What are the effects of cheating?

It's time in your life to start creating new traditions.

Potatoes don't have to be a part of your new traditions.

Learn from this experience.

Jennifer


Gary wrote:

I fasted on Yom Kippur (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown). So for
dinner Saturday night I broke the fast with several dishes I have
become accustomed to using for this purpose.

Most of the dishes were fine on the South Beach Diet, but one
consisted of boiled potatoes topped with (low-fat) sour cream. I
didn't want to skip the dish, as it has become "traditional" for me.

So my question relates to the physiological effects of eating these
potatoes, the first ones I've had since last December. My
understanding is that eating the potatoes causes a spike in blood
sugar, leading to hunger (appetite).

How long does this hunger last? Assuming I did not overeat after my
break-fast (it was a large meal), have I done myself any harm?

It's time in your life to start creating new traditions.

Potatoes don't have to be a part of your new traditions.

Learn from this experience.

Jennifer


Gary wrote:

I fasted on Yom Kippur (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown). So for
dinner Saturday night I broke the fast with several dishes I have
become accustomed to using for this purpose.

Most of the dishes were fine on the South Beach Diet, but one
consisted of boiled potatoes topped with (low-fat) sour cream. I
didn't want to skip the dish, as it has become "traditional" for me.

So my question relates to the physiological effects of eating these
potatoes, the first ones I've had since last December. My
understanding is that eating the potatoes causes a spike in blood
sugar, leading to hunger (appetite).

How long does this hunger last? Assuming I did not overeat after my
break-fast (it was a large meal), have I done myself any harm?

Oh, for heaven's sake, potatoes once a year isn't going to harm you! It's
attitudes like this that make people think we are fanatics.

In ,
Jennifer stated
| It's time in your life to start creating new traditions.
|
| Potatoes don't have to be a part of your new traditions.
|
| Learn from this experience.
|
| Jennifer
|
|

Oh, for heaven's sake, potatoes once a year isn't going to harm you! It's
attitudes like this that make people think we are fanatics.

In ,
Jennifer stated
| It's time in your life to start creating new traditions.
|
| Potatoes don't have to be a part of your new traditions.
|
| Learn from this experience.
|
| Jennifer
|
|

No... they won't kill you.

But why not create new food traditions?

What's the real need for potatoes at Yom Kippur?

Every month has it's holidays and traditions. If it truly were once a
year...

Jennifer


FOB wrote:

Oh, for heaven's sake, potatoes once a year isn't going to harm you! It's
attitudes like this that make people think we are fanatics.

In ,
Jennifer stated
| It's time in your life to start creating new traditions.
|
| Potatoes don't have to be a part of your new traditions.
|
| Learn from this experience.
|
| Jennifer
|
|

No... they won't kill you.

But why not create new food traditions?

What's the real need for potatoes at Yom Kippur?

Every month has it's holidays and traditions. If it truly were once a
year...

Jennifer


FOB wrote:

Oh, for heaven's sake, potatoes once a year isn't going to harm you! It's
attitudes like this that make people think we are fanatics.

In ,
Jennifer stated
| It's time in your life to start creating new traditions.
|
| Potatoes don't have to be a part of your new traditions.
|
| Learn from this experience.
|
| Jennifer
|
|

I've written up my own observations about going off plan he
http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/offplan.htm

After many years of low carbing, I'm convinced that learning how to go off
plan and then back on plan is essential for anyone who intends to control
their weight for life. In reality most of us will oscillate back and forth
between careful control and sloppier control as the years go by. If we let
our off plan phases last a few days or weeks and learn how to recover, we
may gain a pound or two and move on.

If we don't learn how to deal with a dietary lapse, we may join the many
people who post here who lose as many as 100 lbs, do great for a few years,
and then after some lapse or strain gain it all back and more.

So treat your day or two off going off plan as a helpful educational
opportunity, not a moral lapse, and learn how your body responds to a change
in carbs.
-- Jenny - Low Carbing for 5 years. Below goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes,
hba1c 5.7 .
Cut the carbs to respond to my email address!

Jenny's new site: What they Don't Tell You About Diabetes
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"Dropped 21" wrote in message
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"Gary" wrote in message
...
I fasted on Yom Kippur (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown). So for
dinner Saturday night I broke the fast with several dishes I have
become accustomed to using for this purpose.

Most of the dishes were fine on the South Beach Diet, but one
consisted of boiled potatoes topped with (low-fat) sour cream. I
didn't want to skip the dish, as it has become "traditional" for me.

So my question relates to the physiological effects of eating these
potatoes, the first ones I've had since last December. My
understanding is that eating the potatoes causes a spike in blood
sugar, leading to hunger (appetite).

