Had a rough night - a little lie to help me KCKO

#1

For reasons too complicated to explain here (but which I understand), I ate way too much non-Keto stuff last night. As I was psyching myself up to KCKO today, here was my approach/thinking:

  1. Did not test blood ketones this AM like I normally do. I know a .2 or .3 (down from 1.5 yesterday) would have bummed me out (and been a waste of $1.50 ketone strip!)

  2. Did not weigh myself because I know the 2 lbs increase would have been 99% water, but still bummed me out.

  3. Although this isn’t quite technically correct, I’m telling myself that some people purposely do a cyclical ketogenic diet by “carbing up” once a week or so, so let’s pretend I did that (but let’s not do it again… :grin: )

Finally, I’ll keep telling myself this…

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(Allie) #2

I do much the same when I know I’ve gone a bit off track, i just wait a few days then check as i know by then things will be back to how they should be. No point beating yourself up, that’s when the crazy cycles of guilt / cravings / food start to bite.

(Linda Culbreth) #3

Get up that 8th time, throw (give away) away your scales. Add a few mores slices of :bacon: and go forth in keto!

(Doug) #4

Well said, Linda. “8 times” might seem like a lot, but compare that to how many episodes it took to get us to where we made the change. (Probably 10,000 or more for me.)

#5

Good for you. It pays to explore those reasons why and see if you can figure out some strategies to put in place next time a similar situation arises because it likely will. Be prepared!