Ok, so I may have licked an almond joy.
I promise you I did not enjoy it at all. I promptly put in back in the package and threw it away. I was mostly just curious about what sweets would taste like after being on keto for 3 months. It was too sweet, I wiped the chocolate off my tongue and I went on with me day. I’m sorry. I have forgiven myself.
Anyone else need to confess a tiny itty bitty slip?
I ate a single M&M, so that’s worse. I shouldn’t have, I know. I looked it up. 4 calories, 1g carb. Halloween candy. Not buying it, it just crosses my path in annoying ways.
I had one of those tiny Snickers squares–someone at work handed it to me and I unthinkingly popped it in my mouth. GROSS! Were they always that sickeningly sweet? Might be the first time in my life that I spit candy out.
Oh please. I binge carbs once in a while (once every week or 2 or 3) and go absolutely nuts for a couple of hours with chips, chocolate, KFC, what have you.
When I was properly in ketosis over the summer, obviously no bingeing, ever (on anything but ketogenic foods). But now, LCHF? No worries – and no guilt. I’ve learned: with a binge, or an unintended slip or lapse in judgment, the next morning – straight back to the program.
My weight stabilizes within a couple of days, and I’m quite certain my body is thankful for the weeks at a time I don’t stress it with that shit.
Of course, if I were T2D, I’d probably be way less blasé about it!
One night I ate a twix (both of them!) a snickers bar and one of those cereal bars that is like a rice crispy bar.
Another time, I ate three duck donuts (cake donuts that are fried and then dipped in chocolate/sweet topping) then I walked to 7-11 and ate a PB&J donut.
Another time I went to cracker barrel and ate three eggs/bacon/a steak/hashbrowns/toast/grits/pancakes with syrup…
If you are gonna “confess” confess to some real shit… 
Biff, I’m a bit hesitant, there, because I don’t see it as really a good thing. Many of us can relate some fairly horrendous indulgences, past or present. Better not to be thinking about them, all other things being equal.
However, what the hell… A few weeks ago I determined that I’d go to a local Mexican place that I was familiar with. As it turned out, they’d lost their liquor license, and got it back that very day. They had a new waitress who was not used to serving booze, and I ordered a pitcher of Margaritas. That’s what she gave me, a full pitcher, and this was all drink, no ice. Ice in my glass, to be sure, but wow that makes for a lot of booze in the pitcher.
So as I worked my way through the second one of those, I figured I better hurry up and eat, and get the heck out of there before I was truly annihilated… Felt pretty bad the next day.
You are splendid indeed. 
I am only 2 months into keto, I am sure there will be more really bad confessions ahead. I am only human after all
Only two pitchers? Not a binge, then.
I used to love margaritas, back in the days before I had to start going to meetings and saying, "Hi, my name is Paul . . . . "
I refuse to spend the rest of my life feeling deprived or feeling guilty over my food choices.
Since good health is essential to my happiness, I need to make healthy food choices most of the time, but not all the time.
I can have WHATever I want or I can have WHENever I want, but not both.
@4dml, I agree! I don’t consider a small bit of carbs a “cheat” or anything bad at all. Cheat is not a word in my vocabulary any more.
Sometimes when I’m out I have like 7 tortilla chips with salsa or guacamole. Yep, 7. I know that’s enough for me and the carbs count is low enough that it won’t throw me out of ketosis. So… yeah. I don’t mind eating guacamole with a spoon. but I also know a few tiny nibbles of something carby here or there seriously aren’t going to hurt me. I can literally eat a few kernels of popcorn now and stop there.
Nibbles were never my problem. More like the party-sized bag of popcorn every night, in addition to carbs all day. THAT was a problem!!
My sister made a pumpkin pie last night to celebrate her daughter’s birthday. I had a small piece, and it was lovely. I have to confess, though, that carb-creep is something I have to look out for; I’ve already been eating the occasional apple, and now I find myself looking at all the sugar-laden stuff in the house with a renewed sense of possibility. Not good!
I confess that I had a passing thought to eat a mini Twix last night, after being strict zero carb for almost 4 months. Made it out unscathed, but still guilty for the thought!
I understand.
