I bought these for gaming: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XD2P21Y/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 but they are perfect for things like this.
What's your KETO - Kryptonite?
Thatās probably 575 more than I need but at $10, who cares. Thank you.
Do we think these are āfood gradeā?
I manage my nuts with a slightly strict portion control. A serving of the almonds I buy fits into the lid of the jar they come in. So I fill the lid, not overflowing, and put the jar out of reach. Itās conscious portion control.
Thatās the trick for anything that you might eat mindlessly. Very solid for nuts. Find a portioning method, and only eat one portion.
Nutbutters are mine. I stopped buying peanut (sugarfree of course) butter unless Iāll use it up in a recipe.
I had to make a rule that I only can have almond butter in my BPC (I use a tsp as an emulsifier) and that works quite well. I also store them in a cabinet I donāt see them all the time.
Coconut milk - full fat but not as low carb as I thought and CERTAINLY not when youāre having almost the whole can! That was early on -i just donāt buy it at all anymore cuzā¦yeah. No can do
Peanuts and macadamias are the worst and can even induce a proper binge-fest followed by guilt followed by punishing myself with fasting. An opened packet of cream cheese in the fridge also suffers from the occasional teaspoon-raid
My kryptonite - Jack Daniels in Diet Pepsi. no insulin response so safe - right?
WRONG. every time I tried to launch a fast and had one of these, the fast conincidentally came to an end.
So now - no more JD in DP.
It probably wonāt help but we used to have ziplock snack bags. They were like maybe half the size of a ziplock sandwich bag, which is smaller than a quart bag. Theyād be a lot closer to the size of what you might be looking for, still a bit large but not nearly as large. Might be worth looking for if youāre interested. Also, not nearly as expensive as a quart bag.
This is a great method⦠if you have the willpower to stick to that! Iāve found that Iām improving my willpower over time, but it isnāt easy. I think plenty of us are working with both food addiction and emotional dependence on eating, which adds an extra challenge to the whole situation. Itās not really about the food itselfā¦
Macadamia nuts⦠and thinly sliced Genoa salami. Crap. I could eat these things to the point of bursting and still feel like I wanted more. Avoid!
Absolutely. I do a lot of bored eating. I find that logging everything in MFP puts a bit of the kibosh on that, though I kind of pigged last night. Nothing that put me off plan, but was not how I would have drawn it up.
I view a lot of the weight loss phase of this program as not just recovering health but learning better habits. It wasnāt that easy to learn to portion my particular almonds like that. And it means sourcing them from Costco⦠I just bought some from Trader Joes, and they come in a pouch⦠Have to come up with a new vessel for them. But itās about learning portions and listening to my appetite. Iām never gonna get better at it unless Iām trying, and thatās gonna be failing sometimes. And thatās gonna have to be a learning experience. Thatās the approach to all the keto foods that are problematic.
Sated lPeanuts/Almonds, nut butters, chedder cheese.
Actually Iāve managed to kick the Almond nut addiction, (GROSS ALERT!) as the last batch I had, one of the Almonds, slipped down my throat, and as my body took control and violently coughed it up, it sliced a cut ln my throat causing a bleed and a trip to A&E!
I tend to keep my distance from that Kryptonite now. Peanuts are nicely rounded of course ho hum.
Itās good to know Iām not alone in these little battles.
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Coffee/cocoa powder with ample heavy cream. At 0.4g carbs per Tablespoon, that cream adds up. Plus 1g for a tsp of cocoa powder. Iām currently limiting myself to one cup per day. And if I canāt stick to that, away it goes.
Macadamia nuts⦠donāt buy them anymore.
Blueberries. ⦠sigh⦠we have a small patch of plants in the garden, so 3 to 4 months of temptation every year. There are worse things of course.
I just planted some blueberry bushes yesterday. They are one of only a very few fruits that I still eat with some regularity. Them and a few strawberries are probably 90% of my fruit, which isnāt much.
Yes, there are worse things, a lot worse.
Macadamia nuts right out of the freezer. I could eat an entire frozen costco size can of those things but always diligently count out my 10 nuts (1 oz), sometimes 15.