Cravings are back, WTH?

(Farhan Ali) #1

Hi ,

I have experienced results beyond my expectations. Its my 5th week now , loosing weight and all.

Encouraged by my results i did an unplanned 18 hr fasting on friday. It went so well that on saturday i did a 21 hr fast. When i broke my fast yesterday i was not able eat much. Today morning i had a cup of bone broth. Two hours later i was so hungry… i have not been this hungry for weeks. Then i ate a big meal but my cravings are back. I am craving burgers and pizzas and pastas and every thing.

By the way, the big meal i had was keto … minced beef meet cooked with broccoli capsicum and jalapenos (i like it spicy) and a few olives.

Whats is going on here? What did i do wrong?

(Jules Swart) #2

I don’t think you did anything “wrong”. Your body is just really hungry and is used to wanting those foods. Your body is still getting used to fueling differently, so two days without (much) food left it hungry. Now is the time to enjoy a fabulous keto meal and keep going. In my experience, even after a couple of years, when I’m really hungry, my brain still “wants” junk, even though my mouth tells me NO at the first bite…

(Karen) #3

I get a lot of hunger from bone broth too, even though I add butter.

K

(Chris W) #4

At only five weeks, depending upon how carb addicted you were before starting you have had a natural reaction to an up shot of insulin from the meal. So you did nothing wrong, when I was faced with those I ate fat, I believe you still have to train your body some yet.

Salt can also make you feel hungry, so I would make sure you have upped salt, this caused me some issues at about 4 weeks.

Cravings for me at least did not end for burgers(i still have them without the bun), pizza still have that as well(fathead version) but they are not hangry reactions more like hey I think a pizza would be good.

As fat adaption picks up, your IF windows become easier as you are seeing, and for me at least the hunger drops considerably.

(Karen Parrott) #5

Yes! I had break through cravings for 1-2 years into weight maintenance.

I had to identify food triggers and remove them. Most sugars, all grains, all nuts, and emulsifiers like guar gum and xantham gum all produce huge food cravings for me.

Once you can ID anything that is triggering stay away from it. I can do some 85% chocolate and be fine, but anything less than 70% chocolate and food addiction (I call it the disease) is back 10X worse than it ever was. I’ve been food sober for almost 7 years.

Here’s to identifying any food or emotional triggers to binge urges. I learned not to use satiety as a signal to stop eating. Most days, even 6 years mild keto and may go weeks without normal signals.

good luck. I’m keeping 70 pounds off for 6+ years. Learned this the hard way.

(Alan Williamson) #6

If a person is hungry a couple hours after eating it is likely that insulin was spiked from the food. For myself, foods that don’t make me hungry hours later are butter, coconut oil, and hard salami. These are my good to snacks when fasting.

#7

Ditto here to the bone broth hunger deal - it’s delicious with butter but I have to chew my protein, I suppose

#8

This morning I waited until 10:30 to eat 2 eggs 1 bacon 1/2 avocado and immediately after eating was hungry so I downed about 1.5 cups of raw macadamia nuts.

Nuts may now have to go on my no no list?

I also have to take a look at intermittent fasting and see if it triggers overeating?

Any help on this much appreciated!

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #9

Try increasing fat. I don’t have any experience fasting (except with whatever IF comes naturally), but I understand you do have to be careful how you start eating again after a fast, but I find that enough fat in a meal keeps me from being hungry for hours and hours.

On the other hand, I have been keto for a year now and still get carb cravings, even when I am completely not hungry. It’s part of my sugar/carb addiction. Those I have to handle pretty much the same way as a drink signal, because they are not at all connected with how I have been eating.

#10

Wouldn’t worry about it at all, at only 5 weeks your not fully adapted yet and your brain hasn’t been fully deprogrammed, so when your hungry your still gonna think of your OLD go to meals/snacks. Stay the course, you’ll be fine!

(Farhan Ali) #11

Thanks guys . I guess we are all n=1.

The support i recieve from you guys helps me break through all the barriers. I guess with all the success i have had i started expecting too much from my body. I need to take it a little slow.

I am having hunger pangs since sunday but am able to control my meals to 2 times a day with minor snacks of cream cheese, couple of nuts or couple of olives in between.

Good thing is i am now able to do my planned workout with relative ease without any issues of low strength which I was feeling till last week.

The idea that IF triggers hunger seems valid for me too. But i need to test that theory. I am also checking if bone broth triggers hunger pangs.

Will keep you guys posted.

(Candy Lind) #12

I pretty much need to chew my calories, period! Drinking something never satisfied me.

(Mike W.) #13

I’m the same way. I could drink 3,000 calories of BPC and still eat normally. Did nothing for me besides tasting delicious.

(Candy Lind) #14

IMHO you would have done better to plate up a second plate like the first (that really wasn’t that big of a meal!). Not that Mac nuts are bad - I nibble them on a regular basis - but … :woman_shrugging: I’m betting you wouldn’t have made it through the whole thing. And I’m curious as to whether you have ended up with “disaster pants” as an aftermath?

Remember the old “eat when you’re hungry” mantra - with the caveat that you have to have good satiety signals working. That’s one place that calorie tracking might be in order. I still don’t have great satiety signals, so I track calories to a point. That said, I’m doing better with weight loss since I stopped tracking again.

(Nanci O'Connell) #15

I have been keto for 9 months and only “cheat” about once a month, usually with. At other times i don’t even eat sugar substitutes but when I am hungry I am more likely to crave sweets. Sometimes I just randomly crave sweets. The cravings don’t last long if I take care of the hunger.

(Shawn) #16

Cravings happen. I average a cheat day once every 2 months. I didn’t exercise for months when I started keto/fasting. I noticed when I joined the gym and starting working out I was very hungry after. Just stick with keto and watch out for hidden carbs or artificial sweeteners. I think sweeteners make me feel hungry sometimes too.

Keep calm and keto on!

(Karen Parrott) #17

All nuts were, are, and will be 100% binge triggers for me. Abstaining FTW. I really like Weight maintenance after 40 years of yo-yo dieting. I don’t miss them at all

(Jennifer ) #18

Nuts can be very triggering for some people - you’re not alone.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #19

So . . . these forums, then? (Did I say that?) :smiley:

(Candy Lind) #20

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: