Dark chocolate

[FolkGuitar]

2 hours ago, rumak said:

 

Are you buying the ingredients ( Cacao powder and Cacao Butter at Yok ?   Or Rimping ?     Please send your recipe ( which i will immediately hand to my "chef" ) 

 

thanks

100% cocoa powder, Food-grade cocoa butter, sweetener of choice, (I also add a spoonful of vanilla extract and a pinch of salt. ) I buy where ever I can find the best prices, and still not sacrifice quality.  As for proportions, I just wing it. Make it as rich as you'd like and as sweet as you'd like. If you prefer milk chocolate, add powdered milk, NOT fresh milk. 🙂

[scubascuba3]

8 hours ago, KhunLA said:

Just common sense eating ... sugar is simply bad for you, so eliminate as much as possible.   Fat & protein is good for your

You say it as if it's fact, just your opinion, plenty of people live on carbs, low fat, lower protein and totally healthy

[DD86]

23 hours ago, FolkGuitar said:

Don't have to be a scientist to know that there are carbs in ALL veggies. While there are no vegetables that contain zero carbohydrates, there are many that have very low carbohydrate content. 

 

So low you might neglect it or stop living/eating. There is also alcohol in some produce. Also negletable; never heard of drunk babies after eating bananas.

[FolkGuitar]

On 3/19/2025 at 6:49 PM, KhunLA said:

I'm not on a low carb diet, I'm on a low sugar dining lifestyle, and that does include some carbs, especially starchy carbs; flour, potatoes, pasta & rice. 

 

Flour, potatoes, and rice on a low 'sugar' diet? 

All of those convert to sugar once in the body.  One medium potato contains 'about' 25g of carbs that all turn into sugar. The body can't use a potato as is. It will convert it to sugar for cellular energy.
Pasta and rice aren't far behind. Once a week for each is fine on a low-sugar diet, but more than that... it ain't a low-sugar diet anymore!

[KhunLA]

On 3/21/2025 at 11:00 AM, FolkGuitar said:

 

Flour, potatoes, and rice on a low 'sugar' diet? 

All of those convert to sugar once in the body.  One medium potato contains 'about' 25g of carbs that all turn into sugar. The body can't use a potato as is. It will convert it to sugar for cellular energy.
Pasta and rice aren't far behind. Once a week for each is fine on a low-sugar diet, but more than that... it ain't a low-sugar diet anymore!

Those are the carbs I avoid, or restrict intake.   Potatoes are down to Tater Tots, a couple times a month, instead of some potatoes daily.  Pasta is now egg noodles, and only a couple times a month, instead of weekly.   Bread is maybe, maybe 1 slice a day average, OK, it's a large slice, but usually <100 gr, instead of half a loaf    And whole wheat & rye flour vs just white.  Homemade only and no sugar added.

 

When I do eat starchy carbs, they're usually loaded up with fat & protein, to slow the sugar/insulin spike.  Eat lots of fibrous carbs; green veggies, some fermented.  Don't really miss anything.  

 

Have my cheat days, and try to keep them to once or twice a month, so it's just a day or 2 spiking, and not a constant intake that would effect my glucose level, and that stays 5.3-5.5.  Just a daily blood sugar spike.  And I usually feel the negative effects of that, so an easy reminder to not indulge much any more.

 

Main difference in diet is pastries, instead of daily, way too much, they're pretty much cut out completely, except them cheat days.   Non cheat days, and it's homemade Cheesecake, with minimal sugar per serving.

 

Being a home cook, I control all the ingredients and easy to make good tasting, whole foods, with little to no sugar.   Type of, when and how you eat your sugar, carbs makes a difference also.  A tsp of sugar in you coffee, washing down you bacon & eggs isn't going to have much effect on you blood sugar level.   I still drink my coffee black for for those that don't, be happy, don't sweat it.

 

Just don't put 3 tsp in your coffee, while being sedentary for a few hours reading and posting on AN all day, on an empty stomach.   Your ketones will stop doing their thing, and you'll get a spike you'd probably want to avoid, especially everyday.

