I sort of snapped yesterday...

It happens... Like you say, today is a new day!

I had a bit of a different kind of blip in that I ate way more than I usually do as well as later in the evening than usual. Too much dairy and protein and bloods were up, but I'm also treating today as a new day so you've company there.

Bank Holidays can have a bad effect on me and I was mega tired yesterday for various reasons.

It proves you are human!



Soooo... what pre-emptive measures do you have in place for when/if the carb cravings strike today?
They usually get me about 24 hours after I ate the carbs, so I predict that around the same time today that you ate the kebab yesterday, you will start to get the munchies...

If that is the case, I would make sure you have a nice, filling, satisfying low carb something (big dinner? mug cake? bowl of berries and cream? favourite snack? low carb hot chocolate?) ready and waiting, to knock the sneaky little yearnings on the head.

Hooray! Someone else is human. So you fell off the strict diet but you have got back up again and having indulged you can perhaps anticipate and avoid the triggers or at least be aware of what is likely to happen.

Yes, definitely human. Well done for confessing on here, that's the big step to getting back on the wagon.
Most of us have done it at one time or another.

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I've been incredibly consistent on the low carb diet for over a month now (having had a couple of months previously of wavering a bit) but yesterday I snapped completely and ate a lot of everything I definitely cannot eat - chips, 4 krispy kreme doughnuts, a fishcake, almond croissant, chocolates, fizzy drink, more chips and a kebab. I don't know what got into me - it was very weird. It was just a blip but it was to say the least, bizarre, how I seemed to completely lose self control. Anyway, today is a new day and so far I'm back to normal.

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I have has blips - we are only human. Forgive move on to a new day

Like you, I have had a few days where I have slipped up. We are human.
I always admit when I have fallen off the wagon because I find it helpful to own up

I wonder - one of the things I take is a multivitamin and mineral tablet, not every day as I forget, but maybe four times a week. I have never had cravings or binges and I have been doing low carb as often as I could get away with it since the 1970s.
Dr Atkins advised it in his New Diet Revolution, and used specific minerals such as Chromium salts to treat carb cravings.

I take a magnesium supplement and when I ran out I chanced not taking it - sure enough after a few days the problem that pushed me to take it came back. I felt I had no energy at all and craved chocolate biscuits etc for a boost. I dunno if being diabetic or using insulin causes some kind of deficiency? About 3 months after I was diagnosed type 1 and used insulin I started getting very jittery with a racing heart and palpitations. Google mentioned magnesium and I took it. Much better. Slightly off topic I know but thought I'd share

What I would give for a jam doughnut.
Your crossed over and now your back.You sound very normal and very human.

Look on the bright side, fella: if you'd eaten any of those things with marmite, tuna or coal-dust on top, we'd all be diagnosing you as being pregnant!

Like the other posters have said, bit of a blip, which doesn't matter that much in the wider scheme of things.

NatJS said:

I've been incredibly consistent on the low carb diet for over a month now (having had a couple of months previously of wavering a bit) but yesterday I snapped completely and ate a lot of everything I definitely cannot eat - chips, 4 krispy kreme doughnuts, a fishcake, almond croissant, chocolates, fizzy drink, more chips and a kebab. I don't know what got into me - it was very weird. It was just a blip but it was to say the least, bizarre, how I seemed to completely lose self control. Anyway, today is a new day and so far I'm back to normal.

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Probably relieved a head of steam. You've admitted it, you know it didn't help but I bet it felt good.

When I was at work I fell in with some drinkers and lots of stories can be told and some of the daft things I did gave me feelings of guilt but it was forgotten the next day and everyone began anew.

So start over.

Bon83 said:

I take a magnesium supplement and when I ran out I chanced not taking it - sure enough after a few days the problem that pushed me to take it came back. I felt I had no energy at all and craved chocolate biscuits etc for a boost. I dunno if being diabetic or using insulin causes some kind of deficiency? About 3 months after I was diagnosed type 1 and used insulin I started getting very jittery with a racing heart and palpitations. Google mentioned magnesium and I took it. Much better. Slightly off topic I know but thought I'd share

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There are a number of nutrient deficiencies that are associated with diabetes. Magnesium is one. And interestingly, chocolate is a good source of magnesium. It's good that you're supplementing - (so long as you're not taking magnesium oxide which is poorly absorbed).

Since starting the low carb diet 2 years ago, I've taken 450 mg magnesium citrate a day - (150 mg with breakfast, 300 mg with dinner). During a recent visit to the emergency room for vertigo, my magnesium level was checked. I tested in the mid-range, so clearly, I'm not taking too much. Magnesium is required for hundreds of processes in the body, so it's a good one to supplement.

Life is a learning process. Although I do not wish diabetes on anyone, I have learned exponentially about others psychology and my own since my diagnosis. Your revelation got me thinking about what my "wagon" is, it turns out mine is a lack of sleep. I am lucky in that I see most carbs as the enemy now which almost took me away from my family, so have no issue avoiding them.
I am going to match you and resolve my issue,I am going to put the laptop down and go to bed.

Well done my bday was thus weekend and I said sod it yo diabetes what good is having 'control' when u can't push the barrier. That said the food I ate was pretty much eatwell from NHS so I didn't fall completely off the wagon and considering most don't even try to control their D I'd say the odd blip is fine just as long as ur numbers are in range. If you feel bad go for a walk

NatJS said:

I've been incredibly consistent on the low carb diet for over a month now (having had a couple of months previously of wavering a bit) but yesterday I snapped completely and ate a lot of everything I definitely cannot eat - chips, 4 krispy kreme doughnuts, a fishcake, almond croissant, chocolates, fizzy drink, more chips and a kebab. I don't know what got into me - it was very weird. It was just a blip but it was to say the least, bizarre, how I seemed to completely lose self control. Anyway, today is a new day and so far I'm back to normal.

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Hi, don't worry about it, I have been on LCHF diet for 38 weeks, out of all the things I ate previously, the only thing I missed was chips. I record everything I eat by carbs, protien, fat and fibre and calories. in 38 weeks my average daily Calories are 1191 and my average daily carbs 27. I have lost 3stone 9 pound in weight my blood glucose is down from 10 to low 5s and my HBA1C down from 55 (Very high) to 38 (Normal). Even so, once a month I close my book and have the biggest plate of chips I can manage, my Blood Glucose shoots up to 12 for a short period but soon comes down again, this last time which was actualy 5 weeks ago made me realise it is the TEXTURE of the chips I miss, not the taste. It keeps me satisfied for a month and it is actually getting that because I know I can have them (cos I said so) I am losing the need for them, like I said it has been 5 weeks since my last lot. My advice is to hold off as long as you can but have an indulgence now and then but not too often else all you are doing is wasting your time. Hope this helps. Those nutrition 'Experts' who said cooking potatoes then letting them go cold then reheating them makes the starch into digestable fibre are wrong. I tried it and my blood glucose level shot from low 5s to mid 12s. Statements are not facts until proven.

@skiggy I think you need to eat the potatoes cold, not reheated, but I haven't tested it. Potato salad anyone?

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@skiggy I think you need to eat the potatoes cold, not reheated, but I haven't tested it. Potato salad anyone?

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@Winnie53, no, just googled it again and it definatley quotes reheating starchy foods (chips),turns the starch into undigestable starch (Fibre type) but I will try it again just to be bloody minded

4 krispy kreme doughnuts and a kebab??? Say ten "Hail Mary's" and you're forgiven.