Keto break... Some thoughts
Stuart and I have been eating a ketogenic diet for a month now, and this weekend we had a wedding to attend in Adelaide which provided the perfect opportunity to take a break and assess how we felt about it.
And having spent a weekend eating carbs, we are both very keen to back to a ketogenic diet. Which is not what we expected at all!
Carbohydrates are really sweet. And so much more so after a month on a diet essentially free of sugars.
We shared a Cornish pasty on Saturday, and while the flavours of swede and peppery lamb were nice, the peas and carrots were overwhelming in their sugary richness. It was a bit too much.
And we didn't manage to finish even one slice of bread of the two provided on our brunch platter on Sunday.
We ate everything at the wedding feast, of course, and it was delicious. Vegetarian wedding with gorgeous food - chickpea tagine, meringue roulade, tomato tart. Yum.
I think, though, that we both expected to find this weekend a welcome break from the limited options we have for food on keto. And instead, we found that we missed those constraints.
We did find benefits in the break otherwise though. We both ate less than normal - its much easier to notice how carbohydrates trigger various body signals when you have been free of that signalling for a month. Keto is free of hunger signals and fullness signals and also, to some extent, even free of this-mouthful-has-this-many-calories signals. But carbs shout at you, a lot. When that noise is constant, its easy to acclimate. We've had silence for a month and the shouting was deafening. We couldn't avoid the dramatic signalling and it meant more moderation in our eating to account for it. Fullness is really uncomfortable but its shockingly easy to get used to, too. And we didn't want to get used to it. We ate one adult portion between us, for most meals, as a result.
I have more thoughts. Later. When I am less full.
And having spent a weekend eating carbs, we are both very keen to back to a ketogenic diet. Which is not what we expected at all!
Carbohydrates are really sweet. And so much more so after a month on a diet essentially free of sugars.
We shared a Cornish pasty on Saturday, and while the flavours of swede and peppery lamb were nice, the peas and carrots were overwhelming in their sugary richness. It was a bit too much.
And we didn't manage to finish even one slice of bread of the two provided on our brunch platter on Sunday.
We ate everything at the wedding feast, of course, and it was delicious. Vegetarian wedding with gorgeous food - chickpea tagine, meringue roulade, tomato tart. Yum.
I think, though, that we both expected to find this weekend a welcome break from the limited options we have for food on keto. And instead, we found that we missed those constraints.
We did find benefits in the break otherwise though. We both ate less than normal - its much easier to notice how carbohydrates trigger various body signals when you have been free of that signalling for a month. Keto is free of hunger signals and fullness signals and also, to some extent, even free of this-mouthful-has-this-many-calories signals. But carbs shout at you, a lot. When that noise is constant, its easy to acclimate. We've had silence for a month and the shouting was deafening. We couldn't avoid the dramatic signalling and it meant more moderation in our eating to account for it. Fullness is really uncomfortable but its shockingly easy to get used to, too. And we didn't want to get used to it. We ate one adult portion between us, for most meals, as a result.
I have more thoughts. Later. When I am less full.