I’ve been on a low carb diet for two years now. I ran across a pretty fantastic post by Sohee Lee and I decided to blatantly rip her off to make the first post of my newly redesigned blog a memorable one. So without further ado, I present the 52 signs you’re a low carber.

All images shameless ripped from /r/reactiongifs! Captions are my own.

When someone offers you fast food:

When your spouse playfully tries to throw a piece of popcorn in your mouth:

When your friends eat ice cream near you:

When your family reminisces about Thanksgiving dinner:

When someone tells you they can eat whatever they want:

When your Mom offers you biscuits for the 4th time:

When she offers them for the 40th time:

When an ex sees you for the first time in years:

When you first start your diet and you’re trying to throw away all of the junk food in your house:

When you tell your friends how many eggs you consume:

When you get into a diet argument with someone doing a juice fast:

When you open the fridge near the end of the week and see there’s still bacon left:

When someone sees you’ve lost a lot of weight and asks you what your secret is:

When your friends and relatives try to get you to cheat:

When the waiter drops bread off at your table and leaves immediately after:

When someone comments on how much better you look now compared to how you used to look:

When you pretend to write down the name of the Amazing Miracle Diet of the Day book that someone’s mother in-law saw on the Dr. Oz:

When you go to Cracker Barrel with your spouse and unexpectedly discover an entire page of low carb options on the menu:

When you step on the scale after a perfect week of eating and gain a pound:

When your parents get murdered and you have to learn martial arts and invent shark repellent so that you can spend the rest of your life fighting crime as a coping mechanism that ultimately proves to be futile no matter how many thugs you put behind bars and also, you ate a candy bar:

When your Mom tells you you’re getting too skinny while you still weigh 300 pounds:

When someone puts a tray of cookies in your vicinity:

When you witness someone alternating between dipping a corndog and pizza rolls in ranch dressing:

When you’re trying to decide whether or not eating something that you really want to eat is a terrible decision:

When you’re looking at a table full of things you used to love that you can’t have anymore:

How your friends and family should react if you contract and die from a horrible disease:

How your friends and family will react if you contract and die from a horrible disease while you also happen to be on a low carb diet:

When a relative loudly announces how much weight you’ve lost in a crowded room and then requests that everyone marvel at your willpower:

IF this is how you have to imagine junk food when you pick it up to keep yourself from eating it:

When a hater claims there’s no science supporting the health benefits of your diet:

When you’re walking through the candy aisle in the supermarket:

When your co-worker tells you the low carb brownies you devoured that she made specially for your birthday had Nutella in them:

When you lose weight even though you cheated multiple times:

When you gain 15 pounds of water weight in a week because you thought you could still lose weight while cheating multiple times:

When you’re listening to friends having a serious discussion about which non-diet soda is healthier:

When you see girlscouts coming from your neighbors house:

When your BMI is downgraded from obese to overweight:

When your co-workers go out for lunch:

When you have but one remaining use for a spaghetti strainer:

When you hear there’s something called a Cabbage Soup Diet and people think it’s a good idea:

When a regular clothing store has something in your size:

When you walk through the supermarket and get accosted by workers at multiple bakery sampling stations:

When someone in your house is cooking pizza or brownies:

When a vegan calls you a part of the problem:

When you’ve got a weight loss buddy and you hit a plateau:

When you forget to put your glasses on before stepping on the scale:

When you look in the mirror after you’ve lost 15 pounds:

When you go shopping for groceries while you’re starving:

When you have sugar for the first time in months:

When your friends see you take the bun off a hamburger for the first time:

When the restaurant slips a free piece of candy in at the bottom of the bag:

When you fall off the wagon and the only thing you had around to binge on were your fiber-rich protein bars: