I learned that one gin & tonic does NOT mix with a cheese platter and shrimp cocktail (I already knew it didn’t, I just conducted a confirmation self study lolol). I wanted red wine instead, but graciously accepted the offered homemade mixed drink, and did enjoy sipping it. But… my food sat in my stomach for AGES, and next day I woke up feeling pretty yuckk/headachey.
Lesson learned.
Red wine for the digestive win!!!
Lots of sugar in tonic water! My husband made me a gin and tonic last summer but used diet tonic water so low carbs.
Hope you feel better today.
I learned that at a year out I could enjoy my keto Christmas dinner, indulge in one serving of mashed potatoes and not trigger any cravings and can fast the next day w/o hunger or other issues. And not gain any weight!
Alcohol did/does the same for me, many times in self induced excess. Myself to blame
So sorry what you are going through😓
You got your Health back!
Keep that going
I did fine with food, but the alcohol was a problem - I haven’t been drinking that much but it’s still at least 4x what I had been drinking. It has resulted in puffiness, food cravings, night sweats, and moodiness. Oh, I also had a small amount of popcorn at the movies twice, and I felt negative effects from that.
What has been helping: fasting until lunch, apple cider vinegar, more time at the gym, and plenty of food. Turkey/cream cheese rollups have been my go-to holiday snack.
Like I already noted, a dose of food poisoning successfully navigated me through the expected Sunday-Monday carb binge and even ended with a 4-pound loss. My stomach has not yet fully recovered and I have not been able to handle a large meal yet — even fatty ones.
Having no gall bladder, the thought of heavy beef/pork meals even turns me off.
However …
I learned that carbs snacks like oatmeal cookies (10, I think) are more tummy friendly at this point in my recovery. Two cups of sweet egg nog were also comforting.
I was a like a puppy falling into a milk puddle.
Tonight I began at least a 18-20 hour fast to realign my system. (Plus all the cookies and egg nog are gone.)
Just hoping to stabilize in time for New Year’s Day which will be more like a college football tailgating than a Christmas sweet-fest. Aim to make room for gumbo and boudin next Tuesday then it’s back to EF/Keto in 2019.
I learned it’s sometimes not an easy but a queasy journey. But I’m still enjoying the ride.
No quit in this old Marine.
Thank you, I do. It was actually half mineral water and half elderberry tonic so not too bad on the sugar, but the Gin was not my friend lolol.
I had a 1-week holiday leave basically coinciding roughly one month of me attempting a not-perfect Keto. Am in Jakarta and this is quite a keto-unfriendly place. Local food is quite rice, bread, noodle heavy and western fast food is all over the place in malls. No keto snacks in convenience stores and labelling looks dodgy. Don’t know what people think who have been here. Decided to ditch Keto and will get back to it once am back home to restart everything. Lesson learned if you can’t access Keto don’t sweat it and starve. But I think if I was experienced Ketoer I would probably fast or do OMAD. As well I must say if you are new and haven’t gone into proper ketosis carbs and flavorful spicy food still taste damn good on the palate.
I don’t celebrate the holidays but while off work I ate too many carbs. I had what I can only describe as a carb hangover the next morning. I had a headache, upset stomach, and just plain felt awful!
I learned that I’m not as resistant to overindulgence of food as I think I am.
