This time of year really demonstrates

(Tim W) #1

When you are trying to cut sugar/carbs/processes food, the holidays are a real challenge aren’t they?

I’m lucky, I work from home, I have not had to deal with the constant “gifts” of carbs/sugar that my wife (who works in a medical office of all places) has had to fend off.

This time of year really demonstrates how hung up we, as a species, are on food, especially sugar and convenience food. I know everyone has the best of intentions but passing around containers of sugar/death food, it really makes me wonder if society as a whole is going “get it” (they aren’t). It’s simply too much work/too hard for a majority of the population and the “forces of evil” are simply too well aligned, too well funded, too well established in the zeitgeist. Big food, big pharma, big supplements, their combined strength is enormous and the general public is too busy, too tired, too strung out on their products to “see the matrix” for what it is.

Why are we so fixated on food? My thought, “it’s the genetics stupid”. Our basic “programming” will always lead us to survive in the short term, even if that means we damage ourselves long term, the species really only needs to survive until we’ve reached and passed the age of reproduction, can it be this simple? That our genes guide us to the “easy answer” the high carb/high sugar diet that ensures survival and continued opportunity to pass along our genetic material? It takes real effort to work towards health and away from “ease”.

In the meantime, I hope to be able to influence those around me to make positive change, I see keto getting a big bump in 2018, and then the public will move onto the next thing, they’ll call keto a fad and jump to the next big thing that’s pushed onto them via media outlets (anyone hear the back story behind the “kale bump” interesting story that one…). When the public moves on and people feel like there’s no more money to be made from keto, we true adherents will continue to keep calm and keto on!

Happy holidays everyone! I hope you enjoy some bacon and eggs in celebration!

(Keto in Katy) #2

I am fortunate to work from home as well and avoid the onslaught of holiday carbage. Although at this point, 4.5 years into keto, it is not difficult to stay away from the foods that make me feel crummy. More than anything I enjoy feeling good.

I agree that 2018 will see a surge in people moving away from poor eating habits, reducing sweets and processed food. Maybe not full keto but improving none the less. There is too much anecdotal evidence, research, and popular opinion swinging this way right now, in my opinion.

I remain hopeful.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #3

Well, when you put it that way . . . :rofl:

My dad ordered this fancy fruitcake from Texas that has been sitting in the kitchen calling my name all week. :frowning:

(Jack Brien) #4

It’s quite depressing watching people kill my children just a little bit with their well intentioned gifts over which I have no control.

(Brian) #5

LOL!! And the images of the made-in-1964 fruitcake, regifted fondly for the past 53 Christmas gatherings, dance through my head as we speak. :smiley:

(Tim W) #6

Yeah, I’ve got a 17 year old, her face is broken out from all the “holiday cheer” but she won’t listen to mom and dad, neither does the 23 year old “vegetarian” (carbohydratearian) who is trending towards type II diabetes and won’t listen either. So frustrating as we set good examples. let them know we love them no matter what, and stand by to offer assistance (and they know that) but they just keep on shoving in the carbs and sugars…

I guess we fall into that trap, refusing to change until the pain becomes too much to bear. I just wish society would quit equating food with love and sugar with pleasure.

(Jack Brien) #7

Just trying not to turn into a psycho about it!

(Darlene Horsley) #8

I use Fruit Cakes as a doorstop! LOL
Sorry, but I have hated those things since I was a child.

(Darlene Horsley) #9

^ oops that didn’t work. @PaulL
I hope your door stop stops calling your name. :wink:

(Tim W) #10

Same here! I try really hard not to harp and simply set a good example. I know it’s tough for them too with so much energy/money/effort being used to ensure we ALL want fast food/sugar filled process food. Hell, you can’t even check out of Home depot without facing a wall of junk food/sodas as you wait to pay.

#11

Yeah, start calling the fruitcake ‘deathfood’ in your head. Might help make it less appealing :laughing: or deathcake?

Agreed that deathfood is such a great term!

(Randy) #12

Carbage, carbage everywhere at work these days. But it’s powerless over me now. Other than coffee with a little HWC at 5 am., on work days I fast until I get home at 3PM.

When invited to partake, I just say no thank you, and move along. I’ve lost 90 lbs since March, and that stuff doesn’t even look like food anymore.

(Tim W) #13

Glad that folks like the term. I’ll have to start using it more. We should probably think on death a little more often than we do (I do a lot of stoic reading) and that term will help me do that, when I’m asking my kids if they are enjoying their death food, maybe it will help them get the piont.

Great idea! When I was working, I did the same. I was in an office environment and people couldn’t go more than a few hours without stuffing something in their faces (or having a sugared up drink). i found that fasting made it easy to pass up the trash they wanted to share with everyone (even if was from a place of love, it’s still trash). Eventually, everyone stopped asking me if I wanted a “insert name of deathfood option here”.

(Tim W) #14

(The following is what happens when you are on day 5 of a 5 day fast and can’t sleep more than 5 hours because ketones are so high… I apologize in advance…) :smile:

It’s beginning to look a lot like deathfood, everywhere you go!

Take a look in the five and ten, donuts on sale again
and lots of food that makes your ass grow!

It’s begining to look a lot like deathfood,
carbs in every store
But the prettiest sight to see is the bacon that will be
on your own gas stove

A pair of sugared-up treats and a tin full of wheat
Is the wish of Barney and Ben
Bars that will pop and make you not walk
is the hope of Janice and Jen
Mom and Dad can hardly wait for keto to start again!

It’s begining to look a lot like deathfood
Everywhere you go
There’s a bucks in the grand hotel, one in the park as well
It’s the kind that serves sugar don’t you know!

It’s beginning to look a lot like deathfood,
Soon the diets will start,
And the thing that will make them king is the bacon that you fling
Right into your heart
.
Sure it’s deathfood, once a-more!

(Michael ) #15

Yeah, don’t neef to add those to the things i miss list. Hershey almond bars on the other hand. Lilys are just as good but pricey

#16

OMG I was cracking up laughing

(Sophie) #17

It’s easier for me to liken sugar to arsenic. It’s poison, it slowly kills, people get sick and don’t realize why until it’s too late.

#18

I just say no to sugar.

(Dameon Welch-Abernathy) #19

I work from home as well (when not traveling). Wife and daughter have made a LOT of cookies, none of which are keto-friendly. It was so sweet-smelling when they were out cooling, it actually made me feel mildly nauseous!

I only had one of said cookies, and maybe a small bite of another one. So. Not. Worth. It. Back to my coffee, tea, or broth.

KCKO

(Tim W) #20

For many years my job was to sneak cookies from the kitchen while the wife and kids made them, I must have eating 2000K in cookies at times. Now, I make a batch of keto cowboy cookies and nosh on them while they make non-keto stuffs (almost have the wife onboard with not making that stuff anymore, she does enjoy baking and we know that giving keto cookies would result in most of them going in the trash).