Why am I so full on keto

#41

Fat and Protein satiate us much more than carbs do, many people also go a little wacky on the fat at first which will make it more noticeable.

#42

yea LOL be careful there, no adult likes to be ‘talked’ at…ask me how I know HAHA

(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #43

I came to keto from a diabetes perspective - life is SO much easier in terms of my T1 diabetes management.

It’s funny - I’m not sure I’d’ve ever ‘found’ keto if I didn’t have diabetes. I’m so so glad I did.

Mr S was always understanding of the fact I was reducing my carbs - and my insulin alongside - and I was so thrilled when after a long time of watching me eat keto he switched to most-of-the-time keto himself. Because it came from HIM - his choice, his lifestyle, his rules, his responsibility to himself, if you like.

#soproud (but not of the biscuits! :rofl:)

(Ellen) #44

I don’t go for a Sunday dinner often, but when I do I’ll have the yorkie, but no potatoes or veg, just the meat, gravy and yorkie, I can’t make them at home though as I’d end up making & eating loads, so they’re a very rare “treat” for me.

(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #45

Ooooooooooh I think I’ll try making a keto Yorkie one of these days, using blended chaffle batter! Eggs, butter, mozzarella, baking powder… ooooooh and cooked in beef dripping…

#onamission

(Ellen) #46

Please do and share the results!

#47

If I am still hungry, pork chops sound good but yeah, it’s probably true for many (and it’s not like I ever had a time when I ate pork often. I really hope I will). But I want desserts then. Not pizza. Even if I am quite satiated, I need my sweets on a carbier diet (I had that on keto too while I ate a significant amount of plants. Well, carby ones. Pure gluten and coconut oil is safe regarding this).

I knew this with people with a dessert stomach. We don’t want to eat “normal” food because we are quite satiated? Some desserts still go down very easily (and possibly a big amount of them)… I totally had that before I tried carnivore and was used to sweets every time (basically in the end of every day, long habit but I wasn’t very satiated either). Overeating on my old keto was possible due to chocolate and other not satiating but nice desserts (but the presence of too much carbs - vegetables, nuts in significant amounts - ensured almost no desserts were satiating to their full potential).

So it’s about carbs but protein and fat and personal satiation has a role too. Fat satiates many people well and some of us not so much, at least alone, with lots of protein. If I eat a full with very good macros, sweets have no power over me. Very developed dessert stomach, decades long past of eating sweets every day including all the time I did keto before… It doesn’t matter. It’s just about satiation in the end, it seems. And carbs mess with that. To what extent? It’s very individual. Sometimes not at all and sometimes one need to go extremely low to find a different and better world.
(Of course, some people eat way over even complete satiation, that’s quite tragic. But probably carbs have some important role in many such cases as well.)

#48

At least he tried. Oh, my SO tried too, it was one meal and he got so unwell he never tried again. Except when I managed to give him food that looks and somewhat feels like a carby one but isn’t (cake, cheesy muffin). He is aware of it as I am more honest than healthy especially with him - and his body behaved just fine. But it’s one meal now and then, the others are still carby.
He gave up bread (and gluten) for years and he still eats little of it despite he was the one eating bread with everything. He switched to rice instead, in place of bread and in place of most sweets as well. I needn’t worry about his protein intake considering the amount of rice, oat and legumes in his diet… :neutral_face: He’s a plasma donor and his protein level is stable, is that mean anything? But he eats animal protein too, just way less I ever did on any diet. Maybe it will change in the future, so much nice animal food to eat, I surely keep the variety high :D… He’s not against them and not that super attached to the carbs - well he is, very much but it’s just a necessity, he says because fat is tricky, he stays hungry and too full at the same time if he eats very much of it. Therefore, carbs. He needs his calories, after all. So even if we would really want a change (he definitely not at all and I would like it but don’t think it’s very important), it would be tricky. But I can still lower the carbs a little :slight_smile: A lot if I am willing to make sweets for every meal but I actually prefer other ways. Best if we eat the same dish but that rarely happens and he eats them with lots of carbs as my food is fatty protein. Maybe I will make my paleo pita again, I always dropped bread type things after a while, I never was into bread though they are useful once in a blue moon (and I found carnivore bread after a few days on carnivore so my interest totally disappeared. I love to made food I actually eat but as my own food barely takes time now, it may change).
So I saw someone who was seemingly addicted to bread give it up, it’s probably quite possible and not even super hard for many if they are determined… My SO wanted to try a gluten-free life. And we both did for some years and we felt exactly the same. It was enough for us to bring it back but it lost most of its importance and we still don’t use it when a gluten-free option works just as well. People tend to use wheat in everything.

#49

super congrats you are handling your health.

after we chatted on this I went grocery shopping. Got home to find out mother in law called hubby. Couldn’t breath. He got there and called 911 and she is at ER. Said congestive heart failure. Admitting her and getting tests scheduled etc.

I tell you straight out me and hubby were saying she is on a decline now and we see it, try to help her a bit to change but she flat out won’t do one thing to help herself and at this point this is where she just ended up. Decline. Getting worse and worse and now an ER stint with congestive heart failure.

Sad. Just so sad all of it.

(Rebecca 🌸 Frankenfluffy) #50

Oh @Fangs, what a terrible shock. Sending every good wish and a big meaty hug your way. :kissing_heart:

I know all too well how very painful it is to have a family member in a condition where keto would really really improve their life, but they can’t do it/won’t do it/don’t understand it/don’t recognise the potentially horrendous complications if they don’t make some changes.

We - Mr S and I, and you and your husband with your MIL - do our best and try our hardest, right? But it’s a tough, tough journey. Actually for us it’s not a journey yet - kind of stuck on the ‘Start’ line with our own family member.

:heart::heart::heart:

(Ellen) #51

Sending hugs.

(Susan) #52

I am sorry about your mother in law, Fangs, I hope that they will be able to help her and perhaps she will consider eating better after this, if you are lucky.

Take care =).

(Nalde ) #53

I hope I will get there one day too…
Keto day 8 and I am not sure I do things right.
I work in customer service and one of my customer came in and I didn’t recognised her, she lost 4 stones with keto.
So I decided to start and I scared I am doing something wrong…

(Susan) #54

Welcome to the forum, Nalde =).

If you go on the front page and click New Post -you can make your own thread, so more people will notice it --and you can ask any questions that you have and we will try and help you figure out what you are concerned about =).

(Keto Koala 🐨) #55

Welcome to the forums nalde. I’m a newbie too, day 19. :blush:. You will get lots of great advice on here. Just remember, there’s no such thing as a stupid question. :heart:

(Keto Koala 🐨) #56

Omg F, I’m so very sad and sorry. I’m going to add you in my blessings. Chin up beautiful :pray::heart: