Nice to meet you all!
My favorite LC myth I've seen around here is that LC makes you tired and sick. How stupid. When I did even EXTREME low carb, I felt absolutely fine, in fact I felt better than usual. I am an avid exerciser, and I was able to work out with no problem whatsoever. What a stupid load of crap.

Absolutely! I feel tired and fatigued when I am eating carbs!! It's a shame that the majority of society have bee brain-washed into this hogwash. There are a lot of over-weight people who give up because their diets don't work eating "healthy". Even doctors are in denial that low carb is an answer for some people. I am just lucky that my doctor has a sister that is obese and insulin resistant and her only solution to lose weight was low carb - so, my GP supports what I am doing and my dietician is guiding me.

Still, I have bad thyroid issues and I'm not losing like many do on low carb -- but it's ok -- I am losing - just slower than most.

OMG I could not agree with you all more!! When I have my "cheat" day and enjoy something like french fries or pizze I regret it so bad the next day I feel so good on low carb lots of energy to play with my son after working 10 hours!!!

What I just LOVE are the people who ask if we've got some medical condition that requires us to restrict our carbs, as if that's the only acceptable reason.

This is my favorite one and it comes up EVERY EFFING TIME.

Grains make me feel like *kitten*. I don't need a note from my doctor or a pubmed study to justify why I don't eat them. Drives me up the wall.

It's a lifestyle choice, so what?

Me too! Donuts are like poison to me...give me the worst heartburn but I can eat bacon and spicy food all day long and it does not bother me a bit!

It's ridiculous on the forums. I posted a Primal Blueprint question awhile back asking for only people doing the Primal Blueprint to comment and had a TON of nasty people comment. Most of which are still overweight anyway. Hmm. Ironic. lol

Yeah, that thread in particular was ridiculous. At least it helped me connect with some Primal peeps like you even with the trolls in full effect.

I really know after trying almost every other type of diet out there, that low carb just works for me. I am currenrly following South Beach, which I had done before a few years ago and lost 30 pounds. I just hit my 30 pound loss again today due to low carb eating. I am hoping to lose another 85 pounds and I know I will with keeping it low carb. And it is totally true about cheating with bread or french fries and then feeling awful the next day. I don't think anyone should have to explain their personal choice of what type of eating plan works for them. To each their own. As long as you are not supporting an eating disorder, everyone's needs are unique.

Hey Everyone! I'm new-ish to this group as well and thought I'd chime in (even though I'm kinda late). I rarely ever say anything on the boards bc I'm afraid of what people will respond with regarding my LC choice. We all are different; we have different needs, different doctor's orders, etc. If I'm asking a specific question, I want an answer to that question, not that I'm doing something wrong! I'm LC'ing because I have diabetes, and I want to live to have children and be healthy, not because I want to lose 100 lbs in a month and cave in to "fad" diets. People really need to relax on these forums, because it's not motivational at all to ask a question and get ripped apart for the decisions I make.

/end rant

My advice for questions is to ask them on your wall if you are friends with several LC'er's as well as on these LC specific forums. I get a lot of great advice from my friends on here!

We all just need to suddenly stop calling it LC and switch to LOW GLYCEMIC! Will they whine then?

I agree!

Hi -- I'm new here. I have had PCOS for over 10 years. So happy to have found this group!

We all just need to suddenly stop calling it LC and switch to LOW GLYCEMIC! Will they whine then?

Another term I read recently dubbed it "low insulin", rather than LC. Because it's the insulin, esp insulin spike, that's bad!

oops I think I posted on the wrong topic! :blushing:

I expect I'll soon find my way around here, lol! :laugh:

What I just LOVE are the people who ask if we've got some medical condition that requires us to restrict our carbs, as if that's the only acceptable reason.

This is my favorite one and it comes up EVERY EFFING TIME.

Grains make me feel like *kitten*. I don't need a note from my doctor or a pubmed study to justify why I don't eat them. Drives me up the wall.

It's a lifestyle choice, so what?

Me too! Donuts are like poison to me...give me the worst heartburn but I can eat bacon and spicy food all day long and it does not bother me a bit!

Oh my gosh! It wasn't till after switching to low carb I realized what Carbs really did to me. I would eat a doughnut and have the WORST heartburn ever! but I would blame it on the coffee, or something else. The Doughnut was never the cause. Now I know the truth! I LOVE LOW CARB EATING!

Couldn't agree more. They are usually thinking about low carb/low fat -- which is somewhat dangerous. But Low Carb, Moderate Protein and High Fat is the combination that will drive your body to burn fat as fuel.

If they bug you, tell them to read "Why we get fat and what to do about it" by Gary Traube. It's *not* a diet book -- it's a scientific/research book that contains all the statistics about low carb dieting and why calories in/calories out doesn't work for at least 50% of overweight people.

If you are losing weight on the standard, so-called healthy diet - containing fruit, veggies, whole grains, etc. that's great. But if you can't lose weight on that type of diet than low carb is your alternative.

Exactly!!!

