Lo Carbers, help a fat brutha out...

Everytime I try to go lo carb, I last about a day and a half to two days before I go into a full on Carb feeding frenzy.

Does anyone have any tips for dealing with this?

I've done both Atkins and SB with the same result.

Thanks in advance,

  Bill

Bill, that yuck, gotta gotta get me some carbs, feeling is part of detox.  It sounds like you have a serious carb addiction going on there!  Think about it, your insulin levels are very high from alla that processed junk, and until you get it out of your system and level off, you're going to feel just a 'li'l' off.   The best way to get past it is to know it's coming and then brace yourself for all hell to break lose!  Start by eating as much as you feel like you need to eat.  You don't get extra points for being hungry on low carb.  Next, drink plenty of water to flush the junk out.  Once you start burning fat for fuel, lots of water will help flush the fat out, too. 

Eat lots of pure protein for energy.  I keep boiled eggs handy at all times.  They're easy to throw into a tuna salad with mayo and dill pickle relish.  I eat that on pork rinds or celery sticks.  Keep meat, fish and poultry handy just to throw into some olive oil or butter and saute' with some onions and peppers.  Know how many carbs are in salad fixings that you like and you can eat two big salads a day or save your vegetables for cooking with or eating a side dish.  Make sure that you get 12 to 15 carbs a day from veggies on Induction.  Ken's Steakhouse makes a carb free creamy Ceasars salad dressing that is to die for, or you can use olive oil and garlic wine vinegar for a dressing. 

Do you know how to cook?  It is so important that you are able to cook your own meals so you know the exact ingredients.  Processed convenience food is not conducive to low carb.  If you must eat at a fast food joint, order burgers or chicken breasts with no bun, but alla the fixings.  Other than that, at nice restaurants you can eat salad with vinegar and oil and any kind of steak, fish or fowl, that is broiled, boiled or baked.  If they have king crabs, you can have that in drawn butter...that's my favorite!

Mostly, you have to be mindful of hidden sugars in processed foods.  As long as you know exactly what you are putting in your mouth, you should do fine.  To get passed the head games, try spending time on www.atkins.com and take the free online classes or go on the forum and see how others are coping with the same things that you are.  Trust me, if you do this the right way, it will get easier.  There does come a time when you aren't hungry and you aren't thinking about carbs all the time.  Let me know if you have anymore questions,

Mary

    

Thanks Mary!

If you're talking induction-level, less than 20 carbs a day...make sure you eat enough - to satisfaction, whatever that looks like for you. It may be waaaay more calories than you might normally eat, but remember you are not on a low cal plan. You are trying for ketosis.

Eat plenty of fat. Read labels, no sugar at all in dressings.

If you are just talking about eating less than 100 carbs a day...I would do induction for three days, then ease into a higher level. If you fall down after that, gently but firmly pick thyself, dust thyself off...start all over again.

Past that, as a Pro Yo-Yo Ho, I just muscle thru the first three days of any plan - against my will, perhaps, but I get through it by sheer determination. Usually I am okay after that.

Good luck, Bro!