tuesdayschild

Hello again.

I'm on day 6 (almost a week!) and am craving carbs like crazy. Anything bready/pasta-y/potato-y/starchy and it's making me nuts, since I usually try to stick to a low-carb diet with no refined "white" stuff.

Is this part of the detox? Will it go away? Has anyone else encountered this?

Any input appreciated.

Thank you!

DoubleBarrel

Alcohol = sugar.

You will crave all kinds of things in early recovery. Just don't drink.

Worry about the other stuff later. Enjoy the carbs.

biminiblue

Yes. Normal.

Detox diets are recommended to be high in carbs. You can Google that, I did when I was going to quit drinking.

Alcohol is a sugar. You need to replace it in order to get off it. Low carb diets are notorious for irritability in general. Not a good idea for detox.

Go back to your lower carb plan in a month or so.

First things first.

veryready

Super common. Sweet tooth in high gear. You're on the right track. Man I ate a ton of cookies and coffee in the first few weeks.

tuesdayschild

Thank you all. That makes me feel a ton better. I just know that if I start gaining a ton of weight, I'll be unhappy which will, in turn, feed into the very things that made me drink in the first place.

But you are all right, first things first. And sobriety is more important right now. Thank you again.

biminiblue

You won't gain in a month. Think of all the carbs you were drinking (alcohol is pure carbs.)

The cravings lessen in a few weeks, so you'll be able to go back to your limited breads/potatoes/sugars - no worries!

Jupiters

I was a carb eating machine. It passes
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LadyBlue0527

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patricia68

I lived on cake for the first two weeks

DoubleBarrel

A pound is 3000 calories.

You should not gain a ton of weight unless you REALLY go nuts.

Plus, alcohol has a lot of calories too. Don't put the cart before the horse here. You'll be ok.

Rar

I'm almost 4 months in and I'm still carb crazy.

Hawk07

Haha! that made me chuckle. That's better than what most of our 'diets' probably were prior to sobriety. At least I can speak for myself.

Be kind to yourself in the first few days especially. Eat what you crave. I'm just at 2 weeks and gradually substituting fruit for all the refined sugars, but I'd eat a gallon of ice cream and a whole cake anytime before I took a drink.