I will say this:
I am NOT attacking the OP in ANY way BUT, if you think that licking a candy bar (and then throwing it away) is “worth confessing” then maybe your standards are “too high” AND could cause others to assume that even that one lick is a “failure” on this WOE. (I am 1 million percent sure that I’m not doing my argument justice in words and promise there is ZERO malice here).
We all have our foibles. We’ve all taken steps off the path we were on, be it this WOE, use of alcohol, the way we treat others etc. Humans are extremely fallible and we don’t even understand many of the things we do, why we do them or spend much time inspecting our own thoughts/actions/desires etc. My “addition” and “true confession” was in attempt to provide examples of “more serious transgressions” in order to “move the bar” a little, maybe allow others some wiggle room to realize that their slips may not be as “massive” as they think. I’m not justifying my actions or the transgressions of others, just saying that “hey, we’ve all made mistakes and DAMN, I’ve made some big ones!”
Why guilty?
There are SOOOO many variables that impact our desires/moods/thoughts/wants, who knows why you had the thought, maybe the weather, maybe you like a twix when watching baseball and the game was on… who knows?
My point being, there shouldn’t be guilt, 4dml makes a good point, we should refuse to feel guilt or shame, we should recognize that many of our mental processes are not even IN our control, to recognize a feeling, and make a conscious decision to ignore it, without guilt, that makes perfect sense to me. (BTW, good job ignoring the desire, I’ve been meaning to make a keto snickers bar, maybe I’ll make it today and post some pics. Have you searched for a keto twix recipe? I bet one exists…).
Thanks @infromsea. I apologize if the post went into a different direction. I did not mean to make anyone feel badly about slips. I was hoping people could laugh at them and not feel defeated by them.
The entire post was meant to be humorous to get us laughing at ourselves. Me licking an almond joy was HILARIOUS to me. I still giggle just thinking about it. I don’t consider it cheating (don’t really like that word), I just consider it pointless. What exactly was I trying to achieve there? LOL!!!
I just thought i would share my story so that others could have a chance to laugh at me/themselves also. Even though I am taking my new lifestyle very seriously, I promise I am not taking it that seriously. I believe in balance and right now my main goal is to get my insulin under control so my butt and my big belly balance each other out. Cause right now my belly’s double the size of my butt. I look like a female Hank Hill. That should never happen…but I digress…Love to all
Well said!
I think in a similar mindset most of the time. We do go to the Mexican restaurant in town on occasion. And I know I get a few more carbs there than I typically do on a normal day. And yes, I eat a few of the tortilla chips and salsa. I don’t eat the whole basket like we used to, but I eat a few, and I don’t feel guilty. I even eat the tortilla shell that the quesadilla comes in, along with a lot of chicken, cheese, onions and peppers, or maybe spinach or mushrooms or broccoli. Oh, I’d love to have some of their rice and beans, but instead, I’ll get dinner with their “salad”, which is basically a little lettuce, a little salsa, a dab of sour cream and a dab of guacamole. I would guess it’s maybe somewhere between 35 and 45 grams of carbs. Ya know what? I’m gonna eat it and enjoy. I’m not gonna beat myself up. I’m not gonna feel like a failure. And I’m not gonna spend much time worrying about whether I’ll knock myself out of ketosis. If past experience is anything to look towards, even if it does knock me out, I’ll be back in, probably the next day.
If I’m in social situations where I need to eat something and all there is to eat is fairly carby, I’ll pick something that’s the least offensive and have a tiny portion of it. Even if it’s a standard flour & sugar dessert, I may have a very tiny portion, just to show that I’ve had some. And a tiny portion of something like that, I don’t worry about at all. Funny thing is, a tiny portion will often satisfy my to the point that a larger portion will absolutely NOT be appealing, and will likely be almost sickening.
But on days that no one is eating out and it’s just me and my dear wife, we’re low carb and eating well, keeping on ketoing on, eating good food and enjoying it. No stress over macros, no guilt, we just enjoy our food.
Saw a recipe just yesterday from “All Day I Dream About Food” for a keto punpkin roll. I gotta check that out. Love a good pumpkin roll. Tis the season. So thankful for recipes that can make us wonderful treats that we can enjoy and still keto on, too! 
