Thanks BIWI, I know you're right. It's so annoying, I've been eating low carb for over a year on and off, but until Christmas I was sticking to it faithfully and lost almost a stone (dairy slows me down and it took me a while to figure that out). I didn't crave anything and felt really strong. Then we took time off for Christmas and ate the usual stuff, mince pies, cake, chocolates. Since then we've been a week on, a week off more or less. One of us always gives in for some reason and the other follows.
Part of the reason is it's so hard to eat low carb sometimes - the world is not equipped to deal with it!! Everything is either bread based or sugary when you're out and about and I'm so fed up of eating the same stuff - all I take to work is tuna salad, ham salad, egg salad, cold chicken ... I'm not a fab cook, just average, but not very imaginative, so struggle to come up with new ideas. Even seeing recipes on the thread doesn't inspire me to try something new - lazy, I guess. Now the lack of money isn't helping, but probably isn't the main problem here. I am feeling stressed, anxious, tired because I'm not sleeping well and chocolate is my comfort food. I know I need to change that, just not sure how.
I think it's also my frame of mind. At the beginning last year I think I thought if I could get through the first few days, weeks, months, the cravings would go and never come back. But I've found out that's not true for me, the cravings (a bit like smoking) are always there. I haven't smoked for nearly 8 years but still sometimes in times of extreme stress I find myself thinking, I could have a fag! I never do, but then I have health anxiety and I think that stops me going down that route. Doesn't stop me buying chocolate though! 