Give up Low Carbing for the Holidays?

Dec 24th 2008 · by Catherine Osthaus

In the last two weeks I have had two days that have been higher carb and sugar. The first was a holiday work party. I did well at dinner but when I saw the dessert table I let my guard down and indulged. I also had an alcoholic beverage or two. Ah well.

The next day was back to normal low carb eating. I have been reading Suzanne Somers Fast & Easy. She has created a diet called Somersizing and it is mainly a high fat low carb diet. There are two phases – a weight loss phase and a maintenance phase where you can eat carbs (but without fats). Fruits are also allowed but should be eaten alone and preferably in the morning so you have all day to use the sugars and carbs.

Yesterday, I thought that I might try eating some fruit in the morning. I buy bananas every week and they always end up going brown (the kids used to love them and now they just don’t like them as much as they used too). So I thought that we would eat them up before they spoiled and have them for breakfast with a shared apple. After breakfast we went for a walk. We waited a few hours for the fruit to digest before eating lunch. But when lunch hit the kids ate their normal lunch and I had some eggs with veggies. This is not an unusual meal, except for the fact that I was still starving after I finished eating it. I caved to my carb cravings and ate all day (stale crackers and pretzels that have been in the cupboards for months, homemade delicious peach ice cream, whole grain toast with lots of butter- mmm.) I probably should have started my day with a lower sugar fruit and could have prevented this eating mess.