Sin on the lips... forever on the hips

(Jeanine) #1

Hello there Keto God’s. I am in my fourth week of this amazing Keto journey. I am 10 lbs down and feeling fantastic. I was just wondering …if you eat just ONE TINY bit of a candy bar or maybe SLIVER of cake on a special occasion, that throws you out of Ketosis???

(John) #2

Once you get past the initial period of switching to a fat burning metabolism, and particularly if you are consuming a maintenance level of food, you naturally go into and out of ketosis several times a day.

If you eat enough carbs to where your body can run on that glucose for a while, it will stop producing ketones until it uses them up, and then go right back to using ketones.

Small amounts should not be a problem once in a while, unless that turns into a slippery slope for you.

(Sheri Knauer) #3

Personally I don’t think its a good idea in the first weeks of eating keto. You are either not yet fat adapted, in which that could delay the fat adaption process, or you are on the cusp of becoming fat adapted, which again, eating crappy carbage will set you back. Now, if in the next few days you are going to a special event or traveling to another country that has a certain item you know you cant have back home, then go ahead and have a bit. If you just want some to have some , then there are plenty of keto alternatives you can make, like these delicious chocolate butter cups. https://carriebrown.com/archives/33001
Cheating this early in your keto journey could be a slippery slope and can turn into a carb fest. You have the rest of your life to have a little taste of this or that. It can wait. Build up your metabolic machinery first through strict keto, then small indulgences here or there will have a much less impact on your body.

(Eric - The patient needs to be patient!) #4

Go with what Sheri says!

(Carl Keller) #5

This title… :grinning:

(Jeanine) #6

Interesting… I won’t indulge now… I am strict Keto. Was just wondering if it is doable in the future. I don’t want to mess up a good thing. Thanks John

(Jeanine) #7

Thanks Sheri. Excellent advise. I too agree with what you said. I was just wondering if “the luck of the knife” after cutting cake , or tiny tiny tiny bit of my daughters candy bar would destroy what I’ve built. I have zero desire to cheat. I’ve never felt more amazing on this program , BUT sometimes the devil pops up on my shoulder and I have to shake him/her off. Thanks again Sheri

(Jeanine) #8

You like that huh? Sad but true😂

(John) #9

That is my challenge. I know that eating 20g of sugar in a candy bar will not by itself do anything other than spike insulin for a few hours.

But I have spent a fair amount of time and willpower getting to a point where I have no cravings for sweets at all. That is a hill I do not wish to have to climb again.

This is not my first battle so I have learned where my weaknesses are and what lines to draw.

I decided to treat sugar like an addictive substance. Ex-smokers can’t risk one cigarette, recovering alcoholics can’t risk one drink.

That’s been my approach and it seems that having that as an iron rule has helped me so far.