How long does this hunger last? Assuming I did not overeat after my
break-fast (it was a large meal), have I done myself any harm?

Personally I haven't had the worst effects. i had a few situations where
not
eating the foods would have ben very insulting to the hostess (my old
world
grandmother that is) so I've had about 2 or 3 occasions where I ate
potatoes
and I just didn't lose weight for about 2 days. then back to normal.

stick with your plan otherwise and you should be fine. everyone here says
"it's not a race" and it's good to keep that in mind.

good luck

Gary wrote:
I fasted on Yom Kippur (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown). So for
dinner Saturday night I broke the fast with several dishes I have
become accustomed to using for this purpose.

Most of the dishes were fine on the South Beach Diet, but one
consisted of boiled potatoes topped with (low-fat) sour cream. I
didn't want to skip the dish, as it has become "traditional" for me.

So my question relates to the physiological effects of eating these
potatoes, the first ones I've had since last December. My
understanding is that eating the potatoes causes a spike in blood
sugar, leading to hunger (appetite).

How long does this hunger last? Assuming I did not overeat after my
break-fast (it was a large meal), have I done myself any harm?



Last sunday I felt terrible and had problems with my stomach (which was
not at all related to what I've been eating). Apparantly I couldn't eat
anything. Nothing, and especially fat, would be accepted by my stomach.
I could eat icecream, however, so I ate a lot (more than half a liter).
It was not that it tasted particularly good, but it felt nice in my
stomach, and the only thing I could imagine eating. I think there was
about 20 grams of carbs per 100 ml, and later I ate a dürüm (turkish
flat bread) with meat and vegetables. And the next day I ate about a
half liter icecream with about 25 grams of carbs per 100 ml. I haven't
calculated exactly how many carbs I ate, but it must have been about
200-300 grams each of those 2 days. I gained what must have been about 2
pounds, and now they're lost again. I didn't have any problems
continuing on lowcarb and I don't get any craving for icecream.

It's probably very individual how it works but, apparantly it didn't
create any problems for me. It is probably related to your metabolism,
and I guess my metabolism is pretty high, cause I lost 6 kgs the first 2
weeks on induction on Atkins, so maybe that's why it didn't kick me out
of ketosis. Actually I peed on a lipo-stick that sunday, and it still
told me I was on ketosis, even though I had been eating a lot of carbs.

The only problem I've got now is that I can't eat too much fat in the
morning without getting nausious and feel like hell, so at the moment I
don't eat much breakfast.

I've only been doing lowcarb for almost 3 weeks now.

Gary wrote:
I fasted on Yom Kippur (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown). So for
dinner Saturday night I broke the fast with several dishes I have
become accustomed to using for this purpose.

Most of the dishes were fine on the South Beach Diet, but one
consisted of boiled potatoes topped with (low-fat) sour cream. I
didn't want to skip the dish, as it has become "traditional" for me.

So my question relates to the physiological effects of eating these
potatoes, the first ones I've had since last December. My
understanding is that eating the potatoes causes a spike in blood
sugar, leading to hunger (appetite).

How long does this hunger last? Assuming I did not overeat after my
break-fast (it was a large meal), have I done myself any harm?



Last sunday I felt terrible and had problems with my stomach (which was
not at all related to what I've been eating). Apparantly I couldn't eat
anything. Nothing, and especially fat, would be accepted by my stomach.
I could eat icecream, however, so I ate a lot (more than half a liter).
It was not that it tasted particularly good, but it felt nice in my
stomach, and the only thing I could imagine eating. I think there was
about 20 grams of carbs per 100 ml, and later I ate a dürüm (turkish
flat bread) with meat and vegetables. And the next day I ate about a
half liter icecream with about 25 grams of carbs per 100 ml. I haven't
calculated exactly how many carbs I ate, but it must have been about
200-300 grams each of those 2 days. I gained what must have been about 2
pounds, and now they're lost again. I didn't have any problems
continuing on lowcarb and I don't get any craving for icecream.

It's probably very individual how it works but, apparantly it didn't
create any problems for me. It is probably related to your metabolism,
and I guess my metabolism is pretty high, cause I lost 6 kgs the first 2
weeks on induction on Atkins, so maybe that's why it didn't kick me out
of ketosis. Actually I peed on a lipo-stick that sunday, and it still
told me I was on ketosis, even though I had been eating a lot of carbs.

The only problem I've got now is that I can't eat too much fat in the
morning without getting nausious and feel like hell, so at the moment I
don't eat much breakfast.

I've only been doing lowcarb for almost 3 weeks now.