Low carbs making you crazy??? - Page 2

[glitterbits333]

Originally Posted by oceanbaby

It makes me crazy. I was at a pizza place and they had a low carb special - it was a crustless pizza. They put the sauce on a plate, and layered it with meat and cheese!

[mahdokht]

I don't eat artificial food. If it's naturally low in fat (like strawberries), sugar (like chicken) or carbs (like mayonnaise) that's fine but I like my milk full fat, my apples full sugar and my bread FULL CARB!

[Lucky Charm]

I've seen "carb" smart milk

Caytlyn, I have too....but its high in fat! It has extra cream or something, upping the fat content!

[Greaseball]

And what the HELL is LOW CARB BREAD?!

[Lucky Charm]

GB, have you tried it? kinda tastes like carboard.....

[nikirj]

DH and I are both sick of this. I swear if I hear another ad start with "watching your carbs? Well the new...." I'll scream, right there in the grocery store.

Remember a while back there was a Jack-In-The-Box commercial, asking people what they wanted in a burger (a room full of men) and they said "meat and cheese" and something about not needing a bun...well, it is reality now.

Every time we go to the store, we throw high-carbohydrate foods into the cart with a happy "uh oh - CARBS!" spoken incredulously like a radio commercial we heard a while back. We're balanced-diet kind of people and won't be going on any of these diets any time soon.

[rubysmomjess]

UGH... I hate this fad (atleast I hope that what this is). Don't eat apples 'cause they're high in carbs...that sounds like great diet to me. Don't eat heathly fruit and vegetables, eat meat and fat and yuck.

What about a fad where you ate small portions and then went for a walk!

I love my carbs... pasta, bread, fruits and veggies...yum!

ETA: My dh wanted to try this and I said fine but he would have to cook for himself ( I don't cook hamburger, bacon, etc). It lasted like a week and he said he felt terrible the whole time

[mountain]

Yes, yes, it's so nice to have "Gout" around as a prevalent disease again...nothing like bringing medieval diseases back to life...

Oh, and the constipation that comes from only eating protein sources, that should make America a kinder, gentler nation...Happy Ketosis!

My only reaction to yet another stupid fad diet is that the stupid die young. People who follow this fad to the extreme will take years off their lives by not eating the foods that bring health & vitality. We as a country should be growing more fruits & veg to feed the world, not raising excess numbers of livestock that the land can't support.

[flutemandolin]

I wonder if there's any connection between the "craze" and the jump in price of items like milk, eggs, and meat. I'm borderline anemic and I was craving a good steak the other day but yikes, I can't afford it!

I have to laugh when my boss goes out to Burger King or Subway to spend a few dollars a day on their "low carb" offerings, while I sit there feasting on home grown salad and leftover spinach lasagna that didn't cost me anything extra. He thinks he's the one eating healthy.

[Alkenny]

My 27 year old cousin lost ALOT of weight on Atkins...he also jump started his kidney disease from it. Grr!

[Greaseball]

Personally, I'd rather be a little overweight than give up food I like. Maybe if I were really obese, I'd do Atkins, but now? No way!

A few years ago when everyone at my workplace was doing Atkins, I decided to give it a try even though I was only 10 lbs overweight. I did it for 2 days, lost 2 lbs, but it was so not worth it. I was really jittery. Everyone told me if I could just stick with it for a week I wouldn't notice the jitters anymore, but I just said why bother. I can lose weight the old-fashioned way.

I'm about 30 lbs overweight now (but at only 5 weeks postpartum, maybe it doesn't count!) and starting to feel desperate, but still not enough to do Atkins.

[LavenderMae]

Add me to the list. Yesterday at our homeschool group some of the mamas started talking about it and how fast you can loose (hahaha just kidding)LOSE weight that way. I had to get up at and walk away. I am so SICK of hearing about freaking low carb aaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhh. :

[Avonlea]

I am going to join the club.

My husband has been doing 'atkins' on and off for the last 2 years almost. He goes 'off the wagon' every 5 or 6 months for a few weeks, gains the weight back..then starts up all over again.

I refuse to cook all the meat he 'has' to have with this 'diet'. Watching him do this to himself makes me sick. Going to McDonalds and eating the meat patties out of a double cheeseburger along with a side salad of iceberg lettuce and some shredded carrots does NOT equal a healthy meal in the real world, last time I checked. However, if you are a 'carb-counter' this is great thing! ICK!!

