Hello again! I posted for advice a while back because I felt so awful on a low carb diet, and decided that I was eating too few carbs to function on them but too many to go into ketosis. I dropped fruit from my meal plan and while I still feel awful, it's nowhere near as bad as it was the first time, I think I am in ketosis this time. Still waiting for that fabulous boost of energy though . . .
Anyway, I have a new problem brewing. My birthday's in two weeks and while dinner's no problem, I don't know what about dessert. Everyone will expect a cake, but even 90% dark chocolate tastes sweet now. A cake I'd like would probably be too bitter for everyone else, a regular cake would kick me out of ketosis and I'd have to start all over again, and I detest artificial sweeteners.
So, how do you guys handle birthdays? (In my defense I did run a search, but it refused to search for "birthday" because the word was too common!) Do you make a low carb cake that everyone shares, or have a regular cake and just have a tiny slice? Or just not have anything after supper? And if that's the case how do you deal with the people who expected a cake?
I'd really appreciate some advice, I'm getting so stressed out and miserable trying to figure out what to do here. I'm probably not even going to stay on the ketogenic diet to add insult to injury, but I do want to give it the full three months it can take some people to adjust before I write it off so I can't even just have a cheat day here. Birthdays shouldn't be this much of a hassle.