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Dealing with Sugar withdrawal
What do you recommend?
~Carol Ann 178/178/130 |
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Dealing with Sugar withdrawal
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 |
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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 |
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Dealing with Sugar withdrawal
"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. |
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Dealing with Sugar withdrawal
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/ |
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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 ... "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. |
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"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 |
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Dealing with Sugar withdrawal
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! |
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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! |
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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! |
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