u/Cheap-Mammoth-9212

Hi all,

31M, 183cm (6ft), 87kg (190lbs). GW 75kg (165lbs).

I’ve struggled severely with my weight my entire life. I lost 25kg when I was 16 through calorie restriction and running, and it gave me my life back. Since then I regained that weight twice, first time due to diet and second time due to antidepressants (no longer on these).

I’ve had an issue with binge eating for as long as I can remember. I’ve been doing keto on and off for years - when I can stay on it, I lose weight, my mental health improves and my physical health improves significantly too - but I find the thought of “being on keto” sends me on a “last supper” binge.

For example, yesterday I ate 100g of carbs. This was pretty scary for me. I started searching the internet for people’s experiences of keto and binge eating, I ended up on the keto subreddit, found the general consensus was “carb restriction ended my bingeing”, so instead of going to the gym like I was planning to I ended up bingeing on 3,000 calories of carbs as a “last supper” - “keto starts tomorrow”.

It’s really complicated because I do live with chronic fatigue and exhaustion, and I know that deep therapeutic ketosis helps me here. I just don’t know if the thoughts of restriction are driving worse binges.

I did BED therapy 2 years ago, and while it brought my bignes down from 3-4k calories to around 500, I ended up going back on keto because the fatigue had gotten so bad out of ketosis.

Has anybody here experienced restrictive dieting driving binge eating behaviour? Or do I just accept I’m a carb addict and abstinence is the only way through?

Thank you.

I’m sure lots of us ended ketogenic because we can’t manage our relationship with carbs. One is too many and never enough.

Why do the other subs such as loseit insist that if you have to restrict carbs to be healthy, you have an eating disorder such as orthorexia?

It’s exhausting. I see all these stories of people who have lost significant weight while eating carbs. I wish that was me…

EDIT: Thanks everyone for all of your support and your encouragement and guidance. I’ve been on keto on and off for years but previously I would just abandon it when travelling or eating out. But I’m trying to improve my mental health and I know ketosis does help a lot, so I’m trying to be consistent with it.

And thanks to the mods for removing the very small minority of negative comments. Before you comment on somebody else’s struggles, take a moment to remember the reasons that brought you to r/keto in the first place.

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Hi all,

31M, 6ft, 85kg.

I’ve had issues with food my whole life. Gaining and losing 60lbs multiple times.

I’ve learned that keto/carnivore is the best way for me to eat for energy, general health, and of course weight maintenance. When I fall off keto I binge for weeks on end and gain 5-10lbs each time. I also have pretty bad mental health challenges which do improve on a keto diet.

My main issue with keto is my partner doesn’t eat low carb at all. She’s very metabolically healthy and doesn’t get much food noise, so she eats mixed meals.

I find it very stressful to try and eat out, and I usually end up freaking out and abandoning the idea, which is causing a huge rift between us. It’s getting to the point where going out for the day is becoming extremely stressful when it comes to finding food to eat.

I don’t want to quit keto, but I really cannot cope with this stress anymore. I’m also severely experiencing diarrhea for months on end, painful urgent diarrhea every time I eat.

Any support would be greatly appreciated