Cricket Chips–Trying Cricket Protein in Chips video

I’m eating chips with CRICKETS in them. Cricket protein powder is going to be the cool new thing – so um, here’s your head’s up to check it out and impress your friends. I unfortunately, don’t have friends… but I have you. And I’m trying to impress you by eating cricket chips so you have the full run down before you spend your money on them. Plus there are a lot of benefits to eating bug protein over beef protein. So it’s good for the environment. Boom.

Q: Would you eat crickets or cricket protein powder??

I spotted these Chirps Chips at Ralph’s – that’s just my local grocery store. They weren’t in a fancy bug section of the store either – just with the other chips.

The company is Chirps Chips – but there are a lot of new companies coming out with cricket protein powder and other bug protein snacks and foods soon.

 

 

The bag said one serving had the same amount of protein as one egg white.

They also have pea protein in them so that increases the protein factor too. Other than that the other nutrition stats seem to be similar to other chips –

A serving of Chirps Chips = 140 calories and 7g of fat.

A serving of Doritos = 150 calories and 8g of fat.

I put the 2 types of chips side by side here to compare.

They are fairly similar on some of the stats I look at first – calories, fat, fiber and protein. But the ingredients lists are very different. And it’s not just a numbers game when we’re thinking about health and the overall health benefits of the foods we eat. So it’s good to look at what’s in your food too.

 

 

These have 1 cricket per chip! So I probably had like 88 crickets!! (I ate most of the bag in the first sitting – they are good!)

 

Here’s the video where I try them for the first time:

 

I bought these at the grocery store but they’re also available on Amazon – Chirps Chips Variety Pack

And they have cookie mix with cricket protein and cricket protein powder.

I definitely want to try more from them because I’m so curious and if it also is better for the environment for us to transition to cricket or other bug protein… I’m okay with eating it in cookies and chips for sure!

 

Let me know if you want me to try any new type of donut or other fun food for the next video…

Q: Would you eat crickets or cricket protein powder??

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[Progress + Milestone] Don't think you can because I know you can.

When I started this journey I had it engraved in my mind that I couldn't do anything I wanted to do because of my weight. I struggled to make it up a small flight of stairs. At 280 lbs and just having a baby I had given up on myself completely. Depression weighed me down daily and I struggled to get out of bed and be a productive member of my household. I easily got sick, struggled to lift anything and just felt like a giant sack of potato's. I started my journey by eating less. The weight came off fairly quickly. In fact about 40 lbs dropped in the first few months. Then came walking anywhere between 2 km to 5 km Monday to Friday combined with eating less and another 40 dropped in a couple of months. This is where things slowed down. I started becoming very self conscious about my loose skin and didn't want to continue if this is how my body was going to look. I often compared myself to a saggy dish rag and it caused me to spiral into a deeper depression. I hovered at 200-210 for some time. Then something clicked and I decided to go on antidepressant and just told myself to suck it up. I started going to the gym 3 days a week following stronglifts. This allowed me to get down to 170 lbs. I was strong and feeling great but stronglifts was boring me so I went on over to bodyweighfitness and started their recommended routine in combination with a modified version of stronglifts.

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My achievement

• Push ups: Knees on ground 3 x 3 now diamond push ups 3 x 8
• Squats: Bar 5 x 5 now 265 lbs 5 x 5
• Plank: 10 seconds now 3 x 1:00 min
• Side Plank: 5 seconds now 45 seconds
• Hollow Hold: 10 seconds now 1:00 min
• Pull ups: none (assisted at 140 lbs 3?) now 3 x 5 at 40 lbs assisted
• Chin ups: none (assisted at 100 lbs about 3) now 3 x 4
• Dips: none (assisted at 100 5) now 3 x 5 40 lbs assisted (can do 3 without assisted weight)
• Superman: 2 seconds now 1 minute
• handstand: NA now belly to wall 1 minute

I also run 5 km three days a week. I am very proud of this. I'm now 159 lbs and finally am noticing some abs trying to peak their way through!

