you eat bacon as a "snack"

your kid's favorite treat is pork rinds

you go to lunch with a group of people from work and they ask before you go "well, what can you eat?"

your family of 4 goes through 5 doz eggs in a week

These were great!!! And here's one I haven't heard mentioned yet...

Your children's friends no longer ask, "Can I eat at your house?" What, NO Poptarts or Hamburger Helper?!?!

Tara

You catch yourself saying out loud in the kitchen, "What ELSE can I drown in butter?"

Great posts folks!

Julie

1) when asked over for dinner, you ask "what are you making", which before would be taboo. If it isn't low carb, you eat before you go then only have the salad.

2) Mayo is always on your shopping list, no matter how many times you go shopping

3) you are the cheapest drunk around........I have found low carbing, I can no longer handle barely any alcohol.'

4) there is never room in your freezer as it is always full with meat...

You know you are hard core LCer when:
You see someone who is overwhieight and have to resist the urge to run up to this stranger and share the wounderful WOE that can help the poor soul!

...maybe it is just me, but this one is true. I know I wish someone had told me about this years ago

Karen...I'm with you on that one. There are may people where I work who are extremely overweight and every time I see one of them, I have to fight the urge to do some low carb "proselytizing". I've learned, though, that advice that is not asked for is generally poorly received and restrain myself.

...you find yourself washing the same pots and pans 5 or 6 times a day because you're cooking so much.

...you buy a 6-pack of bacon at the warehouse club but don't bother to freeze any of it because it'll all be cooked and eaten by the weekend anyway.

...you increase the size of the casserole you're cooking for dinner to be sure you have a good portion for the next morning's breakfast.

...in the time that it once took you to put your socks and shoes on and get out the door for work, you're now able to get dressed, feed the dog, cook and eat an omelette with mushrooms, cheese and bacon AND wash the dishes.

...you no longer have to pretend that the seat belt on your side of the car malfunctions.

...you pity the poor people who will have to eat all that crappy Easter chocolate and grab up all the hard boiled eggs for yourself instead.

...you overhear your significant other say, "Aww, not shrimp, steak and Ceasar salad again tonight"...

...you nearly crash your car on the way home from work because you're jotting down ideas to share on the lowcarb forum.

...you're able to produce the most incredible triple decker chocolate layer cake using only a half package of bbq pork rinds, a single packet of Splenda, a dash of soy sauce and 6 dozen eggs.

...the space on your dining room table that was once occupied by your bread basket is now home for your handy-dandy pill organizer that holds the 15 suppliments you gladly take each day.



Donald

You can get on an airliner and not have to ask the flight attendent to borrow the seat belt extender that they use for the safety demonstration. (I'm looking forward to that day with great anticipation).

Instead of telling someone that you can't have the offered cookie because you're on a diet, you launch into an explanation of the glucose/insulin response that your body would have it you ate it.

OMG..... (picking myself up off the floor) WAY TOO FUNNY!



Libby
(who has to pee every time the phone rings)

These are hysterical...and also true!! Laughing my socks off!!!
Last bbq my family had I brought tons of veggies...salad w all the trimmings. They were all full before the burgers...LOL. For a change not on chips either!!! Sugarbgood

when your family of 2 still makes enough dishes to run the dishwasher every night

when the local economy takes a hit because you have reduced your eating out so much

when the fruit bin in your fridge is now packed full of cheese

that was great!

You know you're a low-carber if:

1. You see someone drink a regular pepsi and in your head you're thinkin, "9 teaspoons of sugar, daaaaaayum" while your kidneys shudder.

2. You mention "whoosh" in a conversation to your friends and they give you a 'what the hell?' look.

3. You go to a buffet and go, "nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, yup!" in your head.

4. You nearly have an orgasm when you see a new low-carb product at the store.

5. You are at work but check this forum every 5 minutes or so!

you know you are a low carber if:

you pick out the shredded carrots in the coleslaw mix!

jes

I'm going to definitely have to agree with:

-Check the forums every hour or so while you should be working
- Used to be 1 Tequila, 2 Tequilas, 3 Tequilas, Floor; Now it's 1 Teq....BAM!
- Also the fat people thing. I'm still overweight, but when I see people that used to look like me, I'm thinking "OMG Gross. I have to tell them about how I changed my life" BUT I refrain, if they cared they would do something about it, just like I did.