Starting over. :(

#1

I had a horrible day of binging on carbs. I started a 36-hour fast and got to 24 hours after having a headache almost the entire time. I felt like I was hot, feverish, and decided to break it with some almonds and mashed cauliflower. Hours later my headache was worse and something was telling me I needed sugar. Maybe my blood sugar was low?

I have been pretty strict Keto for almost two months, lost 19 pounds steadily. Whatever it was, once I scavenged my cupboards and found something with carbs, it was over. I immediately went into the old mindset ā€œwell, I ate carbs, may as well eat as many as I can and start tomorrow!ā€ I havenā€™t missed thinking that way but it sucks how quickly I reverted back to that.

What followed was a shameful sight. I even had groceries deliveredā€¦ two bags of carbohydrate hell. Ugh. So bad. Anyway, I start over tomorrow.

Iā€™m going to try to look at it as a fresh start and bought new groceries today with a good menu plan for the week. Two steps forward, one step back. Wish me luck!

(Katie Moe) #2

Thatā€™s the way to look at it. One event in a long journey. Keep your eye on the prize.

(Michael - When reality fails to meet expectations, the problem is not reality.) #3

Winners learn from getting knocked down and get up again. Losers donā€™t.

(Charlotte) #4

Calling it a ā€œstart overā€ does you a disservice imo. Starting over doesnā€™t erase your slip up. All it does is erase the previous 2 months worth of work. So instead of trying to erase it from your thoughts, accept you had a slip and LEARN from it. Iā€™ve had my slips over the last 8 months, but I chose not to ā€œstart overā€. You need to accept that things happen and try to avoid them in the future. Slips are nothing to be ashamed of. This is a journey of ups and downs not only physically but emotionally as well. Its life. Its messy. Its inconvenient. Its filled with opportunities and mistakes. Thats how you learn. No one is perfect. Everyone will slip once in a while. It happens. You pick yourself up and keep chugging along. You got this. You donā€™t need a ā€œclean slateā€ā€¦ you need to forgive yourself.

(Full Metal KETO AF) #5

I felt like that all day yesterday until I took three grams of rock salt, a BPC with 4 oz. of Espresso, Butter and MCT oil and an extra fatty dinner. It fixed me up pretty quick. I wished I had smartened up earlier in the day. I should know that by now almost a year into keto. Next time try fat, caffeine and salt before carb diving. The carbs are too temporary of a fix to consider loosing progress for them. They arenā€™t a medicine! :cowboy_hat_face:

(Susan) #6

The little red devil on your shoulder, listen to the white angel on the other side next time! (that image came to mind with that sentence you said).
Everyone makes mistakes at times, you just have to remember and try not to do that again -eating salt and some tea or coffee with some MCT powder/oil in it will help when you feel like that next time try those, as @David_Stilley suggests above. It really helps.

You donā€™t need to start over; you have already been doing great until last night, it is a blip. Yes, it shouldnā€™t have happened, but just learn from it, and donā€™t let it happen again. No one is perfect, everyone makes mistakes in life, just correct it, and move on =). It is spilled milk now, so you wipe it up and keep going =).

Just remember this, and eat a spoonful of salt, gulp down a large glass of water, and make a coffee/tea and add some MCT flavoured powder next time (I have vanilla and chocolate) and it feels like a decadent treat but is totally Keto and not naughty!

(Hyperbole- best thing in the universe!) #7

Even the salt may be enough. I carry some in one of those little round cosmetic containers in my purse. I rarely use it, but I like knowing itā€™s there, especially if Iā€™m fasting.

(Susan) #8

That is a great idea, Ruina. I should get a small container at the Dollarama to do that with as well. Thanks for the idea =).

(Rebecca šŸŒø Frankenfluffy) #9

Awwww, sending hugs! Notch it up as ā€˜one of those thingsā€™ - and today is a new day!

I have started doing something which has really helped. Like very many people I have the tendency to overeat when Iā€™m tired, ā€˜coming downā€™ from a big achievement, or am simply home alone. My strategy to avoid this is to say out loud exactly what it is that Iā€™m going to be eating. Mr S is away at the moment, and saying this OUT LOUD to myself last night kept me from eating the house:

ā€˜Tonight Iā€™m having cauliflower and buttery scrambled eggs with grated cheese and mayonnaise on top, and a sugar-free jelly for pudding, and then Iā€™m going to STOP.ā€™

It does work!

(Failed) #10

I donā€™t know how to link to a post I wrote a few days ago, so Iā€™m copying the whole thing here.

