Why are people promoting Low Carb Diets??

kafkathecat wrote: »

Ha ha! Sorry, I probably should have mentioned that I was a vegan for over 20 years, only eat wholefoods cooked from scratch and eat at table. No my problem is the overproduction of insulin. This makes you crave carbs even when your stomach is full and it is insulin which stores carbs as fat. Insulin production is stimulated by eating carbs so it becomes almost a vicious cycle. Obviously it is impossible to imagine if it does not happen to you.

This happens to me due to PCOS, only I never recognised it before. I knew (well this is what I'd read) I should try and eat low 'GI'. This always baffled me because i didn't cut out carbs, just ate what I thought were low GI breads etc and i still had carb highs and lows.


It is only recently, through the support and stories shared by others on here and reading lots, that I have realised (for me), it seems to ne physiological, more than psychological.