Alright, so you have terrible sugar cravings. And you're not on keto. Get on keto.
If you're new to my blog, very simply click the link down below and it will show you exactly what to do with the keto plan that will get rid of your sugar cravings. But let's say you're on keto and you have terrible sugar cravings, that means there's something seriously wrong because the way that you know you're in ketosis, which ketones are the byproduct of fat burning, is that your cravings go away and you're no longer hungry. So there's a couple things that could be going on. If you're on certain medications, for example, like prednisone or anti inflammatory or anti depression medication or antibiotics These can all increase cravings because they worsen your blood sugar's Also, if you're under a lot of stress that can do it as well or you have lack of sleep. Or even if you had an injury that can increase cravings, I'll give you an example. I was riding my bike up a bridge, and the pedal actually jammed.
I went over the handlebars, I landed on my elbow, I actually fractured my elbow and 30 different pieces. And what was interesting, well, wasn't interesting. It was very, very painful. But what was interesting about it is I started craving sugar, very quick, like I just needed some sugar, because it dropped my blood sugar's it crashed way, way down, because of the spike of cortisol, which is a stress hormone. It just went up and my blood sugar's went down. Alright, so let's take a look at potentially what you might be doing incorrectly.
So the first question is, are you keeping your carbs between 20 and 50 grams, maybe you should start counting them and measuring them. But here's some mistakes about this 20 to 50 grams, you are allowing carbs that are very high and the glycemic index, like straight sugar, or dextrose, or maltodextrin, you don't want to do that you want to avoid all carbs, we actually are talking about 20 to 50 grams of carbs, we're talking about not sugar carbs we're talking about. Because you should avoid all those completely. We're talking about like the carbs from berries, the carbs from nuts, which are small amounts, that's the type of carbs we're talking about, maybe the carbs that are in a hummus, for example, if you're consuming carbs that are high in the glycemic index, like sugar and things like that, yet, it's still within this range, you're not going to get in ketosis, because it's going to keep elevating your insulin, which is going to keep you from tapping in the fat. Alright, second problem is you're eating too frequently, you're not doing fasting, you might be snacking in between the meals. Remember, eating makes you hungry.
So the goal is to eat nothing to go longer, sometimes a little outside of vinegar, and water will help reduce hunger, that's a little tip there. But whatever you're doing, as far as the frequency of meals, you will need to make it longer. And the way that you do that as you add more fat to the meal to go longer, that's going to drop insulin, and it's going to get you into ketosis more and the more ketosis that you're in, the less the cravings, this should happen within three days, if you have very severe blood sugar issues, it could take up to five days, but it will happen if you keep carbs down and you fast longer, and I'm talking about like two meals a day, that would be perfect. Like maybe your first meal is at 12. And your next one is at six,you should be fun. The last thing and I think this is very important as well, consuming enough vegetables. So a lot of times when people are in keto, it says to do low carb, and vegetables are carbs. So I'm just going to cut those out. Or they might just have like one little tiny cup.
Well, in these vegetables, you have some key nutrients, a lot of nutrients, you have potassium, magnesium, and plus the fiber from the vegetable is fed to the microbes in your gut, which then releases something called butyrate. And butyrate is very helpful in balancing your blood sugars and giving your cells energy. So you'll find that if you include this right here, it's going to be a lot easier, you're going to be less hungry, you're going to be more satisfied, and definitely less cravings because even when you take potassium, magnesium, and that alone decreases sugar cravings. The last point I want to bring up is very important. When you do keto without doing intermittent fasting.
Let's say you're having snacks or the meal, but it's keto friendly, I found that you don't really see the benefits. Many times you might not lose hardly any weight. Why? Because every time you eat, you stimulate insulin, we're trying to keep insulin lower. So I highly recommend you don't do that. You do keto with fasting, and then some other people do fasting but the whatever they want.
Okay, so that's not good either. Because if you're eating junk food, sugar, high carbs, that is going to reduce your ability to see the benefits from fasting greatly. Okay, so you want to do them both together. Alright, so those solutions should fix your cravings.