[KhunLA]

On 3/20/2025 at 3:36 AM, scubascuba3 said:

You say it as if it's fact, just your opinion, plenty of people live on carbs, low fat, lower protein and totally healthy

Too much sugar is bad for you, that is a fact.   Ask any pre or actual diabetic.  Or all those over weight blobs waddling around.  Obesity usually is not from eating a keto or carnivore diet.

[FolkGuitar]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

Those are the carbs I avoid, or restrict intake.   Potatoes are down to Tater Tots, a couple times a month, instead of some potatoes daily.  Pasta is now egg noodles, and only a couple times a month, instead of weekly.   Bread is maybe, maybe 1 slice a day average, OK, it's a large slice, but usually <100 gr, instead of half a loaf    And whole wheat & rye flour vs just white.  Homemade only and no sugar added.

 

When I do eat starchy carbs, they're usually loaded up with fat & protein, to slow the sugar/insulin spike.  Eat lots of fibrous carbs; green veggies, some fermented.  Don't really miss anything.  

 

Have my cheat days, and try to keep them to once or twice a month, so it's just a day or 2 spiking, and not a constant intake that would effect my glucose level, and that stays 5.3-5.5.  Just a daily blood sugar spike.  And I usually feel the negative effects of that, so an easy reminder to not indulge much any more.

 

Main difference in diet is pastries, instead of daily, way too much, they're pretty much cut out completely, except them cheat days.   Non cheat days, and it's homemade Cheesecake, with minimal sugar per serving.

 

Being a home cook, I control all the ingredients and easy to make good tasting, whole foods, with little to no sugar.   Type of, when and how you eat your sugar, carbs makes a difference also.  A tsp of sugar in you coffee, washing down you bacon & eggs isn't going to have much effect on you blood sugar level.   I still drink my coffee black for for those that don't, be happy, don't sweat it.

 

Just don't put 3 tsp in your coffee, while being sedentary for a few hours reading and posting on AN all day, on an empty stomach.   Your ketones will stop doing their thing, and you'll get a spike you'd probably want to avoid, especially everyday.

 

Sounds like a very healthy, yet enjoyable way to deal with diet.
Keep it up!  🙂

 

[scubascuba3]

1 hour ago, KhunLA said:

Too much sugar is bad for you, that is a fact.   Ask any pre or actual diabetic.  Or all those over weight blobs waddling around.  Obesity usually is not from eating a keto or carnivore diet.

Most of the blobs are addicted to junk food, high fat/carb combos, the fat makes them insulin resistant ,carnivore/keto is just a fad like Atkins 

[hotandsticky]

27 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Most of the blobs are addicted to junk food, high fat/carb combos, the fat makes them insulin resistant ,carnivore/keto is just a fad like Atkins 

 

 

Most of the 'blobs' are addicted to LEO, Chang, Archa etc

 

To be clear, sugar is the worst culprit for insulin resistance:-

 

• How Sugar Affects Insulin:

  When you consume sugar, your body breaks it down into glucose, which enters the bloodstream, raising blood sugar levels. 

   
• Insulin's Role:

  The pancreas then releases insulin to help cells absorb glucose from the blood for energy. 

   
• Insulin Resistance:

  If you consistently consume large amounts of sugar, your body may become less sensitive to insulin over time, a condition known as insulin resistance. 

[scubascuba3]

10 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

 

 

Most of the 'blobs' are addicted to LEO, Chang, Archa etc

 

To be clear, sugar is the worst culprit for insulin resistance:-

 

• How Sugar Affects Insulin:

  When you consume sugar, your body breaks it down into glucose, which enters the bloodstream, raising blood sugar levels. 

   
• Insulin's Role:

  The pancreas then releases insulin to help cells absorb glucose from the blood for energy. 

   
• Insulin Resistance:

  If you consistently consume large amounts of sugar, your body may become less sensitive to insulin over time, a condition known as insulin resistance. 

To be clear it's more complicated than that, focus on the fat for insulin resistance 

[hotandsticky]

26 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

To be clear it's more complicated than that, focus on the fat for insulin resistance 

 

 

You are talking visceral fat, not dietary fat (although the bad fats are indeed bad)..

