Overcook, then put leftovers in the fridge- ready meal for next day with minimal effort.
Sprinkle some cheese etc. over them next day for variation. Loadsa wee hacks like that you can learn- faster food than going to the drive through!
I screwed up today
coopdawg
#21
Shinita
#22
It did for me in the first few hundreds of times when I went off keto…
It starts to wear off now, I blame carnivore, it broke me 
(I still will have my delightful off days but this is me and I know what I am doing.)
@Voyager, KCKO! We are humans, it happens. I still do so stupid things, after years of even trying carnivore, after 11-12 years on low-carb, I learned, I trained, I evolved… But there are times when compulsive eating stills find me. It’s mostly not buying the stuff but getting them as gifts or made at home by my high-carber SO and they are there… But still. And I know it’s not good for me, I know it’s not half as tasty as my cheapest simple staples… But it still has a charm. There are so many reason to eat off, not necessarily valid ones but people are complex. I am sick now and that doesn’t help (of course I wouldn’t eat enough carbs to feel even worse, that’s stupid but doing stupid things without big consequences? I can do that).
Fortunately it’s not something that you can ruin by a single off day. Or two. Or many, eventually, at least if you are like me. My body is happy if I only have a not too extreme off day occasionally. It’s nothing like going back to a carbier diet, I can’t do that (without a carby apocalypse where it’s that or dying, I am sure I could handle it then).
So main thing you bounce back and don’t stay and ruin everything for a long while.
But it’s individual. Figure out what you need, what you can do, how you feel… I can’t stick to keto for long and feel no regret or problem if I add carbs sometimes so I do that. Rarely intentionally but if it happens, so be it. I train myself not to do it too often and definitely not without a good reason (like desiring something, that’s a good reason for me but not for everyone. I very, very rarely desire carbs, I am usually fine with little and I can handle those just fine. I can handle much more but it’s stupid to eat something because of a compulsion or bad decision. no joy, no desire, no need, no sense, bad deal).
I started to complicate things here but that’s what I do, think about it. I may realize it’s a bad idea to have certain items as it doesn’t make me any happier so I just don’t do it next time. Sometimes I think before I decide, a lot… And I reject and dissolve the wrong urge.
So maybe think about it. Is it really necessary? Do you want it? And if it’s an unfortunate situation (like being very hungry without proper food), can you do something to avoid it in the future? I tend to bring my food if I leave my home for a long time. If it’s not that long, I usually can fast.
Yes, yes, yes. I dislike seeing articles and comments suggesting simple=easy. It is not. I don’t even know why it’s not obvious to everyone. I have a ton of simple temporal or experimental or wished rules… And I almost never can do them (and they are made with me in mind! they would be good for me. rarely needed, fortunately but simple and helpful if I can pull off… I am usuyally content when I can do it sometimes).
But it’s ridiculously easy to cook some keto food… That lasts for days… I toss some meat into the oven for 2-3 hours, okay I turn and check if it’s dry maybe twice but it’s still close to zero effort. Many egg dishes are quick and easy too. I mostly just grabbed some raw vegs and that’s it for vegs but even that stopped on carnivore…
I do like to cook a bit more interesting things, even need it to some extent but I can do it when I wish. I can live on my simplest staple for days.
Shinita
#23
Regular bread isn’t THAT easy. Okay, maybe because I used a machine but my first several breads were just edible, not good…
Decades later I am still improving but as our taste and views changed, no wonder it was needed… And I just can’t stop experimenting…
Keto breads are easier to make I think especially the ones without yeast. They are just mix and nuke sometimes (egg and almond, that was good! only bread in a wide sense but it worked and was one of my tastiest).
Oh and I didn’t write last time but if I need food asap, I am home but I have no proper food… And don’t even want a bunch of eggs… And a small meal is enough… I just eat my fav soft sausages (and y sponge cake bread, the sausage is too fatty alone). Some people frown upon processed meat, I am not among them but it’s still better than some carbs anyway. For us who don’t thrive on carbs, at least. Though I doubt my health-conscious high-carber would be happy with some fast food…
Oh and we can stay 
I had a time when I couldn’t even eat much meat (not super convenient in carnivore, I must say… it wasn’t that bad and I went off all the time anyway, not like that necessarily helped much but I had difficulties) and definitely not always my typical pork roasts.
I still don’t eat that every day but quite often. And I eat roasted or fried pork very nearly every day. If I need some break, I eat some other meat or more eggs and dairy… I need some variety but I have it but still, I just got bored of meat before and it stopped at some point. Thing got waaaaay easier.
The beginning tends to be the hardest unless the novelty is very effective or the woe isn’t for you.
I go on that route sometimes… Though I noticed that if I want to eat not in a normal time when I even welcome food so my staples work beautifully, that’s already a tricky situation. But I still can choose the smallest evil (or a not evil, my stupid night eatings more and more often means just eating meat. I get hungry, I must eat, it can’t be helped. my desires/thoughts often go in a wrong direction when it’s not my normal eating window but I still don’t lose my ability to think and make not too bad decisions… it took me forever to reach this high state though).
buxomlass
#24
^^^THIS, so much. A brief off-road incident doesn’t ruin your journey. There’s a lot of unlearning and breaking old and ingrained habits to do, and that can take a while and some practice until you get it right and learn to stay on your path. Letting the brief off-road incident develop into a major detour in the wrong direction would be the real problem.
