Please Help Me Quit My Carb Addiction

[Anonymous]

Get a dash waffle maker for $10 at target, carton of egg whites and shredded cheese. Then Google “Chaffle recipes”

Everyday I used to eat oatmeal with nuts and Craisins and bananas or apples for breakfast, a chicken strips wrap or blt English muffin sandwich fir lunch, roasted potatoes or pasta for dinner, and snack all day. I got serious about my carb intake mid January!

I started by eating Chaffle as bread for 2 days. It doesn’t really have a taste just used it to hold my BLT together and my cheeseburger on the bun. Then I put cream cheese and “Everything but bagel crunch” seasoning on it! I made avocado toast with it. I even used 2 to make a grilled cheese sandwich. For a treat I bought low carb ice cream pops. And I eat my 2 gummy vitamins really slowly during the day - taste like candy!!

Not on purpose, but somehow started doing IF because for energy I drank 1-2 cups of coffee with heavy cream (no sugar) for breakfast (very filling) so I’m not hungry until 11 or 12 (even tho my stomach growls). Actually the cream has 50 calories so might not even be IF. But breakfast is a very filling, rich 150 calories MAX.

The first week I went to bed at 10 just so I wouldn’t snack.

Anyway in 5 weeks I have almost no appetite and have to force myself to eat, so my metabolism doesn’t get too wonky.. I still eat carbs, but the addiction is gone! Today I ate a few grapes, and 1/2 if a chicken, bacon quesadilla when my husband ordered in for everyone.

[Anonymous]

Fellow carb lover here. I've been making such bad choices this past year with working from home. I am now trying a local delivery service for breakfast and lunch. For breakfast I am eating their egg muffins (no carbs) and for lunch I am trying meals that have more protein than carbs. For afternoon snack I am trying to have almonds instead of crackers or chips. I also sort of do a 14 hour IF with nothing except coffee before 11 am or so. I have never been able to go a 16:8 IF but maybe I will if I am upping my protein intake. We shall see.

[Anonymous]

I am confused by this chuffle thing. Wouldn't the same size pancake have fewer calories? I mean, cheese is packed with calories.
I mean, sure, OP wants to quit carb overeating, but isn't that just replacing one calorie with another calorie that might actually make her gain weight?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am confused by this chuffle thing. Wouldn't the same size pancake have fewer calories? I mean, cheese is packed with calories.
I mean, sure, OP wants to quit carb overeating, but isn't that just replacing one calorie with another calorie that might actually make her gain weight?

It varies. First, not everyone responds the same way to carbs. If one serving of chaffles is satisfying, and provides protein and calcium, that’s preferable to one or more servings of pancakes with butter and syrup that set off carb cravings. I’m not sure about the calories, but I’d argue that, say, 300 satisfyingly nutritious calories is a better choice than 250 calories that are mostly starch and sugar, especially if that choice sets off cravings for more starch and sugar.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am confused by this chuffle thing. Wouldn't the same size pancake have fewer calories? I mean, cheese is packed with calories.
I mean, sure, OP wants to quit carb overeating, but isn't that just replacing one calorie with another calorie that might actually make her gain weight?

It varies. First, not everyone responds the same way to carbs. If one serving of chaffles is satisfying, and provides protein and calcium, that’s preferable to one or more servings of pancakes with butter and syrup that set off carb cravings. I’m not sure about the calories, but I’d argue that, say, 300 satisfyingly nutritious calories is a better choice than 250 calories that are mostly starch and sugar, especially if that choice sets off cravings for more starch and sugar.

There are calorie-free syrups today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am confused by this chuffle thing. Wouldn't the same size pancake have fewer calories? I mean, cheese is packed with calories.
I mean, sure, OP wants to quit carb overeating, but isn't that just replacing one calorie with another calorie that might actually make her gain weight?

It varies. First, not everyone responds the same way to carbs. If one serving of chaffles is satisfying, and provides protein and calcium, that’s preferable to one or more servings of pancakes with butter and syrup that set off carb cravings. I’m not sure about the calories, but I’d argue that, say, 300 satisfyingly nutritious calories is a better choice than 250 calories that are mostly starch and sugar, especially if that choice sets off cravings for more starch and sugar.

There are calorie-free syrups today.

might not help with cravings
there are studies that drinks with sugar substitutes cause similar insulin response to regular drinks, which means sweetness by itself might be the problem.
You can get sugar crush (read - incontrollable carb cravings) without even eating sugar for breakfast.
YMMV of cause, based on the health of your pancreas (FYI - 45% of US population is unhealthy in that regard due diabetics/prediabetic according to 2020 CDC report)

[Anonymous]

I love carbs too but find that higher fiber carbs satisfy -- Ezekiel Bread (freezer section) with peanut butter or Wasa Multi-Grain crackers. I also want carbs more when it's cold and gray. Sunnier days are coming so make sure you get out in the sun for walks.