted “chinned” in this thread to mean to eat. So, I guess if you chin too much you end up with too much chin? :grin:

#75

Oh that’s another way to interpret why chin was used!
I like to understand things. Even my own language is full with sayings making not much sense… Sometimes they are even wrong like “it’s worth as much as fur on a cat” (it means it worth nothing but the fur on cats is important, good for so many things!) but sometimes we just need explanation to get it. We use words no one knows the meanings anymore… Or just a few. And I am curious and like to know the origin of words, terms, sayings. Even species names sometimes…

(Edith) #76

I’m sure that is mean in terms of human greed. No one is going to be making a luxurious cat fur coat.

(Uwe F Herle) #77

My experience is , that carb blocker dont work.
But Fat Binder work well. They bind until arround 80g fat, and the body cant use it.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #78

I’m confused. In a low-carbohydrate diet, fat becomes the main source of the body’s energy. Why would you want to block it?

The whole point of a ketogenic diet is to lower carbohydrate intake sufficiently to allow insulin to drop, so that fat can leave adipose tissue and be metabolised. Why on earth would anyone on such a diet wish to inhibit fatty-acid metabolism?

Not only that, but fat provides so much energy (over twice the calories per gram) that we need far less fat to get the same number of calories from a given amount of carbohydrate.

My feeling is that it is better to limit carb intake than to rely on carb blockers, whether they work or not. And then to replace the energy lost from carbohydrate with energy for fat. Fatty acids yield slightly more ATP than a molecule of glucose does, without advanced glycation end-products and without oxidative damage.

(KM) #79

My thought on carb blockers is the same as my thought on Plan B: I hope I don’t need it, I don’t intend to put myself in a situation where I do, but if it happens, it’s good to know there might be a way to avoid an unwanted consequence of the situation. The world’s not a perfect place, we’re not perfect people, and that really, really, really appealing gigantic piece of deep fried chicken just might leap down my throat one day.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #80

You can still eat the chicken, simply peel off the breadcrumbs. Or limit the rest of your carb intake for the day. Easy-peasy.