 

 

I will concentrate on minimising carbs (mainly to the good ones) and focus on an intake of protein and (good) fats. 

[KhunLA]

3 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Most of the blobs are addicted to junk food, high fat/carb combos, the fat makes them insulin resistant ,carnivore/keto is just a fad like Atkins 

Sugar has a direct effect on you insulin resistance.    Diabetics monitor their sugar/glucose levels, not the far & cholesterol levels.

 

Excess of anything & everything will make you fat, but sugar, starchy carbs, whether unprocessed, processed or ultra processed will directly affect your insulin resistance.

 

Excess fat will obviously add fat to you body, not argument there, but sugar in carbs will also.

 

 

Another key is when & how you eat your carbs.  As I state quite often.  You need to give those ketones & super ketones time to work.   If your downing more than a few alcohol beverages over night, go to sleep, with those sugar & carbs, then 6-8 hrs later, wake and have the sugar in coffee, low fat high carb brekkie, then those ketones didn't do much overnight to burn that sugar, carbs & fat.

 

Hence my 15-18 hr intermittent fast overnight, and easy when 6-8 of those hrs are while you're sleeping.  Since doing that, I don't really need to think about how much I eat, just when I eat.  Never being a brekkie person, black coffee when I wake till about noon is fine with me.   That last snack, before 2000 hrs.   Between 1200 & 1800 hrs, I pretty much eat whatever and as much as I won't.   Just easy on the starchy carbs & sugar.

 

As stated also, a few times, that works for me, and took my glucose down from 6.3 to 5.3-5.5.  Along with weight from 90+ kgs to <80kg, and BP from 140s/90s to <120/80.

 

That works for me, and would recommend to anyone to try it for 3 months, if weight, glucose # and BP# are on the high side of normal of above.

 

Is it for everyone, or even needed, probably not.  But if after 40 or50 ish yrs old, or in retirement, and your weight, glucose and or BP is not where you want, and you're having difficulty with either or all, then give it try.

 

Takes very little will power and then simply becomes a natural eating lifestyle.  Easier if you know how to cook.  You'll find whole foods in our frig, and very little, if any processed foods at all.  Some of our fruits & veggies even come out of the garden & greenhouse.   

 

Growing & cooking your own food, is a nice hobby, and uses up quite a bit of spare time in that relaxed retirement.   

 

I'm a broken record, but if it helps 1 person as it helped me, then worth repeating.  From other postings, I'm not alone in my thinking or having good results.

[scubascuba3]

Fat people always trying to tell me what to eat 😆, no need for extreme diets unless you have poor self control

[KhunLA]

3 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

Fat people always trying to tell me what to eat 😆, no need for extreme diets unless you have poor self control

I wouldn't call my keto ish dining lifestyle a diet at all.   Really does include all the food groups, though different ratios than the recommended 'food pyramid'.  Like any new routine, once in, it takes little to know effort or will power at all.

 

No different the sticking to a low fat, high carb diet.  A carnivore diet would be extreme for me, as a bit too restrictive.  Even a hard core keto diet, may be a bit much for me, as 80-90% fat, 15-20% protein, and only 5% carb, isn't going to work with me.   I know I couldn't stick to it, and would be mentally frustrating trying to.

[hotandsticky]

3 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Most of the blobs are addicted to junk food, high fat/carb combos, the fat makes them insulin resistant ,carnivore/keto is just a fad like Atkins 

 

 

You won't like this then...yum, yum.

 

 

[frantick]

OP, a handful of Tulip brand chocolate/dark chocolate chips from the 550g bag in the freezer satisfied my cravings. Cheap for chocolate, but I'm guessing totally yuck and bad for you posts to follow... 

[topt]

On 3/23/2025 at 3:36 PM, hotandsticky said:

 

 

You won't like this then...yum, yum.

 

 

That looks interesting - what is the green stuff at 4 o'clock?

[hotandsticky]

11 minutes ago, topt said:

That looks interesting - what is the green stuff at 4 o'clock?

 

 

Not sure, but I would go for Edamame beans