Survey: Does Any Particular Carb Food(s) Challenge Your Resolve to Eat Keto?


(Bob M) #21

To the extent “difficult to avoid” means you want to eat it, after 7 years keto/low carb, yes.

Several to many of them. Pizza for one. Ice cream for two. Hamburgers (or sandwiches) with real buns instead of lettuce wraps or having to cut them. Nice chocolates from a nice chocolate shop. Fried potatoes that come with omelettes. Hash browns. Not a big fan of pasta anymore, but good raviolis would be nice. Thai or Chinese food with noodles. Indian food with rice. Sushi. When I make a nice roast with a great sauce, something to suck up the sauce (bread? Rice?).

Need I go on?

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had very few of any of that in the last 7 years. But it doesn’t mean I don’t want it.


(Susan) #22

YES (I don’t eat them but I know I would still love all Candy -my vice).


#23

Short Answer
In my first year of Keto which started in April 2017, I would have said no. However now I would say Pizza is and always will be my kryptonite. Yes I can eat fathead pizza but I usually hate bothering to make it and lets face it, it is good but does not compare to authentic Sicilian or deep dish or stuffed pizza.

Longer Answer
However, in general I have more problems with situations, whether it is a new taco restaurant that everyone is raving about or a special bbq where the best thing is the bbqed mac and cheese (not sure that is a thing but you get my point). In my first year I handled things better than I do now, there were situations, as I was going to a lot of weddings and formal events that year, so I had to figure out how to drink and stay keto, I used to drink this disgusting vodka, ice and lemon and lime mixture (until I got sick from an unwashed lemon or lime at one event, 30 other people I knew there, no one else got sick so I assume that was it). I have since switched to dirty vodka martinis which are so much better. I got very good at having one bite of dessert and then moving on. I lost 35 lbs in 4 - 6 months (some fluctuations) and could count on a couple of fingers how often I broke keto. Pizza is, was and always will be a challenge but I used to handle it well. I would buy pizza for the family, drop it off and leave the house during my first month. Then I stopped being tempted. I hosted a big event in December 2017 and was at my lowest weight, no longer among the heaviest people in the room but still hardly considered fit and trim but I looked ok, was going to the gym and fasting.

Then starting in Januray 2018 I found I could not longer do longer fasts, was no longer losing, got discouraged and gained a little, gained a little more in 2019 and gained most everything back during the quarantine. However, my long winded point, other than Pizza is my kryptonite, was that I found I was starting to make excuses again. Oh, this is a special party I will just eat carbs tonight and then a week later, same story. Plus if there was pizza left over from the night before I would not go back to keto until the pizza was gone (even though there are other people in my house who are happy to eat it). Now that I have gained all this weight back I am determined, if for no other reason than I do not want to buy new clothes! Will go back to eating Fat Head Pizza

A week later:

I started this post a weeks ago and never posted it because it was too darn long! However, I happened to go back to it tonight and there have been some interesting developments. I have mostly stuck to Keto since I first wrote this. Have done a couple of easy short fasts ~42 hours.I have mostly elimintated eating after dinner at 9 which was a big problem. I even bought pizza for the family and did not eat it (I did have a couple of pieces of the breaded chicken but I was able to stop). It felt very different than it had earlier this year when everything tempted me. I have no idea if I will continue to feel this way but really being deep into Keto does help with the temptation. You are still tempted but there is something that lets you stay in control. Will try to revisit this thread a month from now and see where I am!


(Alex) #24

Yes.

Fudge and cadbury’s egg and spoon things they sell at easter. I know these are emotional cravings. Fudge reminds me of family holidays and the egg things of when we used to get up early on easter sunday and have them for breakfast. I try to just call my parents more now instead of eating them!


#25

Yes. It helps to make sure I eat enough, but the cravings still surface constantly.


(bulkbiker) #26

I bet your parents are quite glad you’ve stopped eating them…!

:grin:


(Alex) #27

That’s what I get for commenting at 5 in the morning :rofl:


(PJ) #28

It used to. Before I understood how many of my medical symptoms were due to my reaction to grain proteins, I was very susceptible to wanting pasta, specifically tortellini, or sometimes crazy-bread from Little Caesars. When I got off grain proteins, I not only realized how much that shit hurts me totally aside from the carbs, but I gradually lost my craving for the addiction that wheat invokes in me. Once I was fully fat-adapted, I was far less likely to ‘want something carby’ anyway.

About the only time something affects me now is if I let myself get low on sodium. Then I find myself thinking “omg french fries!” or something. I’ve learned to recognize that, and go intake a decent amount of salt on some kind of food, and then it’s gone.


#29

No.


(Keith) #30

Yes - a good Indian curry without rice and a naan bread just isn’t right!


(Vic) #31

No.

not anymore


(Pete A) #32

No, although I sometimes daydream about how I used to overeat old favorites.


(Susan) #33

YES! Anyone that knows me here knows about my ongoing battle with cookies at work at 2 a.m.
Most days are good now, but every now and then…


(Laurie) #34

I saw 2 litre containers of eggnog at the supermarket. I thought maybe it wouldn’t hurt, especially if I mixed it with heavy cream (which I also don’t use any more, because I’m addicted).

I’ve played this game many times already – with various foods – and I know how it goes. So I walked on by.


#35

@islandlight

:raised_hands:t2: Congratulations on walking on by! :raised_hands:t2:


(Marianne) #36

There are certainly foods I remember loving, however, I am not tempted to go off keto. As long as I don’t take that first bite, I have total control.


(Ken) #37

Why would you have to give up a favorite carb food? Unless you believe religiously in Nutty Keto Dogma it’s merely an issue of eating them very, very infrequently.


(Allie) #38

Not for me.


(Jack Bennett) #39

“Infrequently” is the key. If you don’t want to expend the control or willpower to really make it infrequent then it may be better to avoid entirely. (See the “Abstainer vs Moderator” concept.)


(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #40

Because three dozen glazed doughnuts are barely enough, and I would start gaining weight, even if I were capable of limiting myself to only one dozen, that’s why. Given my druthers, I’d be eating six or seven dozen a day, and would weigh five or six hundred pounds. Hence, I gave up my favourite carb food.

Is there any chance of translating this into English? I don’t recognise these words . . . :grin: