Thank you for this well thought out, kind and well researched answer. This is not an article that debates whether or not ketogenic diets work nor to debate the merits of it. This is a blog specifically for people who suffer from eating disorders and restricted eating or intentional weight loss are both contraindicated in all eating disorder recovery. Diets for someone recovering from eating disorders are like vodka for someone recovering from alcoholism. Please note the audience rather than spewing hate filled words because you lost weight on a particular diet. Your diet is not about anyone who needs to recover from an eating disorder and your juvenile vitriol is only being used to create shame and to belittle. It’s very silly that people see their diets in such dogma that it becomes religion and they get angry at anyone who has had a different experience than them. Your experience is just that. Your experience. You cannot decide that because something was good for you that it will be good for another human being.

that’s class. 🙂

Thankk’s

Marine

I kinda undergo the same situation because I planned to get 6 pack ABS in one summer & still strugging on how to get back to it. The auther her is providing us the solution.

Wish you the best

Thanks so much for this comment. And you for sure are not the only person who goes through this exact process. (Though perhaps you feel alone).

I have a few questions for you. First, are you sure that you’re actually eating enough?

Second, are you eating enough protein during the day?

Third, (and most important) have you seen a doctor and specifically gotten your blood sugar tested? The symptoms that you describe sound very hypoglycemic or somehow blood sugar related. I’m not a physician, so you shouldn’t take my opinion as anything other than an educated guess, but I’d really, really encourage you to see a doctor and get a referral to a nutritionist to help you figure out what is happening with your body/food/moods. They’re all interrelated.

Do you mean that eating whole food carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables can trigger a binge on processed carbs? If that’s what you’re saying, I would believe that the problem isn’t in the whole foods, but the problem is binge eating disorder. If you are a binge eater, you will binge on anything, even apples or garbanzo beans or tofu or meat. The problem comes when you have a belief (magical thinking) that one macronutrient will trigger a binge. Before agrarian society, people weren’t hunting and gathering blueberries then turning around and binge eating loaves of bread. That is largely a problem of “food” processing and chemicals in our foods. So where I do agree that eating chemically processed foods and sugar laden things can be a big contributor in binge eating, I think that if you are eating apples or squash then bingeing on cake, it’s probably more about a message that you’ve sent yourself that you can’t eat these things without triggering a binge. There’s no nutrients in a piece of cake, it’s empty calories, so your body will need more and more and more. A fruit or vegetable is filled with vitamins and fiber, so there is a greater chance that the nutritional needs of your body is met so that you’re not needing to binge to meet those needs.

Thanks for your comment, but do you care to elaborate?

I’m all for lively debate and differences in opinion, but I definitely need more than this to go on!