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Pictures if anyone is interested. Weight Loss Photo 2016 Versus 2018

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Lost 88 pounds in 1.5 years, looking forward to shedding another 55

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The pictures were taken at a 6 months interval: starting weight 140 kg (308 lbs), current weight 100 kg (220 lbs).

About 2 years ago I got diagnosed with severe anxiety and clinical depression. I was hospitalized, put on pills for about 5 months; the aforementioned symptoms went away, instead feeling numb and too detached.

In the meantime, I was working out quite hard, eating once a day and truly staying on track. Nothing happened. I was getting stronger, but no fat/weight loss.

Be it a hand from above or a chance from destiny, I went to the local endocrinologist and reported my symptoms and my medical history. The nail in that coffin was my body temperature not rising above 35.5 degrees Celsius no matter what I did (took the temperature for about a week).

The checked hormones were LH, T4, T3, RT3, testosterone, prolactin, cortisol : testosterone = 60 years old man, RT3, T4, prolactin were above clinical levels, cortisol and prolaction were high, but below the highest range admissible.

Long story short, I got the standard medicine - T4 and also T3 by my own; the motivation being the documented procedures in the US, mainly Wilson's Protocol.

Ever since, my efforts vis-a-vis weight loss were not in vain, my anxiety and depression vanished (I discontinued my psychiatric medication). Even more, I got progressively better - mental clarity, a working memory, a functional body (far better sex life, we'll leave it at that) and as the fat came off, increased confidence and motivation to carry on.

Striving for 75 kg, more or less. I wish to get rid of the flabbiness all around, so weight is less significant than body fat.

Due to my present condition, the only weight loss regiment that works is 36/12 fast, every single day. On 'feeding' days, I avoid certain high glycemic foods - bread, pasta, sugar, focusing on dietary fat, protein, fibers and plenty of water. I may have a diet soda if carbonated water doesn't cut the craving.

Exercise is usually light - intensity: I walk to university, around town ~ 8 km daily and the occasional push-ups, planks and the likes.

What do you people think? Critiques and helpful advices are more than welcome.

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Hit a healthy BMI for the first time in 7 years this morning - and binged as automatic response.

I am a long, long time lurker here. I know many of you well but you do not know me. I am a quiet veteran of weight loss and disordered eating - I may know this pattern and journey better than anything else in my life and have never spoken of it with anyone. So I'll share it here, with the hopes perhaps someone out there who can relate will read it and feel slightly less alone.

I've had issues with eating since I was a little girl and never liked how I looked. I distinctly remember rejecting invitations to swim parties and beach days as young as 7. By 14 I was on a constant restriction cycle fluctuating from eating normally to throwing lunch in the trash on the way to school and spitting dinner into a napkin. I got relatively thin, but never *really* thin - never looking how I wanted to. I was 5'8 by then (as I still am now), and bottomed out at around 140. I tried my hand at purging but was never much good at it. I ate dry tuna at school and left bread crumbs on a plate in the sink around breakfast for my mother to find.

At 15 I started to binge - most likely as a reaction to the endless hunger - but evened things out with restricting and starving every other week. For a couple of years I hovered pretty consistently around 155. On my 16th birthday I spent my gift money on a cross trainer and built it in my room in silence. At 17, during my first year of sixth form, I lived off coffee and my schooling suffered miserably for the first half of the year. I fainted walking out of class on multiple occasions. The second half of the year I fell into an endless binge and jumped up to the high 160's, putting me at an overweight BMI for the first time. I wore leggings to school and often cried in the bathroom. I stopped speaking to everyone I knew. I was humiliated and sunk into a depression.

I still left for university at 18, headed to a new city - and there, from the loneliness, stress, and building depression - jumped from the high 160's to 225 in a short eight months. I huffed glue in my room, smoked out the window, and spent every penny I had on food. I was now obese and suicidal. My skin broke out constantly. I would often binge to the point of being involuntarily sick. I couldn't concentrate on anything and developed crippling anxiety. I seldom made it to class.

