I cheated - but it wasn't that good!

[LC_Dave]

After a week on my first ever Atkins Induction.... I cheated!
I had all these carby foods - I even had two servings of Pavlova & Ice Cream!

The funny thing was, it wasn't what I expected! I thought it would be a big rush, You know like when you once had low blood sugar and had a quick fix of cocca cola - boy what a rush!

But this was benign. I actually felt silly cheating, and decided that I no longer needed to cheat from Now on. I think the sugar rush only occurs after you are addicted again.

Anyone else experienced this? :confused:

[Natrushka]

Dave, you'll find with LCing that your tastes do change - for the better :) Carbs are addicting - they cause chemical changes in our bodies; once you've been w/o them for a while those changes just don't feel all that great. Some of us actually get sick from it.

Often trying those things we used to love so much is the best thing for us - you can't know what you're missing if you don't take that plunge. Finding out you're not missing anything makes keeping to your WOL so much easier.

Happy LCing!
Nat

[razzle]

Dave, absolutely it's common! I fell back into carb eating last year for a month, and I swear to you, the whole time I was thinking, "this tastes awful!" It's the addictive nature of them that kept me eating them anyway (and I think a persistant hope that they'd start tasting as good as they once did to me--but that NEVER happened!) What a relief to get back off those carbs and into eating the meats and veggies and seeds and nuts that I really do prefer.

Your lack of physical response may also mean your system is healing itself. Wow, wouldn't that be the best of news?

Congratulations for the learning experience. Keep going on your way to becoming one of our big success stories! :)

[Pearl]

Dave, I to have felt the guilt that comes from cheating. I had a small piece of birthday cake on my best friends birthday and it was awful. I will again cheat as my birthday is coming in two weeks. Hopefully it will taste better. When you get down to your goal weight it probably will not feel like cheating anymore.

Pearl :wave:

[KarenB]

Yep, I've done it too. Sometimes it was sweets, sometimes it was starches, but in both cases (I had only two times I would really say "I cheated") I knew after a very short time that it wasn't worth my while.

The stuff really *doesn't* taste all that good anymore. And the way I felt physically, let alone mentally, really didn't justify having done it.

Forgive and move on. You're doing *great!*

[lauraW]

Hi Dave,

I have also been there...and got sicker than a dog actually..was a great eye opener for me. I learned that my body cannot handle all the carbs, and how much better I feel when I am LC'ing it.

Good luck to you!

Laura

[Pearl]

Well I cheated again. I had wings and calamari when I went out with my husband the other night. It did not taste very good. But then the next day I went out and had chicken nuggets from Mcdonalds and they tasted just fine. I did not eat the fries even though I really wanted some. My husband keeps saying to me that go ahead have just one it wont hurt. He says that just one will be fine and it should not affect my diet all that much. I am back on track and trying to stay good.

Pearl :wave:

[KarenB]

For those of us who know we're recovering carb addicts, as the saying goes--one is too many, and a thousand is never enough. I *know* if I eat that one fry, I'll have eaten the entire packet before anyone even sees me. If I eat that *one* M&M, the whole 1lb bag will vanish into my gut.

YMMV, and no two people are exactly alike. I speak for myself when I say, I *can't* eat just one--nor do I even *want* that one. Thank you, but no.

This isn't to say I *never* cheat. I'd be lying if I said that. But I don't let other people urge me into it. My cheating is strictly between me, myself, and I. (And it's *very* rare--because I never feel better after I do, so what's the point in doing it?) No one waves food under my nose and pleads with me. The ones who have tried have learned their lesson--it doesn't work. :)

[razzle]

And it's *very* rare--because I never feel better after I do, so what's the point in doing it?

very wise, KarenB! for some of us (me included!) that lesson has to be learned four or five times before it sinks in. At least I hope it's fully 'sunk' for me. ;)