From one carb addict to another: you are not a failure. I am nearly 70 and have a lot of experience with carb addiction and trying to successfully kick it. What Iā€™ve learned is that carb cravings (for me, Iā€™m not speaking for anyone else) are the result of every single cell in my body crying out for food. Carb cravings (again, speaking only for myself) cannot be ignored any more than you can hold your breath for 30 mins just because you have decided to. It feels like itā€™s a matter of life or death. You should not feel like a failure for responding to that.

This time my journey to keto started accidentally. After being an uncontrolled T2 diabetic for over 40 years and having carbed myself into retinopathy and neuropathy and with glucse readings in the 400s, I was looking for SOMETHING to help me. The medical community is not an option for me for many varied and horrific experiences, but thatā€™s a whole other story.

While researching, I stumbled across an article about inositol helping with insulin sensitivity and it seemed to be fairly innocuous even at large doses. I also read that choline bitartrate at a 40:1 inositol:choline ratio was a good choice to pair it with. So I ordered them both in powder form from Amazon. After a few days of at least 3 doses a day, I noticed I was eating fewer and fewer carbs, because I simply didnā€™t want them and the strawberry cheesecake Jelly Bellies Iā€™d been snacking on many times a day just didnā€™t taste good any more.

In under a week, I was low carb, but hadnā€™t yet read about LCHF. In another serendipitous chance, I learned about Dr Fung on a post on a knitting community forum I belong to, ravelry.com I read both his diabetes book and his fasting book. I then decided to try a 36 hour fast that turned into a 7 day (minus 4 hours) fast. With inositol and choline several times throughout the day, it was totally easy. I had mild carb cravings (cells calling for help) a few times, but a dose of inositol and choline took care of them within minutes.

Iā€™m not saying everyone should try inositol and choline, just offering my years of experience of feeling like a failure when I know now itā€™s not and never was a personal failure, any more than not being able to hold my breath for 30 mins is.

(April Harkness) #11

Back in Jan i slipped up too. I did not bounce back right away. Although i did not get even a 1/4 as big as i was before keto, i did lose that leanness i had gotten and was ticked off at myself. I am glad it happened though. Why? It made me a better ketoā€™er. I could now recognize things that might trip me up. I also realized that dirty keto was not for me and started getting rid of crutches that led me to binge. It took me from end of Jan to March to get back to where i was previous to my binge but it was worth it for how much learning i did about myself and keto.

#12

Eye on the prizeā€¦ I may have to make this a mantra I repeat over and over in my head!

I absolutely am not a loser so I shall get back up and keep going!

#13

Youā€™re right. I should have said ā€œrestartā€ I think. I was sort of thinking of it as a new beginning because I think was getting a little lax and allowing carb creep here and there, and maybe jumping into fasting a little early when I was steadily losing pounds. I was messing with something that didnā€™t need messed with.

#14

I did try caffeine and salt and bone broth but none of those seemed to help. However, Iā€™m learning just how much sodium I really should be getting so I may have not had enough. I may look into MCT oil too.

Thanks for the ideas and advice. I have never had to intentionally or deliberately add more salt/sodium to my diet so I think i was a little gun shy on adding so much, especially when I felt like I had a fever and a borderline migraine headache. I got scared I think! :scream:

#15

Thatā€™s a good strategy! I have to figure out something like that for myself. Something that will hold as a line I wonā€™t cross. But the past two months I was doing so well, was disciplined, motivated and steady and then I just LOST MY MIND! :slight_smile: Thanks for the advice!

#16

Thatā€™s exactly how I felt. Life or death! I didnā€™t black out per se but itā€™s almost like that. I remember ordering groceries and even my thought process and knowing I was making very poor decisions but it felt so automated. Old habits die hard I suppose.

#17

Lesson learned, huh? I appreciate you sharing that experience. Iā€™ll learn from this Iā€™m sure. I was sliding a little out of my strict Keto the past week so I may look at my food logs and start back with what I ate the first few weeks on Keto, repeating that purer version of meals and menus. Itā€™s a slippery slope!

(Rebecca šŸŒø Frankenfluffy) #18

Thanks, @TimeForMe - I find itā€™s quite a useful tool to help keep me on the straight and narrow!

Itā€™s so great to read all your responses - it sounds like youā€™re doing a fabulous job of moving on! :+1:

(Susan) #20

Welcome to the forum Krisoffer.

Keto is very simple, you donā€™t need to spend all that money and join that site.

All you have to do is eat 20 grams or less of carbs a day, NO Sugar, adequate proteins and healthy fats, drink lots of water, keep your electrolytes and salt intake up and if you have questions, ask us on here.

(Hyperbole- best thing in the universe!) #21

Hi Susan, I deleted the post you were replying to because it was spam disguised as a new member. But I kept your reply because I thought it was really good. You are right, you donā€™t have to spend all that money. :smile: