Husband and I had a carb meal. Here are our results

#1

Husband and I have been full keto for 3 months. He’s lost around 30lb, I lost closer to 35. (I have more to lose.) We each had just one pre-keto meal that we’d been missing - a burger with a bun and fries for him, and a real burrito for me.

So we decided that we would have one carb meal together and stay accountable to each other in jumping right back on the keto train. Here are our results.

Him:
Felt energized and wanted to go to the gym. Got a great night’s sleep, woke up this morning 0.5lb down.

I don’t think he was ever metabolically deranged or insulin resistant like many of us here. He is considering having a healthier once-a-month carb meal (potato and/or fruit) before hitting the gym.

Me:
Felt like garbage within an hour of eating. Bloating, gas, cramping. Could barely stay awake to put our kid to bed and passed out almost immediately after. Woke up and had fire [spoiler]shits[/spoiler] all morning. Up about 7lb. Stomach is still angry with me.

To be honest, I’m relieved that it made me feel terrible. As a former binge eater and carbaholic, I need the relative rigidity of keto to keep me on the right path. My carb day could have easily turned into a carb bender if I hadn’t felt so poorly afterwards. I will not be repeating the experience.

So there you have it! It was important to me to try it and see what would happen, and now I have even more incentive to stay keto for life. I’m happy my husband had better results, and if periodic carbs end up working out for him, more power to him! I’ll continue avoiding them like the plague. :grin:

(Ken) #2

Give it time. For me, it took over two years before I stopped feeling like you and started feeling like him.

For him, he could easily eat carbs on the Weekends.

(Bob M) #3

I think, regardless of time on keto, you have to watch your triggers, if you have any. For instance, I can eat potatoes in a meal (say, small potatoes made with beef), and I won’t want to eat any more. Meanwhile, ice cream will make me want to eat all of it. The same with any “chip” (potato chip, tortilla chip), I can eat the whole bag. (Which is odd, considering I never really ate those until well into obesity.) To the extent I can, I avoid trigger foods.

(Todd Batitis) #4

I was doing LCHP (85/160) for about 2 months or so before I ran into IF and started doing 20:4. During that I learned how well keto matched up with it both in weight loss and more importantly heath related reasons and started doing keto and IF together in June 2018. We have had a 3 or 4 days since then (mom’s visit, wife coming back from a cruise, etc.) where I went off the keto eating and ate stuff I don’t normally eat because we went to an AYCE buffet (Sizzler and an Asian one). Surely the it wasn’t keto as my protein and carbs were would have been WAY over, not to mention the calories.

I didn’t have any of the feeling like crap that many report nor did I have any sort of derailment where I wanted to fall back to my old ways. In each case I just switched from 20:4 IF that day to OMAD and wrote it off and got back on the horse the next day. A couple times I actually weighed less the next day, a couple times I gained a few pounds and by the end of the week they were gone along with 1-2 more.

I am sure that everyone is different in both mental mindset and physical reaction just like there are plenty of former alcoholics that truly can’t have just a beer or two without getting derailed while I know others who can.

The important thing is that you are learning about what you can and can’t do right now. In the future, who knows but you have to do what works for you right now. :slight_smile:

(Todd Allen) #5

That sounds like a food sensitivity. Beans? Gluten? Onions?

#6

Probably the gluten. No beans and very little onion.