Does low carbing go out the window on a very special occasion? How strict are you?

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Ive been kind of low carbing all week (gone by the rules but left sugar in my tea) and lost 3lb, but more importantly the stomach discomfort and headaches - the reason Im low carbing - are non existant.

However, Ive just spent 4 hours lovingly baking my son a calorific, fattening, ridiculously carb heavy birthday cake for his 3rd birthday tomorrow. I would obviously like some, but more importantly I want to join in with the cake celebrations.

Would you?

It is up to you. I am like a heroine or alcohol addict. I cannot have any at all of the addictive substance - sugar. I need total abstinence for life. The alcoholic doesn't have a gin on their birthday otherwise their life is over and they end up on the live transplant list in some cases and for hard core sugar addicts it is the same. Other people don't have the same genes/inclination to sugar addiction and can have days off, get out of ketosis, back into tasting the sugar taste and then simply spend a few days getting back into healthy eating again and it would not be the start of a slippery slope into addiction for them.

In those situations, I let go a bit. I figure eating well is a lifelong thing, and over a lifetime those occasional days of eating whatever the heck you want are not significant.

when I seriously low carbed I let loose a bit at the weekends, but you have to watch or it buggers up the workings of the diet.

I have LC all this week and I feel great..I KNOW that bread and pasta just doesn't suit me, and am determined not to fall off the wagon this time!

It depends how strict you are being the rest of the time. If you are on BIWI's boot camp or another very restricted phase where you are trying to get into ketosis and eating lots of fat too, any deviation will mean it doesn't work as pure eating both fat and carbs (bad combo!)

If you're just generally cutting carbs and eating a balance of other foods with a view to losing weight more gradually then a little bit of cake would probably be okay a one-off, as long as you won't then have another piece later just because it's still his birthday, and then a bit the next day "to save it going to waste" etc!

Pure=you're!

I tend to fall off the wagon on Sundays. DS loves to bake and I love to eat puddings/cakes.

I probably have a very carby/cheaty day about 3 times a fortnight on average. When I cheat I really cheat and I thoroughly enjoy it! But I find I reach a point where I've had enough. For example on DSs birthday and the day after I had probably 5 slices of cake and I loved every bite.....but after that I'd had enough and started craving salty stuff.

I fluctuate by a couple of pounds either way from time to time but on the whole as long as I LC during the week I've found I can relax at weekends without putting weight on.

I've found this diet to be far more forgiving than I expected.

I've found the same, Calamity. Weekend cheat days don't seem to make a difference (except Easter which turned into a cheat week)

Oh thats really reasurring Calamity because just ate two slivers of birthday cake!

I feel ridiculously sick now - SO much icing!

I have been going by the BIWI rules, but kept sugar in my tea. In turn, I havent had high fats, I figure the two together wouldnt bode well and I lost 3, nearly 4lb this week.

So hopefully the cake indulgence (Im seriously regretting it right now!) wont knock me too much off kilter.

In fairness, if you've left sugar in your tea and you're not eating high amounts of fat, you're not really doing boot camp!

Probably you're having a lower calorie intake than usual and that's why you've lost weight. A piece of cake won't make much difference then, as long as calories are still low.

If you want to do boot camp, you need to follow all the rules or it doesn't work after the first few weeks!