Why am I so full on keto

(Keto Koala 🐨) #21

Yeah it’s amazing how carbs trick the body. I never knew before. I couldn’t even imagine eating a sugary dessert now. I think I would feel sick.

#22

oh boy I can relate to that mentality :slight_smile:
get your money’s worth and more…ugh LOL

I hit a breakfast buffet on vacation and my plate…omg, it was loaded with bacon and link sausage and a tiny bit of egg, I can’t even imagine what people thought when they saw me loading up my plate!

I must say I went all day til late in the evening for dinner…I love how a ‘hearty’ breakfast holds me!

(Keto Koala 🐨) #23

God that make me laugh F :joy::joy::joy:.

#24

On vacation a couple of years ago I was on a cruise and decided to cheat. I had a milkshake of all things, haven’t had one in years. Slowly over the course of an hour, my stomach felt bloated and got to the point where it felt as if it was going to explode. I was so uncomfortable and eventually had to… get it out of my system.

I don’t cheat so much anymore :slight_smile:

#25

oh boy yes I get this.

I now tell my hubby when he says, oh come on have some of this, we are on vacation, indulge a bit……….I say… and where is the nearest hospital?

I swear now that I think very hard and a gazillion times before I even think about possibly eating crap. I have been carnivore for so long now that if I eat some bad stuff, I swear I might end up in the ER. I know as I tried some bites of this or that thru the years, I got instant bad icky tummy troubles so fast it was scary truly. Now it just shows me that what I decide to eat is gonna either take me down for an ER visit or if I stay on plan I thrive LOL

scary when one thinks food is gonna send ya to the ER real sick :slight_smile: hey that works for me tho, keeps me off the crap now HA

(Keto Koala 🐨) #26

My partner does it to me too :joy:. It’s only been two weeks and 4 days but I can’t even imagine eating or drinking sugar now. Even the fruit in the stores that I used to love, now I just feel sick Looking at it all. I cook my keto meals for my partner too, BUT she’s also eating things like chocolate yogo with Mnms and 4 spoon fills of sugar in one coffee. She is always tired probably from the insulin crashes ect. I agree, stuff going to the ER. :joy:

(Keto Koala 🐨) #27

Lol, I hear ya!! My tummy churns just looking at fruit now. And I passed the cordial section the other day and that is something I loved as a kid. I actually used to think that crap was healthy cos of the fruit picture on the front :joy:. It’s just Sugar and preservatives. Complete and utter junk. How can they even sell that shit!!

#28

I’ll tell ya what gets harder.

Is leaving the other person behind. It sucks rocks.

My hubby is a carb eater. Like when out camping, I grill steaks, chicken and then I eat only that. Hubby and kid will do some grilled crispy bread, grill up some roasted corn on the cob and inside, in a pot will make some rice or something.

About 20 mins. after I am ready to kayak or swim or take a hike.
He can’t move. Literally. He is on the lounge chair, sitting at the campsite in a carb coma.

I get pissed. I want to move move move and he slugs out. I tell ya some days I wanna just shoot him for eating so crappy but…being an adult I can’t control him but in the end, I see this happening a lot more and it irks the heck out of me.

So now I do things alone a lot and that irks me too HA I want him there since he is my best friend and we have fun, can’t make him do it tho so off I go alone for a sunset type kayak adventure, come back and still got energy and he is still slugged under the camper awning darn near snoring. ugh

I don’t know…I just go with it all and will see where it all lands I guess

(Keto Koala 🐨) #29

I totally get it. My partner sleeps many more hours than I do yet is always yawning and tired. She drinks about 8 coffees a day and puts 4 sugars in each cup!! Like F##k!! Even before keto I would be sick if I had that much sugar. It’s 11.30 pm and she can’t sleep but she’s having another coffee. Being 18 years older than me I do worry. And I wonder is it bad for me to be feeding her keto food if she’s eating carbs and sugar too?? It’s sad cos as I get my energy she seems to be more tired :pensive:

(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #30

Mr S eats the same as me at home, has done since September. And he’ll take a keto lunch to work, too.

But sometimes he’ll have carbs if we’re out. Not always. Every now and again. Just now he popped into the workshop where there were three biscuits left that this morning’s students brought. He ate the biscuits while we were chatting.

In about two hours’ time, he will likely settle himself down on the sofa for a Saturday afternoon snooze. He will say ‘it’s because I had carbs’. And we shall both laugh!

That lovely man cracks me up. He’s doing so well on keto - he doesn’t get hungry, he’s lost the weight he wanted to, and he’s got so much more energy and loves what we eat. But then: biscuits…

I think I’ll be going for my Saturday afternoon walk on my own! Because carbs…!

