Keto binge

(Nathan Toben) #21

currently in a fugue state, binging, anxiety attacks, keto binging but i don’t know, i’m in the fiery dark right now.

(Emily Fink Ferreira) #22

I’m not sure how to take your comment. I hope you were being funny. This is really important to me, so I will say more.

I discuss it because the fact that I figured it out brings me immense pride and hope.

Compulsive behavior is bewidering and sometimes even frightening. It makes one feel lost and hopeless.

The fact that I have been honest with myself during compulsive behavior, written foods I’ve eaten in complete honesty, tracked volume of food, tracked exercise (and the resultant highs), tracked my cycle, my sleep, and moods shifts is an immense accomplishment.

Progesterone hijacks me every few weeks. I know that now and can prepare. It took me 30 years to see that.

We are walking, talking cocktails of hormones -men too- affected by light, sleep, nutrition, stress, etc. Despite this volatility, we can wade through info and help ourselves - but only if we are open, honest, and willing.

If men let thenselves be shut out by the mention of my cycle, they must not be that willing to stop bingeing.

(Emily Fink Ferreira) #23

Nathan, I get it, and I am sorry you’re stuck.

Enjoy the food if you can, and pay as much attention as you can to how you feel. XO

(Nathan Toben) #24

Yeah i was in a bad way when i posted last. thanks for the kind words. i’m not put off by anyone’s cycle, just my own.

(Cara Murray) #25

I experience this as well, I thought being Keto adapted would help, but still happens once a week. I check blood ketones and usually by fasting until afternoon I am back in Ketosis.
I am able to stay in Keto macros with my binges because I eat fat/protein and “Keto treats” mug cakes, fat bombs ect, but the calories are between 4000-6000!! The struggle is REAL!! I know all the steps and tricks and tips to stop, but in the moment I don’t care. It’s keeping me from my goal of losing 18lbs.

(Samantha Ziegler) #26

Everyone here has already provided good advice. Just poppin’ in to say I binged last night on SO MANY salami & cheese roll-ups (At least it was a keto binge!) and when I stepped on the scale today I had lost weight. Don’t worry at all, just drink lots of water!

(Barbara) #27

Nathan, hang in there. Little by little you are re-wiring your brain. Think of your brain as a system of roads: the negative/uncomfortable/unwanted thoughts were the super highways you traveled most of the time. Every time you take an exit off the super highways, you have the opportunity to create a nice, scenic route. AND just by taking time on a new road, the old negative/crazy superhighway starts to disappear. If you don’t use it, you lose it but in a good way! Find a new road to travel, plan some nice detours to take when the negative roads start pulling at you. Just like any new skill, you will fall plenty but get right back on. You can do this!

(Carpe salata!) #28

Rewiring the brain is so true!

Clinical neurologist Dr Norman Doidge wrote the book on it

_The Brain That Changes Itself_

  • a recent best seller. I found it online … must be legit, it was the first google search entry.
#29

Thanks for that!

Apparently when the Journal Cerebrum, at the Dana Foundation in the US, updated its list of great books about the brain for the general reader they put that book at #1 among 30,000 brain-related books in English! Brain science for non-academics! I’m ordering copy in book-form.

(Carpe salata!) #30

You’re welcome.

#31

Have you read or listened to ‘brain over binge’ ?? It helped me a lot! …a lot more than psychiatrists…doctors…medication etc!! Kathryn Hansen is the authors name :ok_hand:t2: