minitata's Journal, 25 August 2017

Good luck Mini! 🙋🏻I have the same problem you do breaking with sweet carbs and my sweet tooth. 🙇🏻‍♀️Sometimes I think I have it kicked, then something like this surgery happens where they want me to eat carbs and I'm right back on the sweet carbs and fighting to stay away from them. 🤦🏻‍♀️ 

Hello, my friend. Please don't worry; you'll do great! Phil's been on maintenance for a year so you might want to speak to him for guidelines. In one of his posts he said he was doing strict keto 4 days a week and then slacking a bit for the other days. And I just notices April's post so you're all set! :-) 

Hi minitata- I'm curious if after a few months on a ketogenic diet if you will notice some improvements in several areas of your health. One lovely surprise for me was a tremendous reduction in anxiety. I hope you experience an improvement as well! Keep us updated on how you are feeling. This is such a fantastic community! ❤️🌺🌸 

One more thing- I cannot live without chocolate- if you can find it, try this for your sweet tooth: no sugar, tastes creamy and delicious & it's all natural and healthy: Lily's creamy milk chocolate bars with stevia. Half of a huge bar is only 3 carbs. 😊 I just ordered a case from my local market! 

Good luck mini Like me, you are battling for your long term health. We will win together! I'm nearing s healthy weight( or I was🤔) What a great achievement Like you, for me it's all about the belly fat.. size 14 waistbands would be great You're doing s fantastic job and will continue, like me, to fight the carbs👍👍 

I was interested in the chocolate sweetened with stevia. We can't buy Lily's in the UK but there are other makes. Unfortunately, they all seem to contain inulin which I can't eat because it gives me stomach cramps. 

Doobrie- yes even Lily's has the inulin from chicory root. Its a prebiotic fiber that is supposed to be very good for you but stomach cramps do not sound good! Well, I have mixed up little truffle balls mixing cocoa powder, vanilla, stevia, erythritol and mascarpone and kept them in the fridge. Not portable like chocolate but still nice. I've been to the UK and I bet you could find some really top notch cocoa powder from France! The other option is to just buy extremely dark chocolate that is already naturally low in carbohydrates. The serving would be smaller than eating something like Lily's but there would be not offending ingredients. Good luck in your journey! 

Thank you Bluecoaster - some good ideas there. I have some lovely organic cocoa powder, Green & Blacks, that I use for flavouring. The little truffle balls sound delicious 🙂