RANT AHEAD

I'm actually starting to find that it's not worth me reading anything other than the Success threads. Yesterday I came across a thread where someone asks what to say to a colleague who's trying to steal her weightloss thunder. The poster is losing weight what she calls "the right way" (low cal and exercise, I suppose), but this nasty colleague is low carbing and losing weight faster than she is.

The thread is PAGES long and full of people offering mean things to say to the low-carb woman, catty remarks and put-downs. Loads of stuff on how she's on a "fad diet" that "won't last" and she'll "gain it all back".

Then there's this rant thread where a guy goes on about how people losing weight should eat "normally". His point is that people can eat whatever they want in moderation and shouldn't listen to people who tell them to "eat clean". There follows a slew of responses saying yeah, I eat fries and pizza and milkshakes and ice cream and still lose weight, and stopping eating them is unnatural and unsustainable and blah blah blah. All I see is a bunch of sugar addicts defending their habit- that was me less than a year ago! Can't live without ice cream. Any diet that cuts out a food group is unhealthy (as if sugar is a food group!). Ugh. When did we decide that food made in a factory out of manmade chemicals is natural and OK? Weird. Depressing.

I feel more and more like an outlier on MFP. It now seems patently obvious to me that this way of eating is, for a lot of people, the best, easiest, and most painless way to lose weight and get healthy. I don't WANT to eat pizza and doughnuts anymore, and I was the pizza queen before. I don't feel deprived, and I certainly don't feel hungry. I realise I will have to stay moderately low carb forever to maintain the weight loss, and I'm perfectly fine with that. Does anyone on any diet really think they can just go back to how they ate before and be OK?

I did post it somewhere, but it bears repeating: increasingly, I feel like it is impossible to explain to people who don't need this kind of diet just what a miracle it is for those who do need it. My partner has not gained or lost a pound in 20 years. He can eat mounds of mashed potato washed down with ginger soda or beer. He will never understand what it is to be carb sensitive, to blow up like a whale when you so much as look at sugar, and he certainly will never know the happiness that I feel now I'm off the sugar rollercoaster. That's why I don't argue back on MFP- some people will never get it. In my opinion, they should just be thankful they don't *need* to get it, and shut up.

I think it's funny that when we say "I don't eat flour or sugar" it's "crazy" but it's totally normal for someone to say "I could not LIVE without [pasta][cookies][chips][popcorn][sweets]!"

Like...really? You are that addicted to a food that your life would not be worth living if you had to go without it? And I am crazy? Yeah.

RANT AHEAD

I'm actually starting to find that it's not worth me reading anything other than the Success threads. Yesterday I came across a thread where someone asks what to say to a colleague who's trying to steal her weightloss thunder. The poster is losing weight what she calls "the right way" (low cal and exercise, I suppose), but this nasty colleague is low carbing and losing weight faster than she is.

The thread is PAGES long and full of people offering mean things to say to the low-carb woman, catty remarks and put-downs. Loads of stuff on how she's on a "fad diet" that "won't last" and she'll "gain it all back".

Then there's this rant thread where a guy goes on about how people losing weight should eat "normally". His point is that people can eat whatever they want in moderation and shouldn't listen to people who tell them to "eat clean". There follows a slew of responses saying yeah, I eat fries and pizza and milkshakes and ice cream and still lose weight, and stopping eating them is unnatural and unsustainable and blah blah blah. All I see is a bunch of sugar addicts defending their habit- that was me less than a year ago! Can't live without ice cream. Any diet that cuts out a food group is unhealthy (as if sugar is a food group!). Ugh. When did we decide that food made in a factory out of manmade chemicals is natural and OK? Weird. Depressing.

I feel more and more like an outlier on MFP. It now seems patently obvious to me that this way of eating is, for a lot of people, the best, easiest, and most painless way to lose weight and get healthy. I don't WANT to eat pizza and doughnuts anymore, and I was the pizza queen before. I don't feel deprived, and I certainly don't feel hungry. I realise I will have to stay moderately low carb forever to maintain the weight loss, and I'm perfectly fine with that. Does anyone on any diet really think they can just go back to how they ate before and be OK?

I did post it somewhere, but it bears repeating: increasingly, I feel like it is impossible to explain to people who don't need this kind of diet just what a miracle it is for those who do need it. My partner has not gained or lost a pound in 20 years. He can eat mounds of mashed potato washed down with ginger soda or beer. He will never understand what it is to be carb sensitive, to blow up like a whale when you so much as look at sugar, and he certainly will never know the happiness that I feel now I'm off the sugar rollercoaster. That's why I don't argue back on MFP- some people will never get it. In my opinion, they should just be thankful they don't *need* to get it, and shut up.

I could have written that post myself! :flowerforyou:

I think I saw this post too...and while it's okay that the person posted it, I have to keep in mind that for myself, that advice is pishposh. I went out and bought a tub of nutella and some white bread. I've been eating sandwiches all week. I haven't felt sicker! I need to get back on the horse so to speak. It's okay if i have what I want like once a week or less, but daily? come on!