Honestly, I'm surprised you could do that, Lucille. It's seems like you've been eating low-carb for some time now, yes? I don't remember at what point I became averse to sweets, but not only do I not crave them but I would be totally turned off by a piece of store-bought frosted cake.

This is why I can sit in a restaurant content to sip water while my friends eat their desserts. I rarely look at the sweets--not because I want them, but because to me they look icky. :-)

Did you feel okay afterward? My blood sugar would have been going nuts. Not good. I guess I'm glad you enjoyed it, but I hope it didn't trigger cravings for you.

LOL. Even scarier when one does that and then notices that the calories are for one serving while the item in question serves two!

My idea of 'a serving' is not the same as that of Lindt Chocolate. I bought a bar of Lindt Dark Chocolate Intense Orange. The bar weighs 100 grams. My idea of a serving is one square. Theirs is four squares. That's 40 grams and 190 calories -- almost half the bar!

Alisande,

I am not averse to sweets but ordinarily I eat sugar free jello and the like. Some low carb people can't eat artificial sweeteners, because it triggers cravings, but not for me.

By the time I ate the cake I had been bicycling a total of 1 1/2 hours over the course of the morning, don't know if that had anything to do with it.

Nothing wrong with treating yourself once in awhile. If we never allow ourselves to indulge in something........................ sorry, off to see if I have something sweet, hopefully with fewer calories than a piece of frosted cake!

Hey life is short. Take the trip; buy the shoes; eat the cake.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFKifpMtlNs

I have been eating low carbs for may be 14 years, and I still love love love my sweets. When I eat something like a cake that has more calories than I expected, I just try to be really careful about what I eat for the rest of the day :)

Once in a while you just gotta do it. Cake...I love cake.

I'm surprised to hear low-carb eaters talking about calories. I haven't thought about calories in decades. Well, as I've said a zillion times, we're all different. There's no one-size-fits-all-diet.

I was addicted to sugar for a long time, and diagnosed as pre-diabetic many years ago. Giving up sugar was hard at first. But it was the best thing for me, and a real blessing now that I have Lyme disease. The Lyme spirochetes thrive on sugar.

Lily that's a sensible way to cope so for the rest of the day I didn't have even one more carb.. I stay in ketosis most of the time, but from time to time go out of it. Today, I'm sure I went out. No big deal.

I like Socks outlook: "once in a while you just gotta do it." I actually like the 'cake by the slice' deal, otherwise the rest of the cake would be beckoning me.

Yep. You ate a piece of cake that was loaded with sugar and/or real sweeteners. You gotta have one of those things once in awhile. Just don't do it again for at least a week. My weakness is chocolate and crullers.

I was doing carb counting last year. It ain't easy and don't kid yourself - It is a diet, just designed differently. Carb counting is a favorite among dieticians prescribing (and teaching) for diabetics.

I'm like Susan. I don't get tempted by desserts. I will eat a small piece of a birthday cake when I have parties for the kids, but that's it. Not tempted although I grew up with a mother who baked almost every day. Pies, cakes, brownies, sticky buns, cookies. It's a wonder I wasn't a tub.

No need to feel remorse. Treat yourself right now and then. Maybe you'll be the only one who will. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I did low carb several years ago, and I would feel so guilty if I had some fruit of carrots or peas. I really ought to get back to it.

If you stay in ketosis, doesn't it cause bad breath. When I was able to stay carb free, that was an issue. Now I have kidney disease and have to have very little protein, boo hoo.

I'm doing the ketogenic diet now but so far I haven't had the bad breath. I also don't really crave sweets. I miss beans more than sweets. I was recently out to dinner with some friends and they were all eating cake and felt bad for eating it in front of me. I told them to enjoy it because it didn't bother me at all. I have been eating this way since March 21st when the doc said I was pre-diabetic. I don't get that hungry eating this way because of the fat I eat. I have found Lily's chocolate. It's sweetened with Stevia and is really good so I that a berries if I want something sweet.

Apparently the one piece of cake did not knock me out of keto, nor did it trigger any desires for further carb indiscretions. All's well that ends well.

I spoke too soon. I've decided to stop doing the very low carb way of eating for a while. Will see how that works out.

Lucille-

You might try adding back some carbs by choosing those on the lower half of the Glycemic Index of Foods. When going off a low-carb diet and adding back some carbs, your body reacts even more to them and you may risk blood glucose issues. Good luck on your new adventure.

I just spent 8 days and 9 nights at my parents. I decided that I would just eat whatever my mom served. I have been doing KETO for 2 years now. I weighed myself the day we left for BC. I was 148.2 pounds. I forgot to weigh myself Tuesday morning (we got back Monday night), but this morning I am 150.8! I gained at least 2 1/2 pounds eating "a normal diet". And I didn't pig out! I did have a few cookies. I ate potatoes. And I had one Big Mac meal. I still drank my water and tried to keep the carbs as low as possible, but when you're "living" with someone who just one year ago criticized every single thing you put in your mouth, it's hard to stick with it. I am back home now and 100% back to Keto. I'm still a healthy weight for my height, but seeing as how I gained at least 2 1/2 pounds in a week, I'm not going back to my old ways any time soon.

Debby,

When you go from keto to a higher carb non keto diet, your body will hold on to some extra water. So while you did gain weight, it was not all fat.

Grainlady, will check that out, thanks.

Yes, I know.