Dealing with Sugar withdrawal

What do you recommend?


~Carol Ann
178/178/130

What do you recommend?

Immediately move the body and put your attention on something else. Do
something. Take the trash out, dust a shelf, open a window, read
something.

my2c

Carol Ann wrote:

What do you recommend?


~Carol Ann
178/178/130


It's temporary. Just do something else to take your mind off of it.
Play games with your wonderful daughter, take a walk, chew gum. BTW,
you haven't posted pictures of Morgan for a while. Don't you think it's
about time?

Marsha/Ohio

"Carol Ann" wrote:

What do you recommend?

Atkins Induction or the early part of whichever plan you
have selected. They are carefully designed to get you
through it as fast as possible. So almost anything you
try on your own is far more likely to make it last longer
than to cut down how long it lasts.

In particular if you give in and have more carbs you will
make the cravings last longer.

Think of the liver as having a "carb tank" like the gas
tank of a car. Below a certain point the alarm goes off
that you're supposed to fill your tank. That's the craving.
Add a little and all you end up doing is getting the alarm
again.

But once the tank empties completely the alarm turns
off and the car switches to a different fuel system.
That's the switch from glucose to fat. The switchover
isn't really like flipping a switch, but the cravings
really do turn off suddenly when all the carbs stored in
the liver are gone so the cravings are surprisingly like
lipping a switch when they turn off.

The chemistry - The inital carb level isn't so low because
20 is best for losing. It's that low to get through the
cravings fast. Add the least practical dietary carbs to
drain done the storage as fast as possible. And in the
case of Atkins 1999 and back there was stress on eating
very high fat during the cravings because that drives the
metabolism up - Higher metabolism, faster burn of stored
carbs, faster to run out, sooner to end cravings. Also for
me it somehow reduced the intensity of the cravings. The
high fat converted it from 1-2 weeks of trial by fire to a
couple of days of trying to tough it out because I didn't
want to believe the directions to the rest of the time a
bizarre but less intense feeling after I ramped up the fat
intake the way the instructions in the 1993 Aktins edition
I was working from said.

Carol Ann wrote:
What do you recommend?

Getting it over with as fast as possible. Cold turkey. Or pepperoni.
Or whatever.

I never try to keep myself from overeating at all... just eat legal
stuff until it fades.

--
http://www.ornery-geeks.org/consulting/

That's a good analogy, Doug.

Me, I just used artificially-sweetened stuff, such as diet Coke,
CrystalLite. Sort of like Peter's popsicles. I did find at first that it was
better to use these with or right after a meal, or I'd get low blood sugar
symptoms (probably cephalic insulin release from taste of sweetness). That
went away, though.

Certain foods seem to blunt that craving, too. Pepperoni dipped in cream
cheese. Tuna salad with lots of mayo.

Some have found L-glutamine powder to work. You need at least a gram or
more, though. I have a jar but have never tried it, but some have sworn by
the stuff.

HG

"Doug Freyburger" wrote in message
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"Carol Ann" wrote:

What do you recommend?

Atkins Induction or the early part of whichever plan you
have selected. They are carefully designed to get you
through it as fast as possible. So almost anything you
try on your own is far more likely to make it last longer
than to cut down how long it lasts.

In particular if you give in and have more carbs you will
make the cravings last longer.

Think of the liver as having a "carb tank" like the gas
tank of a car. Below a certain point the alarm goes off
that you're supposed to fill your tank. That's the craving.
Add a little and all you end up doing is getting the alarm
again.

But once the tank empties completely the alarm turns
off and the car switches to a different fuel system.
That's the switch from glucose to fat. The switchover
isn't really like flipping a switch, but the cravings
really do turn off suddenly when all the carbs stored in
the liver are gone so the cravings are surprisingly like
lipping a switch when they turn off.

