Carbohydrates make you SKINNY!

[Regina]

My mother taught me the exact same thing! Say nothing if you can’t say anything nice.

[smsherbert]

I would have rolled my eyes so hard I would’ve pulled a muscle!

[Daves_Not_Here]

The following foods are NOT carbs, but FAT foods (as they contain around 50% of their calories from fat) and that’s why they make you fat: cakes, donuts, biscuits, pastries, pizza, et cetera.
Eat low fat, high carb, high fibre plant foods and watch yourself transform in time.

I actually don’t think this is as far off as it sounds. The people I know who eat “low fat, high carb, high fibre plant foods” are skinny. These foods don’t spike insulin that much, and there isn’t much fat to shunt to storage in the cells.

I’m thinking she got the donuts half right: the highly refined carbs in the flour spike insulin and drive the fat to storage in the cells, while increasing cravings. She just missed the role of the carbs.

In other words, High Glycemic Load Carb High Fat is worse than Low Glycemic Load Carb Low Fat.

[grinch734]

If you have the genetics, metabolism, or are an endurance athlete carbs are fine. Most people don’t have these traits.

[OldDoug]

𝕎𝕙𝕠 𝕣𝕦𝕟 𝕓𝕒𝕣𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕥𝕠𝕨𝕟?

[Chris_W]

If you have the genetics, metabolism, or are an endurance athlete carbs are fine. Most people don’t have these traits.

Even then it might not be “fine”. You might just be able to get away with it for longer.

Tim Noakes was a lean, healthy high-carb, endurance runner. He researched and supported high-carb refueling for athletes. He wrote the runner’s “bible”, ‘The Lore of Running’. Then later in life, his high-carb diet caught up with him and he got T2D, which he only “cured” through LCHF.

[Saphire]

I actually don’t think this is as far off as it sounds. The people I know who eat “low fat, high carb, high fibre plant foods” are skinny. These foods don’t spike insulin that much, and there isn’t much fat to shunt to storage in the cells.

Your acquaintance has a point, in that carbohydrate combined with fat is a deadly combination. As Dr. Robert Lustig points out, there are very few foods in nature (milk being one of them) that contain both fat and carbohydrate. HCHF is the worst possible diet combination.

One thing I read recently is that LFHC tends to work if the fat is less than 10% of the calories, and likewise LCHF, if the carbs are similarly low. Anything in between tends to cause trouble

Exactly what I heard too. Interesting point about nature not combining fat and sugar in the same food. Does make me question the value of milk if you are not an infant or baby cow

[enzoluca]

I think Halo has a point.

Keto is great in that it get’s you off the junk food. In the 1970’s most folks cooked at home. Cue the 1980’s and fast food, eating out and convenience foods exploded. Add in frankenfoods and super -sizing plus less moving around. Eat whole, real foods, cook at home, move around, quit thinking you are a snowflake and that Keto is a religion you must follow to a T. If you want to lose the weight in the long term make sure you are in a caloric deficit that works for you. Stop chugging butter and fat bombs.

[pamplemousse]

lking about it when I found others to relate to. She was sitting beside the people I was talking to. Guess she was paying attention.) What would you say?

I was HCLF, mostly vegetarian, for a couple of years a few years ago. I was skinny, and I was depressed, had anxiety, constantly snacking on vegetables, constantly hangry, constantly bloated, and this way of eating was difficult socially.