Sally McKenzie wrote:I have been FF for 3 months, maybe a bit more. Have lost heaps of weight, feel awesome, no cravings (apart from that initial week or 2), don't really have any issues on eating 'the old food' when out. BUT, I have noticed this week I have not lost any weight, bla don't really care about that, but I have found my stomach is all bloated, don't feel so comfortable in my clothes, my sweet cravings are crazy (though haven't gone off and eaten anything with fructose but have eaten almost a whole jar of home made nutella) and generally feel a little ho hum. Am wondering if it's a 3 month mark type thing, my body adjusting, hormonal maybe? Anyone else felt like this?

Sally

Hello Sally
I did experience exactly the same as you. I lost a good amount of weight initially, and then after three months the sugar cravings came back.

My experience was this: After about two months, I started having a desert every now and again, made with dextrose. Then I made biscuits for my husband, again with dextrose and at first, ignored them preferring to have carbs, but stay sweetener - free.
I found, after a while that having a biscuit or two began to creep in. As the weeks went on, I found myself wanting more and more biscuits and then we had friends come to stay and I packed in a few more carbs with them.

By three months, I had put on a little bit of weight and my cravings were such that I was eating spoonfuls of dextrose every day as well as the biscuits.
After the friends went home, I decided to go completely carb free. No bread or porridge in the morning, no sandwich for lunch and no pasta or potatoes at night, and definitely none of my husband's biscuits. No sweetened things at all.

It has only taken a week, I have lost all my cravings and lost the little bit of weight I put on. I plan to have one more week completely carb free and then will aim to be an "only savory eater" except for those rare, special occasions when I have friends come over for lunch and will be making a dextrose sweetened desert and I will have only a small portion. It seems that, for me, having anythings sweet, even though not fructose, sets up these cravings. Funnily enough, having a piece of fruit in the morning doesn't set them off, so it seems that they only occur when I eat dextrose sweetened carbs.

Now, I assume that your home made Nutella is made with dextrose, but maybe you could try what I have done and cut out carbs and anything sweet for a couple of weeks and see how you go.

If you find, like I do, that a carb free diet gives you problems with daily "inner workings", I take Psylim capsules with my bacon and egg breakfast and this gives me the fiber I need. I do eat a lot of vegetables with lunch and dinner and this gives extra fiber too.

I don't know if this will solve it for you, but maybe give it a try and see what happens.