Had a 48 hour cheat - what’s best to get back into Keto?


(Mark) #1

Hi

After a 48hour binge on beer, Indian takeaway, sweets, chocolate and some wine, I’ve had my fun now back to Keto, is a fast the best way back? If so how long? Or should I just go back to a Keto way of eating and eventually my ketones will come back?

Thank you in advance :slight_smile:


#2

There. I fixed your post. In other words, forget about it and move on and eat today like it’s the 100th day of keto in a row, not the first. :+1:


(Robin) #3

I got nuthin’. I can’t imagine doing that, or planning to.
I had a three-day total party weekend/reunion and never stepped outside my ZC lane. No one noticed cuz I can still party hard and even get out on the dance floor. I am still partaking of all the fun w/o anything to “get over” afterward.
But I gotta admit, you are definitely made of stronger stuff than me… I would not be able to pull out of that curve.

I know there are folks here who do cheat days, maybe even regularly. (I’m guessing they jump back on the horse and carry on.) They’ll have good advice for you. Let us know how it goes.


(Joey) #4

Your ketones never left you. All you have to do is click your heels three times and repeat “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home, …”

:vulcan_salute:


#5

Just go back to keto. You should get into ketosis very quickly, nothing special is needed. Fast if that is what your body desire and feels best but don’t force it. I don’t get this “fast after carbs” thing people are so much into, my body definitely hates when it wants food and it doesn’t get it (oh it always gets it, it can be super stubborn and revengeful about it :slight_smile: and I am not a masochist).

I never would call it cheat, I merely go off keto, very regularly. Maybe one day I evolve - and there is winter where I can avoid eating fruits all the time, I actually can stick to even carnivore for weeks…


#6

You go back to eating keto and wait for your liver glycogen to burn back off, there is no other way. Typically 48hrs or so, then you’ll be back. Don’t expect the scale to show it, since you probably ate enough to start filling up muscle glycogen again, but that’s not fat so it doesn’t matter. Great time to work out!


(Marianne) #7

That’s me, too. Knowing myself, I could be off and running for weeks. It chills me to think how fast the weight would come back on, and the guilt (for me), would be crushing. I know this from 40+ years of “dieting” and failing. I could never understand why I couldn’t control my intake or my weight, especially the few times I lost all of it.


(Marianne) #8

Agreed. Try to look at keto as just the way you eat now. I never tell people I “can’t” have anything - instead I say, “I don’t eat those things anymore. This just works for me.”


#9

This. One of the most motivating things I heard about 10+ years ago was when Robb Wolf said “that (bad) food is like a pencil to me. I look at it and can no longer fathom eating it.” I have a ways to go to get there, but I know what he means because there are times when I feel that way.


#10

I dunno, not so sure I could sketch all that well with a doughnut :thinking:


#11

@ElgynsToy: Artists used way less obvious tools for drawing than a chocolate-covered donut I am sure… You must be not creative enough - or your art isn’t enough abstract :smiley: I can relate, I am the same, by the way. Pencils are wonderful, I miss that level of control when I draw digitally…


I am a free one disliking restrictions so as I already wrote about it in another thread lately, I totally say I can’t eat something if I

  1. want to
  2. it’s the truth (okay, it’s actually needed for point 1, I am a honest person)
    I don’t understand why it would sound restricting or sad, it isn’t, it’s a mere fact of my life :slight_smile:
    (Sadly, I can eat almost anything. I can’t eat donuts, fortunately. Or spinach. Or salty water though that’s drinking. I can’t eat honey either, at least alone. I borderline can’t eat onions. What’s wrong with these? They are true and I like to say the truth here and there. I only never say these because I am a hermit and I don’t meet people.)

Each to their own. No one can take me away my right to express myself as I want :slight_smile:


#12

:rofl:

To be fair, some of my acrylic work could probably have been achieved with a doughnut :laughing:


(Cathy) #13

I think it really depends on your personal situation. How hard was it (or not) to go keto? If you struggled, I would suggest fasting for 24 hours to kick start ketones and thusly reignite your appetite suppression.

If you had no problems going keto, just jump back in where you left off.

Good luck and let us know how you do?