(Keto Koala 🐨) #31

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:joy::joy::joy:. And all our lives we were told that carbs give us energy!! I have no energy right now buts it’s not because carbs, it’s because I got three hours sleep last night and have been awake for many many hours. Praying for at least 5 or 6 tonight. Glad your partner loves keto too. I wish my darling would, just don’t know how to stop that sugar addiction. Hmmm :flushed:

#32

LOL love it
hey you guys are lucky tho you eat the same. my hubby tried LC and stuck a little but he is one of those ‘I can’t give up my bread’ and he won’t. I just never see him going here truly with me. I definitely see me leaving him behind in a lot of the adventures I want to do but I will…told him just that…lol

Great post, glad you guys are doing well!!

#33

ahhh, yea you can’t do it for them. no one can. everyone has to make that true total commitment for change for themselves. we can put a bug in their ear and hope they hear a bit, but after that, it boils down to it is what it is cause I gotta say I got on hubby a bit tough thru it all and he got pizzed so I had to drop it eventually LOL I mean…haha…at some point it all falls as it does and all we can do is have our feelings about it all and just let it happen I guess

(Keto Koala 🐨) #34

Oh my god I KNOW!! We can’t force them to do anything they don’t wanna do. My partner smokes :pensive:. I lose sleep at night worrying. She’s turning 50 this year. I can’t let her be a smoker at 50. I try to ask her, I try to lecture her and she gets upset like I’m yelling at her. I’m not I just care. I told her to at least cut down to 6 a day, then 5 the next week, then 4 and so on. It worked for awhile. Not giving up though. I’m determined. If a smoke ad comes on tellie i change the channel. Don’t wanna hear about it, just can’t deal. I will keep setting a good example. I love her, she’s my best friend and has shown me love that I could never imagine. I got her back. Maybe one day she’ll do keto. She can see the benefits from me.

(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #35

I was SO amazed. He started by asking me one morning ‘what could I take for lunch that’s like a roll but doesn’t have carbs?’.

(We’d been having the same breakfast and evening meal as each other for ages - but he always took a filled roll to work, or would grab a pasta salad from a service station if he was out on a job.)

I started making keto rolls, and now if he wants a sandwich I’ll make chaffles as the sandwich bread. At the moment we both take keto soup to work, because it’s so cold.

It’s lovely that we eat the same stuff. If we go out for a family Sunday lunch though, he’ll usually have the whole roast potatoes/parsnips/Yorkshire pud combo and then sleep for the rest of the day! But at least he has awareness of why he crashes out like that. And he’ll laugh about it - and then get back to keto.

#36

If you haven’t already, have your partner watch The Magic Pill. It’s a documentary on Netflix. It showed the drastic improvements in families, especially kids that were carb addicted and are now on Keto. It helped inspire me.

(Keto Koala 🐨) #37

I unfortunately don’t have Netflix. I know, so behind the times. I’m sure she’ll be ok. She is starting to love the keto food I cook for us both. Perhaps that will steer her towards going Keto. Xx

#38

hey it is great he asked for advice on how to change it up for himself. my hubby won’t do that. I remember he made steak and eggs for dinner and said, hey look, no bread this meal and than later he ate a mug of ice cream cause he was good at dinner with no bread. Oh my I wanted to say…but I didn’t. Right now he doesn’t have it in him but his mom is fighting big med situations cause of her diabetes and I tell him that is SUGAR and with circulatory troubles and more I hope he starts to put it all together and bothers to do something about it…but again, I tried, I am over it mostly. I just let it go down and hope that little bit of info from somewhere plants in his brain and he gets it HAHA

It is fab your hubby can go off plan a bit and get back on. I wish I had that in me but I am not one of those. I got food/diet/eating baggage and it won’t let me go there. I so wish I could be one of those, enjoy a bit of this or that and then go straight back on plan. Your hubby is one of those lucky ones I think LOL

#39

that is true, cook the keto food, enjoy it together and just thru change from you, you could be making her change a bit more. ya never know…keep rocking it out and as you feel better and she sees that, then hey, she might jump on board a bit more. Only good stuff I see for you guys actually, I think ya’ll will find a good place thru this journey.

(Keto Koala 🐨) #40

Thanks F. I’m sure she will. Since I been keto I noticed that her junk food supply is getting a bit less. At the end of the day it’s her decision. I sometimes forget our 18 year gap and baby her and I don’t mean to. I think I’ll stop nagging and let her work it out for herself. She is a lot stronger than she thinks. It’s in there somewhere. Bless her. Bless you and your Hubby too :blush::heart: