Sugar crash!!!!

Make them work into your calorie allotment for the day.

Eat something and fit it into your calorie goal. If you set your goal at 2 pounds a week, drop it to 1 or perhaps .5/week if your profile picture is current so you will have more calories to work with if you can't fit some sort of snack in at your current calorie goal.

If you stop eating the ultra processed sugary treats, and keep your blood sugars level, and FUEL your body, after a few days there will be no crashes.

So, either eat the sugary snacks and count them, or wait it out.

I waited it out.

I was getting a sugar crash daily and was drinking coffee in the afternoon for a pick me up. It was because my blood sugar was so low by lunch- I'm not a big breakfast person so by the time I would eat lunch my blood sugar would spike and then crash. I can usually cure this now by eating a banana or some other high fructose fruit mid morning- around 9:30 am and this has helped me tremendously.

lucybarry2 wrote: »

I can't have sugar... I'm doing a keto diet so come tomorrow afternoon if I stay strong... I'll almost definitely have a headache and tiredness which lasts for days until my body gets used to not having sugar!

So eat something else?

Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »

lucybarry2 wrote: »

I can't have sugar... I'm doing a keto diet so come tomorrow afternoon if I stay strong... I'll almost definitely have a headache and tiredness which lasts for days until my body gets used to not having sugar!

You're gonna need to have a paradigm shift. If you're sitting around thinking of your diet as what you "can't have" you're going to make yourself crazy.

I agree with this. One reason why diets like keto and paleo work for many is that they reframe the change into a positive one -- you get to focus on eating in a new way rather than just not eating certain things.

I also agree with Sabine's prior point -- if you've been eating lots of highly processed carbs and other foods that make you feel an up and down in energy and a crash mid afternoon, you have to wait it out. Focusing on eating enough food and things like protein and sources of fat like nuts (I'd say greek yogurt also, and fruit, but that will be hard on keto) can help you have a more consistent energy level.

Maybe have a snack like nuts when others have what they have if it's a psychological thing of wanting to eat at that time of day because you feel left out. Just arrange the calories so you can.