You sneaky carbs! I hope you get a belly ache!

(Art ) #1

A few years ago Jimmy Kimmel did his annual Halloween Candy trick and these two kids really stood out.

Ever since then my wife and I use the term when someone finishes any food in the house with out sharing or offering to share first. “You sneaky daddy” is heard most often.

Now I am paraphrasing the term for all of those sneaky carbs that sneak their way in and destroy ketosis.

I watched this video early this AM and discovered I was probably going above my daily goal of 20-25g with just these two sneaky carbs:

57 cashews (27g per 100)

67 garlic (31g out of 100).

What sneaky carbs have you caught since starting your keto journey?

(hottie turned hag) #2

LMAO back when I was raising kids all healthy-like (no junk, no sugar) I used to pretend the candy was collected (because I wanted them to have the trick or treat experience which in our 'hood was a huge affair) to be left out as an “offering” to “the Great Pumpkin” overnight and in the morning he will have left a neat-o present (expensive toy)! This worked until around 4th grade :grin: My one daughter is using it now on her 3 and 5 y/o!

The carbs in cabbage and bell peppers took me by :astonished:

(Art ) #3

The Dr makes a point though - the poison is in the quantity. Fermented cabbage - much of the dirty work has been done for you. Red capsicums - they’re sweet but a few thin decorative slivers shouldn’t hurt as long as you count them.

PS - my 4 year old boy is being led to believe he’s allergic to McDonald’s and other fast food. We don’t and won’t go to those places.

(Katie) #4

I never allowed candy, cake, donuts, soda, etc, etc into the house.
Never ate at fast food places.

The kids wouldn’t be begging for that garbage when it wasn’t even around.

As for fast food or vending machine food…I told them the simple truth…all the junk isn’t food.

They are grown and never go into fast food places…they can smell the chemical smells clearly…as can I…but people raised on that stuff cannot smell how awful it really is.

They are raising their kids without all that junk in their lives … because they cannot stand to have it around them. They tell their own kids the truth…it isn’t food.

(Art ) #5

Katie,

When my wife and I went to get pregnant we spent a year making sure our house was clear of chemicals, perfumes, VOCs, poisons, endocrine disruptors, phthalates, etc.

Do you use things like fabric softeners or air fresheners? Or would you buy a new car or wait a few years and buy one that all of the VOCs have leached out of? Do you wear new clothes or wash them a few times first?

Just curious.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #6

Just about everything except for meat and fat have some carbs. Stuff listed as
0g. Carbohydrates often does have carbs in larger portions. I do a lot of fermentation Art, I was clued into how fermentation eats sugar long before KETO. As a good example 1cup of cooked shredded cabbage is 5.4 carbs, 1cup of sauerkraut is 1.2 carbs.

Eggs, bacon, dairy, coffee, tea, and any plants all have carbs. The amount might be small but they are there.

:cowboy_hat_face:

(hottie turned hag) #7

Same and

same. None of mine ever got into junk food much even as adults; two of them never drink soda.

(Katie) #8

Back in the early 70s…when my kids were little, I was mostly concerned with making sure they had good nutrition… and keeping them away from TV. Throughout the 80s, I felt strongly about limiting the influence of media. It really wasn’t until the 90s that I began to awake to the realization of the amount of toxins in our daily lives. By then the Kids were off to college. Because they were not indoctrinated early by MacDonald…they do not associate those smells with good things…rather they too can smell the chemicals. (Ps. Those smells are deliberately designed by chemical companies in NJ to enhance the addiction for that “food”).

As for my own behavior now…I live in a small RV. I built it myself. No toxic materials are used in my RV or my life. I don’t buy new clothes …so never an issue…I hand wash with borax (which is also great for warding off bugs too) and line dry.

Buy a new car? No. But a new RV? No. I built one myself because I know just how bad the new ones rolling off the lot really are.

(traci simpson) #10

Do you believe it’s the DOSE that matters and not the food?