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Low-carb diets

The source of the carb?

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HeyJules · 21/05/2014 11:38

How important is it that our carbs are just "good carbs"? (So vegetables basically) The maximum I allow myself a day is 40g but I usually end up

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HeyJules · 22/05/2014 00:27

Aaaanyone have any insight?

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Fourarmsv2 · 22/05/2014 07:07

P3 on the Harcombe diet classes any mixing carbs & fat as cheating. But you can cheat - just not too much and not too often.

Try it and see perhaps?

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ChunkyPickle · 22/05/2014 07:22

well, every now and then it would be fine, but if you did it every day you'd start having digestive issues because you need the veggies for roughage to.. err.. help everything pass through......

Long term you'd be missing out on nutrients too.

I knew someone who low carbed just eating cheese and meat (despite seeing how DP and I did it with plenty of veg etc.) and he wasn't looking very well 2 weeks into it.

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ChunkyPickle · 22/05/2014 07:24

Oh, what I meant to also say is that the reason they are 'good' carbs is because of what else is in them, and nothing to do with the carbs really - well.

Actually that's not entirely true either - obviously the carbs in veggies are kinda baffled by everything around them, rather than the carbs in sugar which are pure and direct so they work faster - I always found when low carbing that I got drunk faster, and that if I had something sugary it almost made me feel a bit high because I'd become so unused to it.

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JaneParker · 22/05/2014 16:11

If all you are trying to do is to lose weight than anything which results in your eating fewer calories will lose you the weight.

If you want good eating habits for life (and think sugar is almost a kind of poison) then cake should be utterly out for life. You just lose the taste for it. It's totally empty calories. What is the point in having it?

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