Things remained mostly the same until I was 20 - at which point I went through a full on nervous breakdown and was in and out of the hospital, never admitting my disordered eating to any professionals or otherwise. I went vegan - from a sincere desire of love for animals, with less of a focus on my body - and lost weight rapidly, in a healthy way for the first time. At 21, I hit the 180s. Still overweight - but people told me I looked great all the time. I was still relatively miserable but was functioning again.

There I hovered in the 180s for the past couple of years post-graduation. At 23 I moved to a new city - just earlier this year - and started a new job, headed back to school, learned to drive, met a lovely boy, made a whole new group of friends I sincerely love, and have been so busy that, without any consious effort, have lost some weight.

This morning I stepped on the scale and read 163. At 5'8, 164 is the boundary for an overweight BMI. I stood naked in the mirror for a long time and felt nothing but hate. Hate for the 62 pounds I've lost and hate for the 34 I still want to get rid of. I left the house and for the first time since January felt an intense need to go home and binge. I left my friends, skipped class, and cancelled on a friend for drinks tonight - to come home with the full knowledge of what I was going to do. It was as awful as I remember - the pain and the sickness and the disgust. And, of course, I don't feel any better. I'm still me. I will wake up tomorrow still me. I will turn 24 next week.

You have to work on how you feel about yourself, not just the weight loss. I have come a long way but seeing that 163 this morning and my involuntary reaction to it reminded me there's still a lot left buried under the surface. Be kind to yourself. You're in it for the long haul, not just that one special day when you hit a number you've anticipated for a long, long time. I'm not overweight anymore, but it's really only the beginning.

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TSA Made Me Do It

Today I happily walked to everyone's least favorite place in the entire world, the DMV. I hold a job where I have to travel frequently and end up in the airport more than I care to admit. On my last trip, the TSA officer at both airports had comments on how I no longer look like the person in my drivers license. This wasn't the first time but to have it happen twice on the same trip was telling, it was time to go. As I was walking, I thought about the journey that brought me to today, and I wanted to share.

This whole adventure started on January 1st, and I have periodically posted in here but mostly read everyone else's comments and stories for inspiration. My face gains are the most telling feature of my weight loss, but there is so much more to life now I am able to do.

I began by simply sticking to a regimen, eating the exact amounts of calories I was allowed and taking walks in the morning to get some additional calorie burn. I ate the same exact thing for lunch for about 4 months because I could track the calories easily and it left me with flexibility for dinner. Slowly I increased the intensity of my workouts, I remember the first day I jogged for a full minute straight and could have cried from the excitement.

Now, I find myself almost normal in a "cutting phase". I wear a large/XL t-shirt and when I look around I feel my body is almost in line with everyone else. I regularly run for at least 30 minutes about 6 times a week and have just added weight lifting for another half hour to my regimen in order to maybe tone some of the loose skin. Taking protein shakes as meal supplements along with fresh vegetables has done wonders for my body shape in a short amount of time.

I've found myself addicted to exercise, as you can see above. Its MY part of the day, I always scoffed whenever I read someone say that because it never made sense. I always thought I had plenty of time to myself, but when I am exercising it's really just me and my entire body working, I can think about making myself better or work out any aggressions or conflicts I have, helps clear my day of stress, in my opinion.

The first few months were wild, I lost an incredible amount of weight in these 10 months but most of it was front loaded. The first 100 flew off to be honest, it's been a slow grind since then. But I am here to say that you can all do this, the science works, CICO works, taking care of yourself is what you owe to yourself.

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See you in the gym!

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Lost 45KG and gained it all back. I'm at the end of my rope and trying to find some hope.

First off, this isn't a throwaway account but it is one I made specifically for this post. Perhaps I'll continue using it if I become an active member of the community. Also, I honestly don't even know where this post belongs because it comes off as a rant but I decided to post it here because ultimately my unhappiness comes down to one major factor. My weight and self image.

Warning, long post ahead.

