What makes you fall off the low carb wagon
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If I nap during the day I wake up craving carbs like a junky. My blood sugar is fine but I just crave them so I have to be careful.
Omg yes!!!! Anytime I take a nap or even if I fall asleep while putting the kids down I wake up wanting to binge on everything remotely sweet in the house!! I have to really pause for a moment and not give in to that craving!
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Also, attempting to have a small serving of starchy foods/sweets. It never works. I always spiral out of control.
The same is true for special occasions "ok, just today on my birthday I'll have cake/pasta/bread". That also leads to a week long binge. Ugh.
I really need to either work on that or simply not make exceptions anymore.
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Believing the lies I tell myself.0
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My biggest issue is beer! All my friends are beer drinkers. Beers get passed around at work every Friday afternoon. Last night I went to a brewery/bar that has this great food truck that serves delicious AND cheap wings every Wednesday night. I haven't been there since I changed to LCHF.
When I got to the bar, they didn't have any good options for me, no vodka lime + soda for example (which is my go-to drink now) - just beer galore, and ciders.
So then I'm the only one out of a large group of friends sitting at a table without a beer in front of them, and every time someone hopped up to grab a drink, they would offer to buy me a beer, asking why I wasn't drinking, etc... Someone made a joke that if I wasn't drinking, I must be pregnant
Didn't succumb to peer pressure though, enjoyed the hell out of my chicken, and my partner made me a vodka and soda when I got home
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For me, it starts with stress and / or not feeling up to par. A lack of energy causes me to want carbs or to overeat. Being sick or stressed does it.
For me, it has been stumbles rather than falls. I'll eat more, or have some carb creep, but I haven't walked away and given up. I might struggle with evening snacking but my weght is the same or just a slower loss.
I'm trying to think of this diet as medically necessary, like a gluten-free diet is for me, and nut free is for my son. I can't fall off the wagon. The fall would be too hard.0 -
For those who don't fall off the wagon what keeps you on board?
I don't ever fall off the wagon because I cannot. Before I found keto, I had been experiencing neuropathy in my feet for 8-9 months. For me it presented as a combination of extreme burning pain (imagine someone roasting your feet over an open flame and this probably begins to come close to approximating how painful this is to experience), numbness and tingling (pins and needles) sometimes all at the same time. Keto has allowed me to control my blood sugar 100% without medication of any kind so much so that I rarely experience neuropathy anymore. It is extremely rare that I consume over 20 grams of sugar per day and most days my ingested sugar grams are usually far lower than that; however, that said, I have discovered the hard way that if I have one entire meal which contains more than 8 - 10 GRAMS of sugar total, that is enough sugar to cause the neuropathy in my feet to flare up. They get what I call "buzzy." It's a form of built-in aversion therapy and it's also a great BS detector where the accuracy of the reported nutritional data displayed foods which are marketed as "low carb" but which in truth are not "low carb." I've found more than a few food brands which purposefully list completely false nutritional data so the built-in aversion therapy is both a blessing and curse. So, what keeps me on the wagon? Simple: the knowledge that about 5 minutes after eating off-plan I will experience extreme pain is enough to keep my mouth shut. Being able to say "NO" to that awful pain allow me to pass on everything that I might be tempted by. I never had this kind of will-power prior to the neuropathy. Perhaps I should call it my super power...?! lol
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Eating out and traveling. I failed today because we had to travel and go out to eat.
I was weak and caved to 3 cheese bread sticks and then some caramel corn at the pumpkin patch. After 2 solid weeks and a couple inches off my waist and losing 7 lbs. ahhh but tomorrow I'm back to the plan and am going to do some major cardio before work to burn out the glycogen stores faster. Live and learn I guess. For me this is a way of life, not a diet, so I am trying not to be too hard on myself 0 -
Chocolate - I let myself have 1 square of 74% dark a few times a week, but I binged once and had 4 squares. My mistake was to start eating with the package still open in front of me.
A few days ago, my worst error in the two months I've been on Keto. I found a bag of real chocolate my kids left something, I was in a bad mod and ate one, then two, then more - at least ten of them.
Ice Cream - none in the house - or I'd be beyond recovery.
Coffee yogurt - I was eating one a night but managed to stop eating them several weeks before Keto.0 -
If I get hungry I just eat fat. One go to is drinking a cup of Heavy Whipping Cream. Other times is is almonds and coconut flakes. If I want dessert I just do all three at the same time. If I gave into carbs I would gain weight.0
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Friday after a long work week. I care just a little bit less than I did Monday morning. Whatever food is in front of me may just get eaten.
And hint of lime Tostitos. Hubby brought them home... err0 -
Also, for me: how gross, bloated, gassy, lethargic, and queasy I felt after my first carb binge after being on LCHF for a month, is a strong deterrent against making the same mistake again!0
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GaleHawkins wrote: »If I get hungry I just eat fat. One go to is drinking a cup of Heavy Whipping Cream. Other times is is almonds and coconut flakes. If I want dessert I just do all three at the same time. If I gave into carbs I would gain weight.
Great trick. The other I was hungry and there was not much I could have so I had a spoon of coconut oil. Drinking heavy cream sounds better!
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GaleHawkins wrote: »If I get hungry I just eat fat. One go to is drinking a cup of Heavy Whipping Cream. Other times is is almonds and coconut flakes. If I want dessert I just do all three at the same time. If I gave into carbs I would gain weight.
Great trick. The other I was hungry and there was not much I could have so I had a spoon of coconut oil. Drinking heavy cream sounds better!
Both work for me. The coconut oil has many other health pluses.0 -
I haven't fallen off the wagon and what I think has helped me is not trying to make desserts and sweets that do fit plan. I've had some on special occasions, Keto desserts, but only as an actual treat, which is a rare thing, not a regular one.
Even those Keto desserts seem to trigger the desire for more sweet tasting things. My brain goes "sugar? Is that you? I want more of that!"
It doesn't seem to care that it isn't actually sugar... Dumb brain!
I had the same issue with quest bars, which I will have occasionally, but I'll only eat 1/3 or 1/2 at most in a day. I can't increase the frequency. The cravings will come. And I can't do it daily for the same reason. I even have the cravings start if I get too heavy on the sugar free coffee syrup! Those old sugar binges die hard!
I really attribute my craving control for staying on the wagon.0 -
Stress and ready to eat food in front of my face. I was cutting back on lunch to allow carb room for dinner. I went to the kitchen to get a coffee and grabbed a vege hot dog, even though I was not hungry. 3 carbs lost to impulse. 3 is not a terrible thing, but it's annoying.0
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Stress, tight muscles and migraines. The carbs hit me like a drug and relax the tightness. But I've learned that the tight muscles are caused by inflammation and those carbs cause that inflammation. Vicious cycle.0
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I love lc and feel great on it. The same thing that makes me fall off any healthy eating plan affects me when lc too...... STRESS0
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Sweet Fat bombs are like crack to me. Can't have them any more. They are just a quick ride down the slippery, carb-creep slide for me. No more!0
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