I hate the gimmicky 'low-carb' products, ice cream that leaves a skum of ? on your spoon and your tongue. Brownies that taste like chocolate covered sawdust. Tortilla shells and wraps that are dry and awful unless covered with something and warmed up..and even then are hardly edible. Low carb pizza that is notyhing but a glorified cracker with pizza toppings on it.

These foods cost A LOT of money, the ingrediants used to make them are made in a lab somewre, they taste icky, and only one person in the house will eat them. Talk about wasteful.


And any 'diet' that tells you that APPLES or CARROTS are not good for you????HUH!????? So, sorry, no apples, no baked potatoes..no fruit except berries or grapefruit. Makes SOOO much sense to me, really.



I am sick and tired of the whole thing. I refuse to have ANY part in it. I abhor it. My husband is going to die young if he keeps this up, and there is nothing I can do..I am forced to sit back and watch him do it to himself. Good thing he has a $300,000.00 life insurance policy so the house will be paid for and the kids can go to school.

[isosmom]

So so so tired of it. Can I go anywhere w/o people talking about carbs?
MIL follows a lo-carb diet and is visiting next week, but she hangs that on the door when she comes to my house. In my house it's carbs or starve!

[weebitty2]

Originally Posted by sweetbaby3

GB, have you tried it? kinda tastes like carboard.....

Not all of them do!

Arnold's light low-carb rye is REALLY good .. And for the most part, I don't know who else has noticed this though ..

Low-carb bread really isn't low in carbohydrates? On average they bump up the fiber really HIGH (10g/2 slices for the arnold), then shrink it to about 2/3 the size of a normal slice of bread.

So tell me ... how is making it smaller reducing the amount of carbohydrates in it? lol

[Dragonfly]

Originally Posted by Gale Force

I don't eat many carbs, but I eat a whole foods diet, so these ridiculous products drive me crazy. People feel empowered to eat a whole new category of crap.

Yep... as long as it has Splenda it's okay. Ick, I say. I also don't eat many carbs (for my own, personal health reasons), but I don't eat any of that "low-carb" crud. It's so not healthy.

[Dragonfly]

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[be11ydancer]

My DH told me the other day that he was reading about a new low carb...

... Are you ready for this? ...

POTATO. A low carb potato. :Puke

How much genetic engineering did scientists have to do to come up with that?!

[Parthenia]

I LOVE the Low Carb Craze and let me count the ways:

Pasta at the grocery store yesterday was 10 boxes for $4.00!!! Because no one's eating it. More for me!!! yayyy! I can also find whole wheat pasta in the regular grocery store too!

Sprouted wheat bread, which is naturally lower in carbs and more to the point delicious, flavorful, and higher in fiber than the fake whole wheat crap you see at the regular grocery stores is now available at the regular grocery stores.

Better produce selection because fruits and veggies are low carb.

93% lean ground beef thanks to South Beach. Sadly I've lost my taste for red meat, but it was nice while it lasted.

Bigger cheese selection in the grocery stores. I love cheese!

Frozen pizza is cheaper because no one is buying it. MOre for me!

Potatoes are cheaper and sweet potatoes are more widely available.

What I'm totally sick of is the "Atkins Friendly" logo on everything including toilet paper. Atkins is known as Fatkins in our house.

To be honest, I did the South Beach Diet, and lost weight. Of all the ketogenic diets I liked how the book discussed the glycemic index of foods. I am a sugarholic, and it helped curb my sweet tooth. I started eating more fresh whole foods, took walks at lunch, etc. I also liked the emphasis on wholesome foods. I also found that I was horribly constipated during phase 1, so I added much more fiber in my diet, and never gave up coffee.
When I found out I was pg I put the book away, because potato chips help my morning sickness, and I obeyed my craving for more pasta and crackers. The book did help me make better choices, even for the carbs.

What bothers me most about this current diet craze is that they are making crappy unhealthy food seem good for you. But OTOH they did the same thing when low fat was the thing to do. Remember when everything became fat free (and they didn't mention it was full of partially hydrogenated oil)? Remember Olestra???? This too shall pass when the next big thing comes along.

[kate42]

You know it's out of hand when Burger King has a low carb menu.

I, for one, eat a buttload of carbohydrates and am proud of it!