nutty blues

[Momma2threegirls]

So, I've been doing really good. A fter 3.5 years on the market our hosue sold and we had 28 days to relocate out of state with three kids three and under. I stayed true to my low carb lifestyle and I am finally ina "healthy" weigh range and closing in on my goal!! But I have the nut blues.

I recently have been experimenting with nuts. I tried sunflower and pine nuts...no problems and then walnuts... MY GOD the craving. I want them all the time. I think about them, salivate over them, and obess over eating them and the other day I ate WAY more than I should of and it is THE first time since strating atkins in June that I lost my wilpower and fell ill to the cravings...actually it's the first time outside of induction that I have HAD a craving. What's the deal? I am feeling bummed about it. Any thoughts. Incidentally my solution was to get rid of the bag of walnuts and I pulled my self off the nut rung altogether.............and I don't have the craving "taste" for them anymore.

Thanks for the thoughts,

Erika

[DLS]

Re: nutty blues

I know just what you mean! I have allowed myself to have nuts a few times over the last couple of weeks. I like to count out my 22 almonds and have them in a dish while watching late night television. I nibble on one at a time taking several bites to make them last. LOL They are replacing my chips from pre-atkins munchy time.
I think if you go into it with the "measuring" attitude it might help. You can buy a jar and premeasure into the little snack ziplocks. That way you know just what you are eating.

Good luck!

[OzLover]

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I feel your pain! I have read that many members have issues with nuts causing cravings. Dr. Atkins warns that "nuts are notoriously hard to eat in moderation". DLS is right on suggesting that you count out the nuts & put them in snack size baggies. You may also need to cut out nuts for awhile.

Good luck & congrats on being close to your goal!!

[Momma2threegirls]

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They are really hard to moderate. But I was counting, measureing and creating seperate baggies right from the start to try and head off a problem. I guess I am just going to forego them for now and try again later.

[Chicklady]

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You could just stick to the sunflower seeds and pinenuts. There's also pecans, hazelnuts, almonds, etc. You may just have an issue with walnuts. Or not. Only experimenting will tell. Lots of healthful fats in nuts, and maybe one of the others won't affect you. I only have real issues with peanuts; the rest I can do in moderation. You just never know!

[Chicklady]

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BTW, I have found that nuts still in their shells are much easier to eat less of

[boonie stomper]

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If walnuts are the absolute top nut, you might want to mentally reclassify them as en exotic spice, to be added in small measure as a special ingredient to a favorite dish only, instead of eating them all by themselves. Then savor the whole meal, without eating too many walnuts.

[ceemarie]

Re: nutty blues

Almonds are a great nut and I usally can stop eating them.

[Elizellen]

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As chicklady suggested - it would be a good idea rather than dropping all nuts to carry on and see which ones you CAN eat in moderation and which should be kept for a garnish on a special dish because you cannot 'moderate' them.

I think is it our own Not2late who found she could only eat one brand of ricotta cheese by experimenting and seeing how she reacted to others. Without spending the time and effort on finding this out she could easily have assumed that all ricotta was a 'no-no' for her and missed out on so many possible recipes.

Owl is a great scientific experiment that can teach us so much about how our body works, so finding some foods we will have to omit or be careful with is a great result and will help us manage our way of eating in the future.

[Momma2threegirls]

Re: nutty blues...still struggling

grrrrr still struggling here with nuts. I have portioned them out and tried lots of varieties now (walnuts, hazelnuts, macademia, pecan, peanut, brazil nuts, and almonds) They have all triggered cravings like a raving lunatic. I have also tried eating them tucked into something rather than whole or chopped to se if it's a oral sensation craving or something metabloic. So for Thanksgiving I made an almond flour crust on a pumpkin cheesecake. All the other ingredients were part of my diet and BANG cravings out the yin yang and I didn't eat anything else new the whole day and stayed on plan. I know I can experiment with other nuts flours and such - but this just stinks!

I have a girlfriend who is a doc. She is VERY holistic and the atkins diet doesn't bother her in the least bit in fact she likes it b/c overall it's very much an anti inflamatory diet in adition to an insulin/hormones regulator. She only worries about lacked vital nutrients/vitamins/minerals ect. She posed this question:

Could it be that there is a vital nutrient/vitamin/mineral in nuts that your diet lacks and so the craving is a metabolic need vs a food adiction or food allergy situation?

So what are your thoughts???

[Chicklady]

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I would think that if that were the case, you would crave them before you ate them.
The only nutrient i can think that all nuts are really high in is manganese....