What did I do!

(Janet Smith) #1

So I have been on vacation all last week… well staycation. Hubby was on afternoons so after the kids went to bed I nibbled … bad choices. Yesterday we decided to do an egg fast starting tomorrow… to get me…us back on track… so what did we to. After close to 4 months of keto with the odd slip up, we ate stupid taco bell AND had bbq pizza… oh lord I’m gonna pay for this so badly! The mental part is in full effect just waiting on the physical side :frowning:

(Nathan Toben) #2

A restrictive mentality can often lead to over indulgence but also heck, it was one night of your life. I am a binge eater tho so I am not trying to minimize the mental turmoil that losing control can bring someone. I hope the headspace settles soon. If I were to give advice, I would say eat “comfort keto” to get back on track, maybe not something as pigeon-holing as only eggs. There is plenty of time for going extreme once you feel back in a rhythm and make it through a work week and a weekend with a good keto routine ticking away.

(Amy Ramadan) #3

Don’t beat yourselves up. After all you are only human, and no one expects perfection 100% of the time!! Just take it at face value, and move on. Get back on track and don’t dwell on things you cannot change!!

(Stacy Blanchard) #4

Cue Frozen music…let it go🎼

#5

I’m really liking this advice and it might be my new go to strategy.

I went off the rails earlier this week, maybe 2 days this week of eating crap (not enjoying it- binge behavior). So my strategy was to eat whatever I wanted as long as it was keto (wanted is an odd word, I didn’t want much of it, I was still in binge mode). I visited various drive-thrus on 6 separate occasions throughout the day! I breakfast sandwich (no bun), 3 seperate burgers (no bun), then I broke and had a DQ blizzard (but threw half away - I was physically ill at that point). Then went to the gym and broke again and had 10 Mcnuggets at like midnight.

Funny thing is, next day I was able to do a 24 hour fast with ease (with coffee and cream - I wasn’t trying to be strict, I was just trying to make it to supper - then we had no supper till midnight, so I accidentally fasted). My desire for crappy food was just gone. Today I considered doing another fast (OMAD) but didn’t want to be restrictive so had some eggs and coffee. I agree that a restrictive mindset can cause over indulgance - at least for me.

I don’t know what my point is. That was pretty rambley. I guess that one day is one day, the important thing is finding a strategy that can get you back on the horse quickly and (mentally) painlessly. For me it’s an full permission to indulge in keto comfort or crap or whatever (even though it seems like I failed - I threw away half a blizzard people, that doesnt happen) followed by an easy transition back into normal keto and IF.

It takes me an extra day to get back on track, but the mental effort is minimal.

(Janet Smith) #6

Thanks for your advice and letting me know we are human and slip. I had been doing so well. I’m not a big snacker (keto) and then t just hit and I started. Today I have only had an egg and a few breakfast sausages. Not overly hungry. I’m drinking alot today too. I have 2 more nights till I go back to work so fingers crossed I can hold out with out the feeling of needing JUNK

(Nathan Toben) #7

you’re speaking my language @Mangusdog. I’m in the middle of a cheat day but actually trying doing so guilt and stress free for once. gosh we’ll see how that hold up though. I do think there is something to be said though about the psychological stress that guilt deals on us if we engage that line of thinking.

we do really well during such a majority of the time, it’s not that we deserve fast food and ice cream, its that yes, we are human, and deserve standards of self-worth that actually fit our current (not our ideal) behaviors.