The chemistry - The inital carb level isn't so low because
20 is best for losing. It's that low to get through the
cravings fast. Add the least practical dietary carbs to
drain done the storage as fast as possible. And in the
case of Atkins 1999 and back there was stress on eating
very high fat during the cravings because that drives the
metabolism up - Higher metabolism, faster burn of stored
carbs, faster to run out, sooner to end cravings. Also for
me it somehow reduced the intensity of the cravings. The
high fat converted it from 1-2 weeks of trial by fire to a
couple of days of trying to tough it out because I didn't
want to believe the directions to the rest of the time a
bizarre but less intense feeling after I ramped up the fat
intake the way the instructions in the 1993 Aktins edition
I was working from said.

"Marsha" wrote in message ...

It's temporary. Just do something else to take your mind off of it. Play
games with your wonderful daughter, take a walk, chew gum. BTW, you
haven't posted pictures of Morgan for a while. Don't you think it's about
time?

Marsha/Ohio


Awwwwww, you remembered me!!

How cool!!

She's awfully grown up!!!

~Carol Ann
180/178/130

What do you recommend?

Atkins Induction or the early part of whichever plan you
have selected. They are carefully designed to get you
through it as fast as possible. So almost anything you
try on your own is far more likely to make it last longer
than to cut down how long it lasts.

In particular if you give in and have more carbs you will
make the cravings last longer.

Think of the liver as having a "carb tank" like the gas
tank of a car. Below a certain point the alarm goes off
that you're supposed to fill your tank. That's the craving.
Add a little and all you end up doing is getting the alarm
again.

But once the tank empties completely the alarm turns
off and the car switches to a different fuel system.
That's the switch from glucose to fat. The switchover
isn't really like flipping a switch, but the cravings
really do turn off suddenly when all the carbs stored in
the liver are gone so the cravings are surprisingly like
lipping a switch when they turn off.

The chemistry - The inital carb level isn't so low because
20 is best for losing. It's that low to get through the
cravings fast. Add the least practical dietary carbs to
drain done the storage as fast as possible. And in the
case of Atkins 1999 and back there was stress on eating
very high fat during the cravings because that drives the
metabolism up - Higher metabolism, faster burn of stored
carbs, faster to run out, sooner to end cravings. Also for
me it somehow reduced the intensity of the cravings. The
high fat converted it from 1-2 weeks of trial by fire to a
couple of days of trying to tough it out because I didn't
want to believe the directions to the rest of the time a
bizarre but less intense feeling after I ramped up the fat
intake the way the instructions in the 1993 Aktins edition
I was working from said.

Thanks, Doug!!

Wow!

I'm toughing it out!

That's a good analogy, Doug.

Me, I just used artificially-sweetened stuff, such as diet Coke,
CrystalLite. Sort of like Peter's popsicles. I did find at first that it
was better to use these with or right after a meal, or I'd get low blood
sugar symptoms (probably cephalic insulin release from taste of
sweetness). That went away, though.

Certain foods seem to blunt that craving, too. Pepperoni dipped in cream
cheese. Tuna salad with lots of mayo.

Some have found L-glutamine powder to work. You need at least a gram or
more, though. I have a jar but have never tried it, but some have sworn by
the stuff.

HG

I am now recalling what it took the last time I low carbed.

Time for me to break out the book!

Hi Carol Ann, longtime no see!

Well, my own solution was sugar free popsickles available at any
grocery store. 10 calories, zero carbs, yet sucking on one satisfies
the "sweet" craving until you get over it. Even if you go back for a
2nd or third, they're so low in caloriesand carbs that it's
insignificant. I sillkeep a box in my freezer for those momets when I
have a powerful craving; they keep me from eating something much
worse.

Of course, Iunderstand that a lot of people would get chills just
thinkng about eating a popsickle in the wintertime. But that never
made sense to me. If it were summer the A/C would be set at 72
degrees, in the winter my heat is seat at 72. What difference does it
make what the temperature is outside if it's the same furn temperature
indoors in the winter as in the summer? ;-)

I know, I know ... I'm weird.

I won't even tell you about my snow cone machine ...
---
Peter

I'm going grocery shopping. Popsicles are on the top of my list!!

Too bad Sam's is so far away.

I need to load up!!

Great to see you!