Sugar Free/Keto/Atkins help please- so frustrated and upset!

TeaBea

Cloudfish wrote: »

I feel like I am caught in a nightmare! I really thought cutting carbs and sugar would help but over the last two weeks I lost more weight when I was eating sugar than when I quit.

I have 5 stone to lose, so according to everything I have read I should be losing fast. It's also been 8 days so not just a few. Feel like curling into a ball and giving up at this point.

Low carb is great for dropping water weight. If you also lowered calories then you lost fat as well.

The converse is also true. If you started eating carbs again (after several low carb days) the water weight came back. If you also increased calories then you may have gained fat back.

REAL weight loss is about calories. You can eat food you love (in moderate portions) and lose weight.

CattOfTheGarage

Cloudfish wrote: »

crzycatlady1 wrote: »

How do you think following a very restrictive woe (keto/low carb cuts out a lot of foods and has strict rules), is going to play into your obsessive issues with food? It seems like it's only going to feed the problems you struggle with and just make it worse?

Have you worked with someone who specializes in EDs?

I think my hope is just that once I get sugar out of my system and stop craving it then I can re-introduce healthy sugars like brown rice/pasta/fruit without causing cravings for entire bags of haribo.

Rice and pasta are not sugar.

I understand that sugar can make you want to eat more, and I also understand that, for some people, an excess of refined starchy things can have a similar effect - but you have jumped from that to "I will not eat any carbs at all" on the assumption that will make your cravings go away. It's incredibly extreme and seems unnecessary.

For me, not only do whole grains not have that moreish/cravey tendency, but they have the opposite effect, and so do some non-wholegrain carbs, like white potatoes and white pasta. They make me less likely to want to snack, not more, and for me, eating protein without carbs makes me hollow and hungry very quickly.

The point I am making is that these things are individual, and whatever people may write in order to sell dodgy diet books, there is no need to go to extremes. Depending on the person it may actually be counterproductive.

Do you have experience which suggests that all starchy carbs worsen cravings for you (not a bunch of invented anecdotal people in a book)? If not, why not try reintroducing some of them now, and find out what effect they have. You may find they hinder - or you may find they help!

This is a journey of self knowledge. It is not a contest to see who can follow the most restrictive diet based on injunctions by self-proclaimed "nutritional experts" (usually nothing of the sort). You need to find out what works for you.

ronjsteele1

I would really recommend the book The Beck Diet Solution as a possible method/way for you to learn how to have a better thought pattern/attitude towards food/weight. It may help you a lot along the way of trying to eat some things in more moderation then cutting them completely out. I am finding both the workbook and reading book very helpful.

Heather4448

So here's my wt loss graph:


You can't expect a smooth, linear wt loss. Our bodies are far too complicated for that.

floweringcurrant

Im also a sugar sensitive person. What helps me is:
1) Not getting caught up in extremism. I still eat brown rice. I still eat whole wheat bread if I want to. I still eat corn tortillas. I still eat fruit. I just don't eat processed sugar.
2) I keep sugar completely out of my house. Like, I literally don't have any snack food in my house. Just healthy food/food that takes time and energy to prepare and then fruit and string cheese and stuff like that.
3) Be nice to yourself. Stop fighting yourself. Your sugar sensitivity is okay, you're not wrong, it's just how your body relates to that substance. Recognize your cravings without needing to act or react or punish yourself or restrict yourself like crazy.
4) I still eat stevia and stuff in small amounts.

Yeah, for me, if I restrict like crazy, I binge. So I don't do it.