I feel your pain. Iāve been there too. A few years ago I did Keto. Lost 20 pounds the first week, and another 20 by the end of the month. Yep, 40 pounds in one month. Everyone thought I was crazy, and how unhealthy this diet must be. None of them ever heard the word Keto before, let alone understand it is burned by your body better than sugar is. Its just sugar is easier to burn so your body will crave it. Especially me.
My personal sin, or vice if you will, is snacks. Chips, cookies, ice cream, candy bars. Too numerous to mention them all. All of them off limits while on Keto. So my first trip into Keto lasted maybe 3 months. Talk about back sliding. I fell off the wagon hard, then the wagon backed up and rolled over me a few times. I would go shopping, and almost every time it would include several LARGE bags of chips. The spicier the better. Tried all of the āFlamming Hotā varieties. Would eat one of those 20ish serving bags on the way home. Alternatively I would pick up a box of Little Debbie cakes. Thereās at least six double serving packs in each box. Whole box gone before getting home. Home is only 8 miles away too.
So after my Dx with Type 2 diabetes, I knew I just had to consider all of those carbs as pure poison. I couldnt think of them as anything edible. Took me a while. But every time I saw a snack food, I would just think poison. IT eventually worked, but it was tough.
I needed to find a replacement snack. I was going through snack withdrawals. I knew I might break in a moment of weakness if not careful. So I looked up Very low carb snacks. Almonds were first. But I would eat them until they were all gone. They too have a few carbs per hand full, and I was eating many hand fulls. One of the best things I found for my snack cravings was already mentioned, Pork Rinds, Chicharonnes, Cracklins. Low in proteins, high in fat, 0 carbs.
I look over the Sour Creams very carefully to find one that isnt low fat, and has less than 1 carb per serving. Iāll make a sourcream dip with that. And OOMPH! its a great snack. The crunchiness of the pork rinds take the place of the missing chips. Iāve also started adding Avocado to stretch that sourcream out, and add fat to it. This snack helps with a few things. It takes care of the physical need to be scacking, or munching on something crunchy, and the salt to replace what I lose on keto, as well as the potassium in the avocado. Iāve even gotten into adding cyan pepper powder into the mix to spice it up.
Ok, for this maybe someone else can correct me. But isnt bacon cured meat? Doesnt it have a very long refrigerated shelf life? I usually buy 2 or 3 packages at a time to last me through to the next big shopping day. I know eggs last a very long time too. My stepdaughter bought a 5 dozen box of eggs one day. It got moved under the seat in the car and went full on stealth mode for a week, until she asked me if I brought them in. I said, sorry, no clue what I brought in from the car a week ago. So I went and searched the car, found them, brought them in. Everyone was horrified as I took a couple out and fried them up. My thought was that baby chicks live in these shells for a month. They do ok. Even the non fertilized ones on the farm might sit with the chickens for a week or so before being gathered. And I remember when I lived in England that nobody there kept their eggs in the fridge, and they always did fine.
OK, so all of that verbosity about bacon and eggs to say STOCK UP! They wonāt (shouldnt) go bad. Just remember to keep them on your shopping list as a default to buy more, can never have too much of.
So if/when you screw up, and carb binge, you can get back on track with a little help from your bacon man, in his bacon house, and a few eggs.
Eventually on Keto you will get to a point where those cravings will subside, and be dismissed with a thought. If you do get them, try the salt trick, it works for me. Put a pinch of salt on your tongue, and let it dissolve there. Works for me every time (so far).
