I'm back; turns out I really need you guys

(Trish) #22

Thank you to all of you for your support re keto and condolences re mom. @bybycarbs I’m at the end of week one and firmly seated on the proverbial wagon, so grab my hand and I will help pull you up. We’re all in this together.

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #23

Trish

Sorry for your pain. We are here for you. Stress is do horrible things to our journey. Hang in there.

(Trish) #24

thanks @daddyoh. After many false starts, I do believe that this time I am firmly in the race :sunny:

(Diane) #25

I believe all we can do is to learn as we go and keep trying.

Well done!

(Kirk Wolak) #26

Trish,
You should always have a plan for

  1. Your limit to falling off the wagon (a single missed weekly weigh in?)
  2. How to get back on the wagon
  3. An acknowledgement that this is an addiction (DONE)

I suggest the OOPS protocol. It’s really simple. In a simple ONE Meal screw up, I simply fast until I get to or below my Oops day weight, and then ONE MORE DAY. This helps ME because it gives me a PRICE. And I have to fast even if I have a hoilday meal, or something else scheduled. That’s the price. It keeps me on track.
It makes it easy to say “Wow, that cheesecake looks AMAZING! But no thank you, I have plans in a couple of days, or I just don’t feel like it today! YOU go ahead and enjoy it, while I live vicariously through your oohs and ahs!”

It also gives me a Price Tag for the indulgence! (For me, I would rather fast.
And if I did stop at a drive through, I would order 4 qaurter pounders with cheese, no bun nothing else, served on a tray with a fork and knife).

Next, your BIG OOPS! This is harder, as you have learned. Your body is responding like an addict. It knows you CAN give it up, so it wont let you. The cravings are high.
You need a FAT FAST. That is a 1-3 day (could be 5 if it takes 5 days) fast where you limit your food intake to ONE or TWO foods. That’s it. Any one meal is as much of ONE FOOD as you want. You are given permission to OVEREAT. Examples are bacon, sausage, avocado, olives. Pick something you enjoy. I have put away 3lbs of bacon on an oops fat fast day. Heck, one time, I did 3lbs of bacon at a SITTING!

You do this until you lose your hunger.

Now, once you are no longer fighting your hunger, and you rediscovered your self control. THEN you go back to a normal keto WOE for you.

Please NOTE, after wearing a CGM, the scariest thing I learned. STRESS = INSULIN for me. Actually. Stress, pushes Cortisol/Adrenaline. Which Push up Glucose (Seen on the meter), and then you get the insulin hit, shuts off your ability to access your fat stores as an energy source, which makes you HUNT for fresh food. And specifically fresh carbs. The feelings of being Hangry are back. Headaches can start, and that lack of focus thing… Until you feed the beast. (that’s how it happens for me).

Welcome back. GET ON IT. Fat Fast until you are FED and FULL.

Also, another trick I am using to control my calories a bit (fine tuning after reaching my goals), is to put the food I plan to eat on a second plate. And the plate in front of me, is smaller, and only for what I will eat in this “course”. I also eat the hardest part of the food first (in the case of ribs, I pull the bones, and work on getting the meat off of the knuckles/tendons. Only when they are clean, will I eat the easy meat. This gives my brain time to feel full. It lets leptin go to work, and gives me time to feel it. I just started this TODAY from Dr. Cyews (sp?)… It worked. It took me longer to eat, and I felt more satisfied, even though I only had ribs.

In the future, I will add 1 minute rest (through a timer) before I can put more food on my small plate. And slowly work that number higher.

I also use a TRF Window of 30 minutes. I don’t want to allow myself 90 minutes and get 2 insulin hits for a single meal.

I hope this helps. Take what works, ignore the rest. LOL

(Gary hoover) #27

Welcome back Trish and sad about your mother,life is hard at times.

(Teri Raia) #28

Thanks! Day 3 for me and I am doing meal prep now - makes my life so much easier to just cook a bunch and freeze. I always have problems sleeping at first and feeling a little “keto flu” but know it will pass. Hang in there - anytime u need a little lift I am here. We can do this thang…

(Cori) #29

Hi Trish, glad you found your way back. Sorry for your loss and of course the unwanted resulting gains. You know you’re in the right place. Be good to yourself as you grieve and stay keto; check into the site often and listen to The Podcasts if for no other reason to feel you are with friends who share your metabolic and nutritional journey.
Gee whiz…a donut shop? I don’t know how you did it. Before keto I would have been all over those glazed chocolate cake donuts​:flushed::face_with_hand_over_mouth::wink::heart:

(Carole) #30

It doesn’t matter if you fail as long as you keep trying. Hope everyone here can help💞