Male, 54 YO, weight starting 209 lbs, weight currently 191 lbs.
My first post, sorry if I am not doing this correctly. I have been Keto since July 8th of this year and have had a few obstacles to overcome with this diet but nothing so far that has seemed undo-able. A little about why I decided Keto might be for me.
This whole journey didn’t start for weight loss as much as looking for a way to lower my blood pressure, which with meds, (20 mg of Linsinopril) was averaging around (155 over 90), I knew that was not sustainable and other things had to be going on in my body that i wasn’t fully aware of yet. My doctor kept asking me to get blood work but between stubbornness and work it just never happened.
So I started searching for viable solutions to blood pressure control and came across Keto as a possible way to handle this issue, interestingly enough it also looked like weight loss would be a side effect, who would have issues with that, certainly not I. So I started digging into the diet and kept seeing all of the possibilities that came with this way of eating, weight loss, lower blood pressure, diabetes control, (diabetes runs rampant on my moms side of the family), less visceral fat, the list goes on and on. So decided to jump in head first and started eating less carbs and more fat, (which goes against everything I had ever read or heard, but no less willing to go for it.
So I thought if I am going to do this I need to find more info, and it just so happened that I came across “2 Keto Dudes” podcast and learned more than I thought I ever would, or more than I ever knew I needed to know about metabolism, metabolic rate, diabetes, blood glucose. insulin, fasting, and all the different guests they have had over the course of their existence. Have listened to all of them up until April of this year and will continue to finish all of them till I have heard them all, what a wealth of knowledge from these two. Thanks to both of them for helping through this and keep up the great work, or “just show me the science” as they always say.
Anyhow, so last night got this extreme urge for something sweet and there was just no squashing it at all, tried to satiate it with Stevia sweetened coffee, then another cup with Stevia and a little cream, but no satisfaction yet and the craving was getting progressively worse, so finally said to hell with it and went with my wife to get some ice cream at a local place that makes their ice cream in the store, and that stuff is awesome, literally! So, as I was eating this awesomeness, I started to feel guilty, but not guilty enough not to finish my 2 scoop version of that sugar laden sweet dream. Oh, that stuff was delicious, but I knew it couldn’t be good jumping the rails, and would have to atone for my misguided tour of the other-side of Keto.
So fast forward to today as I write this post, I am cooking Bacon and Eggs and will follow that with at least a 5 day fast following breakfast, this will be my third fast, first was 38 hours, and second 72 hours, both of which I seem to handle pretty well.
What if any advice could you guys offer in relation to quelling these occasional, but misguided cravings for sweets? definitely don’t want to do this again!
I guess as Carl and Richard always say “Keep Calm and Keto On”!
