I struggled to give up bread for so many reasons - it’s so darned convenient for conveying tasty food into the mouth, it can be delicious, it makes toast etc etc. I loved the stuff and it was often the basis of my weekend breakfasts, whereby I made myself a posh Latte and some toast with home-made bread and lots of butter and lounged around on the sofa indulging in that not-working feeling. My weekend breakfasts are a really important part of my life, psychologicallly-speaking.
But.... bread was impossible for me, it caused horrendous spikes. As did milk, so no more lattes for a while until I started frothing diluted double cream instead. So, after trying all the keto and low-carb alternatives, I just gave up and made peace with the fact that bread was gone forever. You really do adapt and fill the void with other things, and for me, yes - the carb cravings are mostly gone now. My motivation for keeping my BG as low as possible is very strong - I suffered the blurred vision thing for at least 6 weeks at diagnosis and couldn’t drive for 2 or 3 weeks. This was enough of a taster of impaired vision to impress on me that I really didn’t want to go that way if I could avoid it. But it’s still hard to stop eating food you love.
I often make keto scones for my weekend breakfast, they sort of hit the same spot in my psyche. And today I had boiled eggs with lovely bacon ‘soldiers’ to dip, and I have a keto chocolate cake cooling for a second breakfast, hobbit-style.
So there is light at the end of the tunnel!