So some backstory. I'm a 22 year old guy that's been fat as far back as I can remember. From 6 years old onward, I was already considered fat. At 13 I weighed 115KG. At 16 I ballooned up to 130KG. I honestly can't remember a time I wasn't considered fat or at the very least chubby. I had extremely unhealthy eating habits not to mention a VERY sedentary lifestyle. I'd probably drink 2-3 glasses of soda with each meal, a single helping of food was an alien concept to me but worst of all I basically just sat playing videogames,watching movies and tv shows, anime etc, the entire day.

Being overweight seriously (and even though I haven't really browsed this sub thoroughly yet, I know many of you probably feel the same) messed up my self esteem and image. I experienced a lot of self hate, was repulsed to look at myself in the mirror but above all, I almost always felt people were kinda repulsed by me. "This guy must be thinking I'm the fattest person he's ever seen". "She probably thinks I look disgusting". Things like that. I experience this to this day and I honestly don't know how to deal with it.

From 6 years old I already knew I had to lose weight. Throughout the years I tried to. I remember at 8, I naively thought doing 20 pushups a day would help me lose weight and build big muscles. At age 13 I tried going on a 2 minute noodle diet ( yeah...I actually did that) but nothing ever seemed to stick. Until something happened during 2014 when I was 18. See when I was in high school, I was pretty good in physics. So I decided to start a study group and all of them were girls. These were girls I knew since grade 10 but I never knew them really on a personal level until we got to know each other via this study group. Now I know what you guys are thinking and surprise surprise it's got to do with a girl. I started to develop feelings for one of the girls in the group. I always saw her as a friend but once I got to know her really, I fell hard for her. Eventually I mustered up the courage to tell her how I feel and she rejected me. Needless to say, I didn't take it well. I understood that she didn't reciprocate ( we can't force people to like us romantically hey) and I decided that I need some space from her to think about everything. She was okay with it and there was never any bad blood between us or anything. But insideI felt devastated. In hindsight, I realize I shouldn't have taken this so personally but this was the first girl that I confessed my feelings to not to mention my encounter with rejection.

But something happened as a result of this rejection. All of a sudden, I experienced this ridiculous drive to lose weight. I had been trying on and off that year to lose weight but after being rejected, I felt that nothing could stop me. Now that I think back, I probably internalized her rejection as her not being attracted to me because of my weight (which was probably true but I can't blame her for having preferences) so in my mind, I thought if I lose this weight, perhaps she will give me a chance? I know people say don't lose weight for a girl or a guy but in a way, even though the reason was bad, the results were definitely worth it. I proceeded to lose 45KG by 2016. After the first few months, my reasons for losing weight wasn't even because of rejection anymore. I started to develop my own motivation. I enjoyed lifting weights. I enjoyed doing cardio. I enjoyed feeling more physically fit. I was losing weight for ME and me ALONE. I still kind of lost it on and off near the end but eventually it came down. As for the girl, I got over her and I guess we kinda just drifted apart. Haven't spoken to her in years.

I hit 90KG on the 1st of May 2016. Needless to say, I felt amazing. This was my initial goal weight. I was still a big guy but I didn't feel "fat". I just felt like a husky guy. Eventually though, I got tired with being a husky guy. I wanted to be an in shape, fit guy so I made a new goal weight of 75KG. Funny enough, throughout my entire weight loss journey from 135KG to 90KG, I never counted a single calorie. I just used intuition. No liquid cals, no empty cals, no deep fried foods etc coupled with a solid lifting and cardio regime. My self esteem took hits in other ways though regardless of how good I was feeling about the weight loss. I started balding badly and by the time I hit 90KG, I already had a big bald patch in the back of my head. This was at age 20 so yeah it messed me up pretty badly. One of the things people always complimented me even with all that weight, was my hair. So it was pretty devastating to lose that. I've (finally) accepted it though. I also developed a health condition known as rectal prolapse(this is anonymous so I don't mind speaking about it) that basically caused me to stop lifting weights. This depressed me greatly because I loved lifting weights. I love lifting heavy weights and had even considered going into powerlifting. I also couldn't do any high impact cardio anymore. This was around 96KG mark when I had 6 left to go. I basically lost that final 6KG from simply brisk walking. Eventually the prolapse went away though ( it was a minor prolapse) but it's still risky for me to lift anything heavy and I have to eat an extremely fibrous diet and I still feel physically terrible at times but I've learnt to tolerate it.

Anyway, I made a new goal for myself. 75KG. The goal that caused me to almost lose my sanity. See, I just couldn't get under 90KG. Sure, I know now that I should have simply calculated my calories and develop a solid meal plan but at the time I wasn't even counting calories. I was stuck at 90KG for MONTHS. Five months to be exact. I was extremely frustrated. I started to diet hard and did lots of cardio but I couldn't keep this up and would eventually go on short spurts of binge eating. This became a cycle until one day I just thought screw this, I'm going to eat whatever I want, how much I want for a week. And I binged. I binged on anything food. Eventually this week binge became a month. The month became two months. The two months became a year and 2 years later, here I am, back to square one, having gained all this weight back. Yes, I developed an extremely bad binge eating disorder. I just couldn't stop eating. This was worse than the lifestyle I had initially before I started to lose weight. This was out of control. It didn't even matter what food I ate so long as I could binge on anything I could see. It was also during this time that I developed another condition called tinnitus (it's a condition where you hear ringing in your ears). I used to get a LOT of anxiety from the ringing at first and as a result, I binged to cope with this as well.I eventually gained all the weight back.

I'm at that point now where I feel as if I can't come back from this but at the same time, I don't wanna give up on myself just yet. I started reading the book Brain Over Binge by Kathryn Hansen and while the principles seem a bit pseudosciency, it's actually been really helpful. I can relate to the "animal side" of the brain. I seriously feel as if I have no control during binges so I see where she's coming from. I haven't finished it yet but I'm trying to apply the principles already and I have been seeing at least some degree of success. I gained all the way back to 135KG but I'm now 129.5KG so I'm trying to get down to 90 again at least. But damn, it's just so mentally draining having to lose so much weight AGAIN not to mention I still want to get to that sweet spot of 75KG. Honestly, I'm wondering why I even made this post. Perhaps I just wanted to finally get all these things off my chest or perhaps I just wanted receive some assurance. I know I went off topic mentioning things not related to my weight loss and I apologize for that. I just sometimes feel like broken goods. All these health problems, the weight gain, the binge eating, my self image etc. I just need someone to tell me everything's going to be okay and that I can come back from this.

TL;DR lost weight, got stuck trying to lose more, got frustrated and decided to binge;the binge became a habit and i developed a full on binge eating disorder; gained all the weight back;trying to lose it again

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I need help overcoming binge-eating addiction. This is my story.

This will be a long one, so you can jump to the end for a bolded TL;DR with the questions neatly formatted.

That said, let's dive into the brunt of the issue: I'm a binge-eating addict. I'm a food addict. I do not know how to take control of these facets of who I am.

I say addict for a number of reasons. The first being that my brain does not let go of the idea of eating, even when I'm objectively not hungry. My brain wants the next chemical high from eating; and as I finish one meal, I'm planning the next. "What do I get to eat later!?". It's like christmas morning to my brain; the excitement and anticipation.. it's like an impossibly positive association that is nearly unshakable.

Another thing is, people would often say "Well, have a cheat day!" - The thing is, if I had a cheat day, that was it for me. Cheating means binge eating. Binge eating means throwing red meat to the invasive thoughts. If I do it so much as once, it results in a horrific backslide. I cheat, and binge, my brain is immediately calculating once that binge ends when it will get to do that again.

There's another aspect that makes it addiction to be touched on later, for now, the last way I know it's addiction is because I absolutely go through withdraw, and during that time I OBSESS over eating; and it's not just 'an item', it's 'A lot of x item'. If I want tacos, and I'm in a binge-withdrawl, I don't want 1-3 tacos, no, I want 12 tacos. And a burrito. With extra guac and sour cream. I can't cheat my brain with "one taco", because that's not what my brain wants. I can't cheat my brain with "a tiny bowl of alfredo" because my brain wants a heaping plate with extra cheese.

