Hi ,

I have never been a butter person, I have had toforce myself toeatmore fats since I stared Atkins, however for the last couple of days I have been craving butter badly, so bad that I run to a butter stick and bite a chunck of it, I also fancy a drink of olive oil, what's hapenning to me??? am I getting addicted to fats??? did anyone else go through this???


thanks

I too had to get used to butter for this diet and now I have gotten un-used to it.
Watching both caloric and carb intake makes me steer away from it now. But I still get a high enough fat percentage in my diet.
This change in diet is so radical it is normal to crave the few things that are allowed 'liberally'. I personally do not understand why butter would be unlimited and cream not......makes no sense to me that butter has no carbs- its just churned cream???
But a stick of butter just about fills my caloric intake per day so I am limiting myself to 2 T a day.
Why are you craving this?
Because it is allowed ! It is a strange mentality that takes over when you are on this diet. Changing lifelong eating patterns. Restriction makes you do nutty things sometimes!
I went to Starbucks this morning, to pick up coffee, and was waiting on line and the same thing happened to me that happens so often. I looked in the display case,, and there was NOTHING that I could eat if I were hungry and stuck there. Now thats a diet. The closest thing was a chicken ceasar salad- at 7 am thats not really possible. Same thing at movie theaters-I can only grab laughing cow cheese at the deli next door after searching the aisles for a snack during the movie- now thats a diet !
So what happens when all these patterns are 'broken' is we get really wierd and crazy cravings.
I read somewhere that driniking oil is not a bad idea- maybe flaxseed oil but still.
So dont worry you are adjusting

fairchild : many thanks for your reply, I just remebered that TOM is round the corner, but normally I crave other stuff, e.g. cheese/nuts/strawneries& cream etc etc, this is th first time in my life that I have craved butter !!!

it is crazy that we have such a hard time finding any healthy snacks in the shops to eat, I remember Whyspers posting a post about what could her DH have for a snack from the shops, people have had a very hard time getting some ideas together... very odd that you go to a supermarket and you find very very few healthy snacks available to us.

The whole nation have become so unhealthy .. and if they try to be healthy shops wont help.

Hi SandyDown,

You can mix the butter with a sprinking of pure cocoa powder and some powdered sweetener - result - chocolate butter for spreading on low carb pancakes. Yummy!
Robert

Hey SandyDown!

Switching from margerine to butter was the last change I made in the first weeks of induction. I gave my 9 year old some on a bagel one morning, and she said, "YUM! What's this?" I realised of course, that I had been eating low-fat for so many years, my kids had never TASTED butter and didn't know what it was! Now my daughter asks for toast all the time instead of cereal. Says she is craving the butter lol.

Hi Smudgie

I finally got round to reading my email, then I realized who you are.

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