Question for my friends on Atkins.....

[patgund]

Is it possible to get sick or drunk feeling on a large amount of carbs after having not had many for a period of time?

Reason why is last night I had a lot of pasta, which was the first heavy-carb item I've really had in more than a week, (hey, I was somewhere with cheap steak and catfish, guess what I was eating). Afterwards I almost felt drunk or dizzy, which is not the usual reaction I have from pasta.

Comments

[dancing-star.livejournal.com]

I've never had that feeling, but I get ill and feel like I'm going to throw up if I get to many.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

I know when I have my comfort food cheese fondue - white sauce (milk, flour, butter) with cheese melted into it, and french bread - I can feel stoned afterwards. But I don't think that's any higher carb than my usual diet, since I don't do the low carb thing.

[morgan-gw.livejournal.com]

I think it's what your system gets used to. On our "controlled cheating" diet (which I may write up for the web since the book is out of print and the author died a few years back), we can have a certain # of calories each day with one day a week when we can pork out. We tend to a lot of pasta during the week, and then do things like burgers or chicken fettuccine or pizza on our "cheating day".

And we learned real fast how easy it is to over-stuff and make yourself sick when you've been "good" all week. Sometimes we even have sort of a food hangover the day after, which is why we don't shift cheating day from Sat to Sun without a real good reason -- Roland feels lousy having to go to work like that.

So I don't know that it's the massive carbs so much as it was the massive something-different (shrugs).

[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

Oh yes. Maybe not "drunk" or "dizzy" - but a sugar crash is unpleasant. A half hour or hour after eating it, I'm likely to feel tired, unfocused, and want nothing more than to go curl up somewhere and close my eyes.

FWIW, I'm on a "whole foods" eating regimen now, and I'm hoping to maintain it more-or-less permanently. The hyper brain thing is much less apparent, I'm more awake and alert during the entire day and don't tend to have a mid-afternoon crash.

[firecat]

Yes.

yup

[selenesue.livejournal.com]

Oh hell yes. We call it Carb Hangover. Not quite as painful or repugnant as the alcohol variety, but bad enow.

I'm back on the Low Carb now after a challenge from Miss Morgaine. Something about "if Lord of the Rings sweeps the Oscars, we go on The Diet." Sort of a quest... thing. Oy.

Love, S