Trying to explain this WOE to spouse

(Amanda ) #1

Hi everyone,
8 weeks keto and had a frustrating night when my husband brought home marinated steak from Trader Joe’s with 5 grams added sugar for a total of 6g per serving of carbs. I’m reaching out to see if anyone has a quick link to a website or something I can print out to explain to my husband this WOE that isn’t super overwhelming but will help him understand. thank you!!!

(Michel Labelle) #2

If you can explain that on the label you need it to say 3 or less carbs per serving that’s about all it takes. That and if it’s green you can eat it.

I did that for someone who only really eats processed foods. Challenged them to stay under 50 carbs when they were shopping. They got it quick. They could eat anything that did not say sugar in the ingredients, hence buy things without ingredients like vegetables, and unprocessed/marinated meats, meant they could eat them.

Took a few weeks but they then understood how to shop. After that it was about learning to cook.

#3

That doesn’t sound super bad, I still would have ate it.

(Ron) #4

Will this do?

(less is more, more or less) #5

My very supportive wife still finds that I can be “orthorexic” in my quest to cut carbs. I love her dearly and appreciate her support. No print-out will change her mind, as she’s almost as stubborn as I am. My LCHF WoE is not only a quest to better understand myself, but my relationship with my family as well.

I wish there was an easier answer but there are so many variables that go into this mix here, isn’t there? Sometimes I find it easier to take my lumps, have a reduced meal when these events happen, and make up for it elsewhere.

(Troy) #6

Steps to take for this one

I Thank you for the effort and thoughtfulness😄
Educate in a loving :heart_eyes: way , label read
Eat it perhaps just as a minor “compromise “
LASTLY…Inform, if this happens again, he will be sleeping on the couch :joy::joy:

(Kaiden) #7

Well, now there’s ketowhiteboard.info, for short (about a minute) videos on various subjects, but I’m not sure if put-together foods are going to be a subject.

One time, I told my wife, “I want to eat a lot of carbs, so I’m going to eat THIS MUCH carbs.” I’m not sure if I made the shape with my hands, or just picked up the large-sized salad box of kale and spinach.

Six carbs, especially six net carbs, is a lot of kale and spinach.

The best way I can explain a Trader Joe’s steak vs. regular-ass steak and salad, well, is just to show (or visualize) it.

If you’re total carnivore, sorry if my advice is utterly useless. if you have a 20, 10, or even 5 carb limit, salad on.

If you’re using the Vogal Rule (“carbs in kale don’t count”), you can use blueberries or something else to demonstrate, I suppose. I’m more of a leafy green guy when it comes to what I save my carbs for.

(Amanda ) #8

Thanks all! I will use a little bit of everything here so I appreciate it. In hindsight, I should have just eaten it and said, you know in the future, can you try to get meats with 3 carbs or less? I also asked him to look for the trader joe’s pasta sauce that supposedly has 4 grams per serving. He came home with an 8 gram carb bottle so I was feeling like he was really really ignoring me…turns out he read the 3% on the bottle that is next to the 8g carbs, as in 3% DV.

SO, great reminder that not all of us obsess over labels and know how to read them!! :joy:

#9

I’d have just rinsed off the marinate from the steak, you would have made your point and eaten it too. Be patient with your spouse, he thinks he is doing the right thing, just keep informing him of what you are doing and it will sink in for him too.

(Amanda ) #10

I wish I had thought of that! I basically had an adult temper tantrum. so lame!!

#11

Lol, that gets the message across too.

(Kaiden) #12

I’ve done similar. Once, I purchased a bag of coconut strips because I read the allergen declaration as the ingredient list, thus totally missing sugar as the number two ingredient.