Food is often a reward for me as well. A comfort. Having a tough day? Get through that tough day, lets get pizza! Have a big success? Sushi feast! Often, I cannot even keep the motivation to attempt to control it; the beast, so to speak, runs wild.

In my life, I've tried and had differing success with a variety of diets. I did Keto back when it was still called 'Atkins' - I lost a ton of weight! 40 pounds in two months. Aaaaand, I proceeded to put it all back on, because meals of 6 burger patties, and other similarly huge portions of meat don't train you well to maintain when you end ketosis. I found Keto easy, because I was never big on carbs or sugars. I love savory foods like meats, cheeses, and so forth. But it didn't address the core fundamental issues with my dietary habits.

The most holistically successful diet I was on (that is to say, not in pounds lost, but in healthy choices) was a restrictive CICO with what basically constituted a small menu of available food items, which I wouldn't eat outside of. I lost around 40 pounds on that diet, and I noticed two very interesting things:

First, I could resist ANY temptation. Food held no sway over me, and had no grip on my mind. This is the second point as to why I KNOW it's addiction: With the addiction withdraw overcame, the invasive thoughts and incessant demands by my brain to go eat that yummy food were just gone. I could take an offer of a single french fry, and not suddenly desire an extra large fry with a burger.

Second, and the most disturbing: I did not look on my former habits with scorn. I looked back on them with envy. Yes, I was thinner, yes, I was healthier, I was cuter (if people's reactions to me were anything to go off of) but I still looked back on those taco binges as happy times. Happy times I would no longer have.

This cemented it as addiction to me. This was not unlike what I'd heard ex-smokers say when they thought about smoking.

And of course, me posting here, this is my history, after all. I slipped up and binge ate. The invasive thoughts were back, sated only by binge eating, and I put on twice the weight i lost.

I'm 30 years old now. I had hoped against hope that by now I'd be down to a healthy weight, but it has been a struggle my whole life. I'm hoping some of this resonated with you guys, and maybe, just maybe, with some tips, advice, and support, I can overcome this once and for all.

TL;DR: I am a binge eating addict full stop. Food is often a reward for me. I cannot shake the positive memories associated with binging, even when no longer addicted. I need help.

That all said, I guess my questions would be as follows:

1. What do you do to treat yourself, besides food? The chemical dopamine hit is so easy and so instant, I have not been able to find a replacement. I've tried picking out a nice piece of clothes, but my body type is weird, so often instead of feeling like a reward, it feels like a chore. Additionally, I don't want for much as it is, so there's little that I want that I haven't already got.

2. How do you cope with the invasive thoughts demanding food, even when not hungry? I still don't know how I did it before, when I broke the spell so to speak. It's a constant test of willpower, and I don't always have the sheer force of will to resist all the time. And it's constant.

3. How do I come to terms with the fact that even when I'm free of those invasive thoughts, my mind has a positive association with the binge eating episodes? It's not hard to see why, binge eat -> dopamine hit -> feels good -> good memories associated with it. I feel like conquering this once and for all will require confronting this fact directly.

4. How do I keep motivation going long enough to break through? It feels like my willpower is a finite meter that drains over time, and with it my motivation to continue on. I'm very interested in making this work... now. In a week? Two weeks? The invasive thoughts will become defining in their demands for a binge eating episode. They will latch on to something bad for me, and make me desire above all else a gigantic calorie dense meal. I know this battle is coming, be it two days or two weeks, it's coming. How do I prepare?

5. If, after reading all of this, you have any general advice - please, I'm all ears! I've tried everything I can think of, I know the mechanics of weight loss, I know the mechanics behind being satiated, I know the ideas of small meals across a longer time... my biggest issues are overcoming the psychological and addictive aspects of the problem.

If you made it this far, thank you. I know this is going to be tough, but I'm hoping, with a little help from you guys, I can make this diet the last one I need.

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