If you weren’t getting your electrolytes you will have no energy with Keto! It won’t be sustainable! You must read the information at the top of the group page about that and figure out a way to get sodium and magnesium everyday when you drop the carbohydrates! Otherwise you won’t have any energy, you’ll have headaches and bad leg cramps!

Also, if you don’t increase your fat, ie: using heavy whipping cream (hwc) in coffee, or putting it in eggs (scrambled or omelettes) to make them creamy and yummy, or make homemade hollandaise sauce with hwc and butter to compliment meat and veggies, you will always be hungry. Increasing your fat intake (which is not bad for you, another thing you must read about all over the information up there ^^^ too!!) is what makes you able to look at those old foods, you used to be addicted to, and see them as non foods anymore!

But you have to do the reading, so you feel sure about it, and figure it out for yourself which level is going to work for you. Use the ketocalculator in that information to calculate your macros. Because no one can tell you exactly what you need to do for you other than the fact that starvation isn’t good for anyone, and low fat is not the answer! If it were that would have worked the five thousand times I tried it years ago!! I can promise you that if you give yourself 90 days of doing a strict low carb high fat/Keto way of eating that your whole outlook on food would be changed!!

Hugs to you hun!! We are all making it through this struggle and getting past it! Otherwise we wouldn’t be here trying to help each other do the same!! We know you can too!!

It took a hellish two weeks of eating under 50 grams of carbs daily before my cravings/binges started to become less. One month in things were much better but it took awhile for the mental cravings to fade. 4.5 years later I still have cravings when I get hungry but the cravings are for protein and for some reason I have never been able to binge eat protein or fats.

Now carbs is a different story because I can literally bust a gut.

I do low carb and lost 30 lbs July - Nov. , feel so much better but I also looked at the emotional side of this. What feeling am I trying not to feel and if I eat and am sad, I can be sad or sad and fat. I did some journaling and that helped. I also listened to some stuff on internet on sabotaging myself and hypnosis, it was interesting.