Ate one cookie and made me sick

(Eric) #1

I’ve been on keto for about 3 weeks and have done well with the diet plan. I have not cheated at all until today. My wife had our 7th child Saturday and friends have been bringing lots of cookies and snacks to our house. I’ve done really well until now but today I ate one cookie and it made me feel really sick. I feel terrible both in body and spirit bc I feel a failure. I never even cared much for sweets before the diet but I’ve recently found myself craving them. I know I’ve probably kicked myself out of ketosis and I’ll have to go through that again but how much damage have I done to myself over one cookie and has anyone else felt sick after cheating?

#2

You’re not a failure, don’t worry about it. The longer you go without sugar the more it will make you feel ill when you cheat with it. But it happens. Tomorrow’s a new day, just go back to Keto.

Congrats on the kid btw.

(Laurie) #3

Not sick to my stomach. But heavy, achy, stiff, cobwebby.

Don’t worry about it. We live and we learn!

(Troy) #4

Congratulations!
Wow😀

And you only had 1 cookie in the celebration?
That’s some Huge constraint and willpower
To Me, that’s a victory :slightly_smiling_face:

In just one day-one cookie-
More importantly, ONE awesome blessing of a newborn!!

Go forward and move on
One day at a time
Good Luck

(Allie) #5

Just forget it and get back to what you were doing before. What’s done is done and there’s no sense beating yourself up.

(Lazy, Dirty Keto 😝) #6

Don’t beat yourself up, just get back on the horse. KCKO! And congrats on the baby :blush:

(Susan) #7

KCKO and congrats, 7 is a lucky number.

(Todd Batitis) #8

You need to set your bar a little differently if you are considering yourself a failure for eating a cookie. Eating a cookie doesn’t put you in the category of “OMG I RUINED EVERYTHING!!” All it does is slow you down by a TINY amount. VERY tiny.

Three months into doing keto my wife celebrated out anniversary and I went out for dinner on Saturday to an Asian buffet. I WAY overate my carb limit and calorie limit. If I had to guess I was probably in the 150g-200g range and probably 3000-4000 calorie range. On Sunday, after going bowling on as we have been doing Sunday mornings since it is cheap… we stopped at Sizzler and had the AYCE Salad Bar and again, I WAY overate my calories and carbs. Again, probably 100-200g and around 3000 calories. After a couple of errands we went to Dairy Queen and I got a large Blizzard.

In the end it all sat like a ROCK in my stomach and it is all a learning experience. Did it kill me? No. Did it “ruin everything”? No. Did it take me from 236 pounds on Saturday when I left work to 242 when I got back to work on Monday? Yes. Getting back on track put me back at 236 when I left work the following Saturday. All it did was set me back a week.

You had a cookie. You are going to be OK. Go back to eating like you should and you will be fine.

(Jonathan Hurley) #9

I started keto on Dec 7, and it only took a couple of weeks to lose 20 pounds and dramatically impact my health. On new year’s eve, I felt worthy of one last treat to end the year, so I bought a large pepperoni pizza.

I guess my taste receptors had already started to change, because my favorite food tasted awful, and I actually had to put fatty ranch dressing on it just to halfway enjoy it. I ended up eating 3/4 of it. And of course, I felt HORRIBLE. All those carby feelings in my body started coming back in full force.

But here’s the thing: the very next day, I went back to fat and protein. And after two days, I was back to feeling good and losing weight. At the worst, I cost myself two days of progress. Sometimes you have to experience this to remind yourself why you’re making this change. But no, you dont have to start from square one. Just pick right up and get going on the keto path again.

(Shanda) #10

First congrats on the new baby!
Second you are doing great. Don’t beat yourself up. As long as you go right back to eating right one cookie isn’t the end of the world.
Third to address the feeling like crap issue. I had this happen to me yesterday. I got a coke zero because I was badly in need of some caffeine. I used to drink it nonstop throughout the day. Not only did it taste horrible to me, but I had horrible indigestion and gas for the rest of the night. As our bodies adjust to the new nutritious foods we are putting in it no longer tolerates the crap. Your brain might still want it but your body is gonna make you pay.

(Jeff) #11

that’s pretty good I had 4 cookies over Christmas and was sick for three days
after

(Garry (Canada)) #12

Don’t sweat it. Just get back on track…and keep doing what you do best.
:hatching_chick::hatching_chick::hatching_chick::hatching_chick::hatching_chick::hatching_chick::hatching_chick:

(Jill F.) #13

I had keto flu soooo bad for several days when I started 3 weeks ago it is the best encouragement ever to not eat junk, maybe ever again! I have passed up lots of sweets, junk food at parties, etc since starting with minimal I wish I could eat that! I had 1 bite of birthday cake after 2 weeks on keto and I felt absolutely exhausted the rest of the day. It’s crazy right!?!

(Banting & Yudkin & Atkins & Eadeses & Cordain & Taubes & Volek & Naiman & Bikman ) #14

1- You haven’t really “kicked yourself out of ketosis” in any way that can’t be undone in a day or so.

2- How much damage did you accumulate in the years before starting keto? The cookie error is not the straw that will break the camel’s back. It’s just another step that you have to take again.

3- I’ve never felt sick from one cookie over the line, but I’ve made myself feel pretty awful with cheating. Usually it comes from a dual threat of overeating carbs by a large amount and eating way more calories than I usually eat. I kind of have to do both to feel really ill. But your mileage may vary.

4- Feeling bad in spirit is probably making you feel worse physically. It’s entirely possible that you made yourself feel ill with nothing but guilt and shame for eating a cookie. Consider the insanity of that. You had a momentous occasion, the birth of a child (though by #7, is it all old hat by now?), and you had an indulgence. You can say, “okay, I had a cookie, it’s now another day and I can do better” or you can beat yourself to sh!t for having a cookie at a moment when you were likely tired and hungry and emotionally empty. Your choice.

(Eric) #15

Thank y’all for the kind words! I actually stayed in ketosis and lost 1.5 lbs after eating the cookie so I was stressing for nothing. However it did make me feel bad physically and gave me just enough encouragement to pass up on the cookies today and hopefully hereafter.

Keto on, friends.