Problems to keep off the sugar

(Erik) #1

Hi everyone.

I have done full keto before. From Christmas and forward approx 4 months. When I did this I almost didn’t have any suger cravings and it was pretty easy to start eating keto.

Now though. I’ve tried to start a couple of times and I seem to have a bad auger craving every day.

Somedays it is when I’m driving home from work and I feel like I have to stop at Lidl to buy 5 cookies.

Yesterday I had a good day at work, went home early and drow past Lidl but I felt like I didn’t have any cravings. So I didn’t stop. But after that I went for a 4 hour slow walk and when I came back home I was really tired and I felt the craving again. Didn’t go to Lidl right away, but after an hour I gave up and bought those freaking cookies.

To start of in the money I had two eggs, wee bit salmon and a coffee with butter, MCT and cream. After work, roughly 1 o’clock, I had tuna stake with avocado salad and dealt great. After that I started the 4 hour walk.

Do any of you have any suggestions how to deal with this and I would be really appreciated!

(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #2

Cacao butter. Whenever you feel craving suck on a piece or two or three.

PS As @Shinita observes, maybe you just need to eat more overall. Keto is not a calorie restricted diet plan and you should not feel hungry and especially ‘ravenously hungry’ during the day.

#3

It’s just an idea but it seems you eat very little. Maybe the coffee had lots of calories, maybe your avocado salad was filled with fat, I don’t know but the rest is super little. And it’s not even enough to eat much fat, at least it isn’t for me, I need a lot of satiating food, lots of fatty protein. Being perfectly satiated with nice keto food helps to some extent. Not in every kind of cravings but it easily may help. I was the worst when still hungry, even after years on low-carb without added sugar, hunger made odd things to my mind, it remembered some nice sugary treats I didn’t even want anymore…

#4

You need to eat a lot more fat. Seriously. It’s the fat that drives away the sugar cravings. Start carrying macadamia nuts with you and eat as much of them as you need to drive off the desire. Whenever you want sugar, immediately stuff some fat into your face! And try to make it as pure fat as you can. Carry a container of almond butter with you (NO SUGAR IN IT) and eat a tablespoon every time you need to. You can even mix a few drops of stevia into it and that will give you the sweet taste. Fat, fat, fat! It’s the real sugar-buster!

#5

Also, I make my own mint tea with liquid stevia. It’s really good at calming any cravings. Mint is super easy to grow and I use a combination of peppermint and spearmint. It takes a LOT of leaves to make good tea. I filll up a saucepan with leaves, I then grab the leaves in my hands and tear them up and smoosh them a bit. I then add water to the top (So its about 1:1 leaves to water). I bring it ALMOST to a boil, but not boiling, then turn off the heat and let it steep for 30 minutes or so. Drain and discard the leaves. Let cool. Pour over ice and add a few drops of liquid stevia. This really breaks any sugar cravings that I might have, especially that feeling you have after eating a meal.

(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #6

My further advice is to avoid everything/anything with carbs/sugar, including artificial sweeteners, stuff like stevia and nuts and nut butters. It sure sounds like you’re dealing with a carb/sugar addiction and feeding it carbs/sugar, even in small amounts, is not a good idea. Nor is catering to the desire for ‘sweet’. You can live without sweet and the sooner you lose it the better.

(Bunny) #7

Lack of vitamin C is why we crave sugar so much, (gulonolactone oxidase gene) only problem is finding a source that is not loaded with sugar because a glucose meter or any kind of device that measures blood sugar cannot tell the difference between vitamin C and sugar, don’t believe me, try it?

#8

Refined sugar is addicting. The memories. :joy:

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #9

Lack of vitamin C is hardly a problem on a low-carb/ketogenic diet, since the increased ketone production restores the body’s endogenous anti-oxidant mechanisms, making our need for vitamin C very low. On a high-carbohydrate diet, yes, we do need plenty of vitamin C, because the high insulin level resulting from the high carbohydrate intake shuts off the genes that provide the built-in anti-oxidants.