Unlike all the other types of nutrients, you will never find a minimum daily requirement for carbohydrates. The shocking fact is: you don’t need ANY! Absolutely ALL the carbohydrates your body needs can be derived by your body from digested fats and proteins — the body is an amazing molecular assembly factory. I’d like the carbohydrate promoters to put THAT in their collective pipe and smoke it.

I cannot say the same for low fat.

But I had the same problem that you read about in these blogs – when you hit your goal what do you do? I gained it all back after using any of several diets.

With Atkins I went to my favorite steak place and finally had some of the warm bread that they put in front of me. Carbs crept in little by little and I gained weight.

Substitute fat grams for carbs and you have the reason I lost ground on the low fat diet.

Plain and simple, diets that require that I eat in a style that does not make sense to my palate are abandoned at some point in time.

I also had to realize that I eat too much. I calculated the calories in what I eat – no wonder I weigh so much! I don’t eat that much as compared to folks I know, but I have been eating too much.

Now I plan my day and how many calories/fat/fiber I am consuming. The weight is coming off and I get bread and cookies once in a while!