What food caused you to loose the most control pre KETO?

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(Jack Bennett) #21

Smartfood white cheddar popcorn
Premium ice cream (Haagen Dazs, Ben & Jerry’s)
York peppermint patties
Thai food
Costco-sized anything of junk food

(Scott) #22

I am very good at controlling food. At my son’s wedding I ate one bite of cake just to be able to say I had some (and no one asked). At the Mexican restaurant they can set the basket of chips down and I won’t touch them. So what food causes me to lose control, that would be craft beer.

(Jenn) #23

Bagels
garlic bread
mac n cheese

I would also order an extra burger, fries or sandwich anytime we got fast food because I was always thought the actual meal would never be enough to fill me up.

Definite carb addiction in my past.

(traci simpson) #24

How many would you eat at one time?

(bulkbiker) #25

Bread in any form.

(traci simpson) #26

I do miss warm bread with butter or EVOO and TOAST.

(Natasha) #27

This is me!

I was just thinking today that although I sometimes wish I was losing weight at a faster rate, I can’t believe that what I have lost (100lbs) has all been while eating sooo well and without needing to starve myself, which is the only way I could lose before and of course we know how that story ends because eventually I’d need to eat and… yup, (carb) food was my trigger, once I’d start there was almost no stopping!

(bulkbiker) #28

Triggers my food addiction problems even keto stuff with a bread like consistency… that’s why I prefer meat only… no triggers at all…

(traci simpson) #29

I don’t like KETO breads and muffins.

(K-9 Handler/Trainer, PSD/EP Specialist, Veteran) #30

Pasta. Saimin. French Fries.

#31

Carbs made me hungry so those were bad news in general. Trust me, I could do high-carb on low-carb vegetables alone if I was in the mood. But it wasn’t losing control, I just ate because I liked the food and I was hungry.

I have very few trigger foods. A surprising one is bread. I never was into bread and didn’t eat it for years with easy (I had gluten free years). But it’s still irresistible sometimes, very very rarely but it happens. In my past I ate 500g in one sitting (with butter and possibly with honey too) quite a few times and it did absolutely nothing to my satiation (well if I was satiated before, I surely was hungry afterwards so it could make things worse) so I had to eat some normal food too.
Bread and butter is just such a wonderful combo… But my body thinks I ate nothing.

Another one is dried dates. It’s not logical, again. It’s mostly just sugar and I dislike sugar (I love sweets and other sweet things, there’s a big difference). BUT it has that distinc date flavor! And anyway, compulsions work in strange ways. It was exotic too as I almost never bought dates, I preferred tastier, juicy fruits and I usually want some sourness. Once (I went low-carb years before) I bought 500g dried dates for some strange reasons. I did my best to eat a little. I ate it all in 2 hours I guess but it means I put up a good fight :D. I never eat low-fat food except fruits but those usually make me hungry so even those are rarely alone but it they are, the amount is massive (and I get hungry soon, of course, it doesn’t matter I consumed my energy need already, carb calories don’t count , in the contrary, they definitely had a negative number in my ancient past. I just could use the energy or store a little bit as fat. But I stayed/became hungry.)

Handmade cakes, the type I like but can’t do low-carb (I only do low-carb cakes and gingerbread. I learned to bake after I went low-carb, cooking was easy, I started as a child). My favs are soft and creamy or has lots of walnuts, sometimes honey, lots of chocolate never hurts (typical chocolate cake is awful, too fatty). Caramel is amazing too. But if there is a selection of 20 different cakes… Oh my.
As I met handmade cakes (except my own ones, I bake cake several times per week) only a few times a year and I quit keto way more often and my body is forgiving enough, I never even tried to resist, not like I had a chance. I never had regrets and I was able to eat 20 pieces of cake easily a few hours after a satiating, very low-carb 2000 kcal lunch. More if they were small or not FULL with walnuts, that’s satiating but my fav kind :smiley:
A good chocolate cake is great diet food though. Even my Sachertorte and it has apricot jam in it (not bad with raspberries either but the traditional fruit is the best. or plum but that’s sugary too). But it can’t ruin a good keto day even in a nice amount (630 kcal so not very much but it’s filling as the final course of a good lunch).

I don’t think I was carb addicted. I am joy addicted and if I start to eat, I must get satiated. It’s an extremely hard and long process if much carbs are involved. Not like I couldn’t eat much cake after I get satiated, my dessert stomach has skills. But if I am full, I stop (except in extremely unusual circumstances). If I am not, I don’t have very much more control on keto… It’s better but it seems plants interfere. Almost carnivore seemed to do the trick this far but it’s too new to get too hopeful.

I got carried away but of course, my trigger food is amazing, obviously. My keto food is amazing too.

Oh I almost forgot! CHOCOLATE, my love :smiley: I don’t know how I will survive my carnivore trial, I guess with meat, that’s more exotic, I eat chocolate nearly every day since several years and meat only a few times per year until recently. And I totally love both.
Chocolate is very fatty (at least mine) so I can’t eat a huge amount of it but 50g every day is easy. Keto stopped this but it comes back sometimes. But I am in control, I just like chocolate and why not to eat it now and then in bigger amounts? Good way to raise my fat intake, sadly, I need the opposite, usually.

Chips are nice but as I need to make them myself and that’s messy, they aren’t dangerous.

My (kind of) keto trigger foods were carby, obviously, I am like that…

Fried cauliflower. My 40g net carbs limit had little chance so I banned it in the beginning of my keto. It came back in small amounts later when I learned to eat so insanely little vegetables.
Roasted, salted peanuts. I ate it every day for years (except when I wasn’t at home or I run out of it but I did my best not to, it’s a very important staple in my household) so I learned to go crazy only sometimes, not each and every meal… I depended on them when I did OMAD and couldn’t eat enough (yep, it wasn’t the best idea then but I had to try, I ate way too much on TMAD).
I dislike peanut butter though.

I am quite safe on almost carnivore. The food is very, very satiating to me without the plants. I don’t even feel temptation, I am so satiated.

#32

The same.
What’s more, I am more talented than that. I’ve read so many times “problems with sweets? don’t buy any!”. Well I can make a huge jar of chocolate in a few minutes. I can bake a simple cake in a few minutes. And we shouldn’t forget not everyone is living alone (but I totally respect other people’s sweets as everyone should I think).

(Todd Batitis) #33

This has been the one thing that gets me now. I do daily 20:4 IF in addition to eating keto and I can have a cheat day and pig out at an Asian buffet or something every couple months and not have it be an issue. I eat a lot of the things I don’t normally eat and enjoy them and make that 6,000 calorie/286g carb lunch my one meal for the day and get right back on track the next day without a problem.

There have been a time or two though at things like company pot lucks where I went in just going to eat a few of the keto things I brought (smoked salmon & cream cheese stuffed mini peppers) and other things that might fit but then decided to have a special cookie or brownie or the like. It isn’t that I had a problem with it overall as far as “I shouldn’t have this” so much as there have been a time or two where I just felt completely off the rails with regards to some of the sweets and carby stuff when I hadn’t planned for it.

It is different when you plan a cheat day and do what you expected. It is different if it feels like you lost control. :slight_smile:

#34

Totally. My thoughts/emotions/obsessions about food eventually changed after sticking with the new habits for 3 or 4 years. Total freedom from the old me nowadays! Freedom from the obsessive thoughts, cravings, eating all the time, etc.

(Jenn) #35

I would sometimes order 2, carbs really had a hold on my food brain.

(Will knit for bacon. ) #36

Cheese pizza. The more cheese, the better. And I would eat an entire large one by myself.

I make a pretty good keto pizza casserole thing in my cast iron skillet but sometimes I’ve had a bad day and I just want to have someone bring me a pizza.

(Tony ) #37

Used to drink heaps ( 1/2 gal ) orange juice in one day, Coke and Pepsi - full sugar varieties, potato chips, chocolate - whole big bars at a time, fruit jelly candies / lollies / sweets… It makes me cringe now !!!

(Liz Ellen) #38

I started with candy binges when I was a kid. My friends and I would walk to a swim club and buy lots of cheap candy like Red Vines and Lemonheads and sit on the softball field until we had a pile of wrappers and sore bellies. (So much for my parents’ hope that we were out exercising!) Halloween and Easter were high holy days for me because of the abundance of chocolate. In my teens, I started eating lots of fast food once I could drive. I often bought two whoppers from Burger King after school and would devour them. Again, I ate until my stomach hurt. Because I was eating in secret, I would force myself to eat dinner with my family even though I was still full. In my 20s, my preferred binge was ice cream. I would consume a half gallon at a time. I think I was developing insulin resistance by this time because I would eat until I began to feel sleepy and drifted into a carb coma. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I worked food into my career and became a food writer in my 30s. In that job, food manufacturers sent me all kinds of products for me to review, and chefs invited me to try their restaurants. It was the perfect job for someone obsessed with food. I got paid to eat it, to think about it and to talk about it. What food caused me to lose control? Whatever was really sweet or really salty and cheap. When I had more money and when the free food came in, it just became about what was most palatable. I wanted it to be cold, or hot, or creamy, or crispy. I liked spicy food. I liked sour flavors. I liked fancy food, and I liked ramen noodles. In short, the food that caused me to lose control was all of it.

(charlie3) #39

In my last job it was the custom that somehow donuts, cookies, etc. appeared constantly and I was vulnerable. I managed to mostly put a stop to that starting keto and exercise 20 months ago. Since then I’ve given in to occaisional temptations, none too serious or long lasting. Cheese and nuts are off the shopping list, too snackworthy. Bacon is gone too.

There has been some pudge creep. I’m satisfied with how I look at 13% body fat but not thrilled. There is something new and promising. Recently my low/moderate cardio is 2x1 hour sessions daily on an Airdyne at 70% of age adjusted max heart rate. That’s not particularly intense. It’s barely fatiguing but burns over 1,000 calories. It has become challenging to eat my total daily calories so most nights I’m going to bed very full but with a 200-300 calorie deficit. It would be nice if things stay that way.

#40

For me it was cheese! Oh the irony. The thing is, it was never really the cheese. It was that the cheese needed a helper – crusty bread and olive oil, crackers, nacho chips, etc. Remove those and cheese and I can be friends!