I have entire days lost in carbo craving. I can't believe how obsessed I can be.

Any tricks to get over it? I refused to give in to bagel obsession this morning and I have no carbs to speak of in the house (induction vegies are only carbs at home). But my mind and body is screaming for crabs.

You did great to resist. Bagles are some of the worst for carbs there are. Atkins recomends a suppliment to help, I think it's L-Glutamine (sp)

Make sure you are eating enough acceptable foods, and having enough fat to really fill you up. Use fitday to help www.fitday.com

The cravings really do go away or at least lesson the longer you stick to this WOE and don't cheat. Cut out any SF candies, protien bars or other sweeter things that could contribute to cravings. You might also want to make sure you aren't eating so much protien that it's causing a gluclose reaction.

When the cravings hit, find a high fat/protien snack to have. A piece of chicken, tuna, 1/2 avacado ect. Also keep busy and distract yourself. Take a walk, clean or do something else active. Above all just have patience and hang in there. Remember a cheat only makes the cravings worse

Well, then go eat those crabs already!

Honestly try to think of bagels as a big ball of gluttony gunk just sitting in your stomach. It gives me heartburn just thinking about it! To combat the cravings try tuna or egg salad on celery, and make sure to add lots of mayo. For some reason that always works for me. Fixing a good, high calorie lowcarb meal also does the trick, or a beef frank (Hebrew National or Nathens are my fave).

twice today, i would have almost seriously hurt someone for a coke. i've been drinking water and drinking water to hopefully leave no room for a coke. hopefully, tomorrow will be better. i haven't given in though!

amy

To combine what I've heard from members of this forum - take a good long hard look at that food that is tempting you - will it taste better than wearing that pair of jeans goal size will feel????

Drink water and eat something high fat, protein like a burger or steak with some salad or veggies with a cheesy dressing, take in the taste of how good this is - do you really want to be sat there facing a massive bowl of dressing free salad?????

I've lost entire days actually EATING the stuff I'm craving, so I can't complain when all I do is think about it. It feels bad, but not as bad as the hangover from consumption.

One day at a time. Sometimes, it's one hour at a time. I'm not going to eat that RIGHT NOW. So what else can I do for an hour? And then I get caught up in something else.

Move a muscle, change a thought.

HALT--hungry angry lonely tired--also helps. When I'm in any of those states, mood-altering food sure seems like a better idea than at other times. Treat the emotion.

Today, I haven't craved carbs yet.

When I do crave them, I do eat low carb foods but sometimes I can be completely stuffed and still crave carbs.

Not today. Yea!

Doitnow - The longer you can stick with this WOE the easier it gets. The cravings really well lessen and almost disapear

Don't cheat, that will only make the cravings worse. Stay away from bars, shakes, SF chocolate and other legal sweet things until you have teh cravings under control. It is better to endulge in an allowed sweet then to grab a cookie, but sometimes any sweet tasting thing can trigger massive cravings. You can do this, you are already doing great

Hi there,
I was having major carb cravings lately and I started seeing an accupuncturist and taking chromium picholinate. This has really helped me.
Just my own experience

I have found that eating one of those pre-packaged string cheeses helps with cravings. They are great because they are in one ounce servings so you can monitor your intake, and if you are really hungry you can have two without blowing the program. Of course, my personal cravings are usually for something crunchy/salty, and I find that pork skins generally do the trick!

Yes...string cheese really helps me too. I also eat black olives or brocolli with ranch dressing.

i know it is generally advised to avoid the imitations of what you want, but when i get a craving for carbs, i have a carb solution or endulge bar. i make sure i have somethign else with it- just to make sure im not hungry afterwards, and it really satisfies me. if that isn't available, i have somethign spicy. for some reason, spicy just gets rid of the need for any sort of food. good luck getting rid of those cravings.

I find a diet Hansen's soda cures my sweet tooth.

I'm a departure from the norm I guess

I have scheduled cheats I didn't cheat while on induction however. Scheduling like a serving of ice cream once a week (ice cream is the only one I really crave), really helps my willpower and makes me feel undeprived. And, at least for me, reduces my cravings since I had a "taste" of it. Others may be different since a carbo load may induce more cravings.

Plus it helps I found some ice cream brands where a 1/2 cup serving is 14 grams of carbs

Low carbing since 5/23/03
The Firm exercise series believer

Saw mention of the new LC icecream on one of the other lists--people were saying it was pretty good.

Available at Super WalMart.