So show yourself some self-compassion, see if you can learn something from your little bit of off-roading, and just KCKO!
Fangs
#25
I did that too with stuff in fridge…but ‘unexpected’ munchies cover a few things.
- person didn’t eat enough point blank
- it is hard to change our eating that we ate since birth
so we must must must find ways to change these thoughts…work in progress for all of us. - commitment for change. how bad ya wanna change and WHAT ARE you willing to do for it.
- one thing I learned is stay on plan but eat very well, at all times you need it, drop the darn guilt from the brain that eating is wrong! ‘dieting’ is wrong, not eating your plan at all times. that saves us to heal the body and change.
- life is better not having to ‘prep and prepare’ and have backups at all times. I did it, omgosh I put tons of work into ‘just in case’ and in the end, when one wants change, works on themselves and eats very well on plan, this ‘need to prep’ leaves us.
- invest in a darn great cooler to bring food with you. geez I was easily a year with a cooler in my car being dragged to family outings and more where ‘I took care of me’ and KNEW I took all excuses out of the mix. I had food and I could easily do well.
Key to it all. Address the why fast! Why you hungry now?
Like Brian said above, 90% is breaking the mental game of the old. Bring in the new!!! Put in that work and life on plan gets so much easier and calm.
for me on this, key was I am 7 years. 1 Akins, 1 on extreme lc and learning me way more and then 5 yrs ZC. What I learned is that I enacted a ‘ONLY 1 bite rule’ and it saved me point blank. Hard to do sometimes but if I keep any off eating at 1 bite thru any events I did WELL for me and I felt me changing in it all. I felt me just realizing this is what I required for ‘help’ to me to change as I desired to change.
Commitment on my change I needed for best health forward meant 1 bite, and very selective and very rare if I did it, but it meant I had ‘an option’ if I so wanted to act on it.
I don’t know but everyone finds their ways forward and has little mind tricks and tips and learning that suits them to a T.
just jawing on it
SomeGuy
(Joey)
#26
Just pick yourself up and try to stick to this policy going forward:
The only thing you ought to eat is food.
Little else is worth putting in one’s mouth. 
Karen18
(Karen)
#29
No matter, don’t beat yourself up over it, if you can get back o the wagon again tomorrow then great just move on from this
You know it didn’t make you feel great afterwards, beside your guilty feelings so you know that Keto has been so much better for you which will hopefully give you that motivation to keep on keto-img. Good luck and don’t dwell on this, just move on xx
gingersmommy
(Marianne)
#30
I’m sorry; I know that awful feeling. I think it is rooted in years of horrible, conventional dieting that is based on deprivation and shame about overeating and our bodies. So, you went off the rails. Life happens. None of us are perfect and we all have slips and falls. Please consider picking yourself up and starting over with clean keto. You are still probably transitioning to a new WOE and are vulnerable. I’d return to eating three meals a day and don’t count calories or weigh yourself. Eat enough to where you feel nourished and satisfied. That will help with the carb cravings.
Truly what you describe is why I have finally recognized that I have a bona fide food addiction. I don’t care if people believe that is possible or not. I can’t eat certain things in moderation; I just can’t. And I loved to binge on mass quantities of food - whatever I wanted. I was a slave to eating and my addiction. Pre-keto, I was always searching for the perfect binge that for once would finally be enough where I could leave my binge foods behind once and for all. Of course, it never worked and was impossible. I don’t want to go back to that hell, so I stay away from a lot of things. Restrictive? Some might think, but it works for me. I don’t live to eat, although I love our meals. I don’t obsess about food any more. I take something out of the freezer in the morning to thaw and that is the extent of it. I find tons of things to interest me during the day that have nothing to do with food.
Put the club away and don’t beat yourself up anymore. It happened. It doesn’t make you a bad person. Every moment is the opportunity for a new beginning. Best to you!
gingersmommy
(Marianne)
#32
Oh, I hear you there. I detest cooking from recipes and am just not going to do it. I don’t mind pulling stuff out of the fridge for a mid-day “meal” on the go of sorts, and I do enjoy grilling our dinner. Most of the time, I am sitting on the deck waiting for it to cook and enjoying the outdoors or contemplating my navel. Very relaxing and pleasant. If it’s a leaner meat, I’ll throw some bacon grease on it for added fat. That is the extent of my “cooking.” My husband and I love it.
KetoSue
(Susan)
#33
I did the same last week (only mine was was Bojangles, was craving their country ham biscuit and they were on sale — and for some reason got a couple of their BoBerry biscuits as well because I “needed” something sweet) and the next day paid the price with aching joints and GI upset from the sugar and the wheat…just a great reminder of why I need to stay away from this stuff. And just a week or so before had gotten the ham biscuits (I mean, 2/$4, how could I resist lol) and when I returned home promptly tossed the biscuit part and put the 2 slices of ham between 2 savory chaffles…and was completely satisfied. So if nothing else, LAST week was a great albeit painful reminder of why I’m re-embracing keto.
P.S. My favorite McD’s is a double quarter pounder with cheese, just toss the (pretty tasteless) buns when I get home and take most of the onions off and it’s a decent meal, for fast food anyway. Much harder to do when traveling or just out & about running errands, so I need to start planning ahead for these situations; admittedly not something that comes naturally to me.
KCKO