Karlottap wrote: »

@bremm2015, making it through the first few weeks can be a tough time where many fail. The carb cravings/addiction is really deep in some people. Making the choice to resist is yours alone. But I can tell you that every time you do make the best choice it builds strength. That strength builds, making temptation nonexistent once you've made the choice enough. It does get easier, and making that choice at first will take you very far with this woe. Best of luck to you!

I agree with this @tattoomary . I tried to taper off of sugar and grains for two months and failed.

With my health crashing quickly and looking at starting Enbrel injections for pain management then in only 30 days I made breaking my carb cravings/addiction as if it was a live or die decision because our two 16 year old kids were watching me sink. That was the first of Oct 2014.

It was a hellish two weeks in my case but then the cravings quickly faded. At the end of the first 30 days after stopping sugar and all grains my long term pain levels of 7-8 had dropped to levels of 2-3 and still is low as long as I keep my total carbs <50 grams daily and they do not some from sugar and grains.

Where this would work for another I can not say. It have me my life back and my kids have hope that my life is not their future life.

I had to see myself in my coffin due to my Way Of Eating in my case to stop endlessly eating carbs. What I thought I needed to live and be happy was leading to my premature death I now understand.

Again I can not tell another what to do when it comes to carb cravings/addiction. Try to find a way that will work for you and do it. I did this living in a house swimming in carbs so that can not be one's excuse. In my case my will to live finally won out. To this day I do not really remember many details those two weeks. All I know I did not eat any food containing sugar and or grain. One day I do remember Googling 'dying from coconut oil' and learned about the Herxheimer Reaction.

I did not know about LCHF WOE until later but I was consuming large amounts of coconut oil. In hindsight I think Candida overgrowth may have been a factor in my cravings. Even eating LCHF Candida can still be a struggle in my case.

Now I take a homeopathic liquid daily called Aqua Flora High Potency 9 Multi-Strain Candida Formula that I started Oct 2016. Now my throat is clear when I wake up in the mornings so no hacking up clear thick build up every morning.

We all can be very different so just keep looking and reading. Carbs are needed by different harmful things that can hurt our health. In my case I am certain had I not cut out most carbs I had no chance to stop my downward spiral then reverse it over the past two years.

My health is better at 65 (turning 66 next month) than it was at 45 and my lab work supports this improvement on my LCHF WOE.

No it is not easy but few good things comes without an upfront cost. Best of success to all.