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Im Rubbish bt2

HEP said:
I'm a rubbish diabetic t2. I find I'm really good with my carbs for days eating enough protien and veg to fill me, then one day I wake up and all I want is everything I shouldn't. Anyone else like this and what can I do to stop it.
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There are foods I could murder plate fulls of. Doesn't mean that I do. Sometimes I'll have a nibble just for the flavour and texture of something though. (I have an accomodating husband, I steal a bit from his goodies every now and again.) Consider that: could it be enough to have a LITTLE bit of something, just to get the craving to shut up? Some can, some can't, but I've found it helps to sometimes just not be so.... Hardcore Keto.

Figure out a way for you to keep this up. Would little bits every now and again help, or giving yourself cheat days? I wouldn't recommend those, but if it's what works for you, to be able to keep it all up the rest of the time, so be it.
 
Hi @HEP and welcome to the forum.
As Jo says, most if not all of us suffer from this carb craving at least now and then. There is no advice that works for everybody because we are all different, so you need to know yourself and use your own strengths to combat it.

Personally what do is a from of cold turkey. I don't (every) eat high carb food, instead I will stuff myself to the gills with something I like which is low/no carb.
That works for me, but only for me! How others react is down to their own unique tastes and personalities!
 
I’m 14 years in and still crave carbs at least 3 times a week, I usually find having a salty low carb bite of something helps them pass, something like a few salted nuts, pork scratchings or a bit of strong cheese, a teaspoon of peanut butter. I don’t really crave sweet stuff as I don’t have a sweet tooth it’s usually savoury I crave.

If I’m at home I sometimes go and clean my teeth, seems to work as anything you eat after cleaning your teeth tastes yuck and I like the clean feel in my mouth.

If it’s sweet stuff you crave there are lots of recipes on the net for low carb and keto cakes and puddings, some simple to make. Google keto mug cake and you’ll get lots of great recipes that can be made in 90 seconds in the microwave
 
100% YES. My downfalls are Bread & Pastry. Can do really well for ages, then I just have to have some, I've tried low carb alternatives, eating something else, cleaning my teeth, not having it in the house, It doesn't matter what I do the little voice inside my head just doesn't shut up until I've fed it the "forbidden" food. Once I've given in, I feel (physically) rubbish. Then I have to heave myself back on the wagon asap, so I don't fall down the F it hole. The time between binges IS getting longer, and the binges shorter, just don't give up giving up
 
Those of us who just cater for one can dodge temptation by simply not buying unsuitable food and keeping away from places that serve it, but it's tougher if (as with me) there are other family members who like the stuff that's poison to us. Not to mention (but I'm just about to) all those people in our lives who nag and try push us into eating something we shouldn't have. Only yesterday, someone who very much ought to know better came round with one of my erstwhile favourite cakes - a huge Victoria sponge filled with homemade jam! So Mr. O. was under instruction to hide it in a tin IMMEDIATELY. He's good about that. He eats a lot of food that I mustn't, but has the grace to secure it out of sight. I'm not saying I would or wouldn't eat it, but it saves a lot of willpower.

As for what keeps me on the straight and narrow - we buy lots of delicious diabetic-friendly food I can eat, so why would I hanker after stuff that'll injure me?
 
Yes I also used to get binges of forbidden foods, especially when really stressed.
After watching several online video's of both Dr. Jason Fung and Dr Jamnadas I have suddenly seen th light!
It's been a long time now since I was tempted by all the foods that will harm my health
 
Outlier said:
Not to mention (but I'm just about to) all those people in our lives who nag and try push us into eating something we shouldn't have. Only yesterday, someone who very much ought to know better came round with one of my erstwhile favourite cakes - a huge Victoria sponge filled with homemade jam!
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Yes, I suspect most of us have been on the receiving end every once in a while. Once diagnosed in 2003, a close relative (no longer with us) was forever plying me with cakes and jam tarts, or so it seemed.

What prompts this behaviour I wonder? I can't relate to it myself. If we knew a family member or friend was trying to follow a medical diet of some kind, it's the very last thing we'd do.
 
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Outlier said:
As for what keeps me on the straight and narrow - we buy lots of delicious diabetic-friendly food I can eat, so why would I hanker after stuff that'll injure me?
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Same here. It helps to focus on the many delicious foods we can safely eat, and not dwell too much on those few that we really shouldn't have.

I really enjoy my meals, it must be said, and seldom feel the need to deviate from my LCHF lifestyle, but then I've had 20 years practice!
 
You could perhaps be short of something essential and the 'eat everything' impulse is a ploy to try to get whatever it is.
I find that my control is better now I am consciously adding more salt to my diet. I have eaten far fewer berries than had become normal, fewer veges more eggs, meat and fish, less yoghurt. Those last alterations were not conscious, but I am not following a strict rota of meals, and if I find that I have wasted some food by letting it go considerably past the use by date, I don't buy it for a while, and sometimes just don't buy it again. My spending on food has reduced quite a bit in the last year.
 
If its not in my kitchen cupboard I dont crave it. The only time I crave is if hubby has been a sneek and hidden something and he has mentioned it, then I crave it and will hunt it down till I find it! Its bizarre. Its an addiction. I don't get the same with cigarettes at all. But the sugar addiction wow, guess its like nicotine receptors but sugar receptors.
 
I find using a libre occasionally and seeing the graphs of spikes from when I do eat something bad for me helps me visualise the damage I am doing to myself. Its easier to say no to something so graphic, for me
 
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