That is a very good point, how boring would it be if we only ate and drank what was "necessary" for us?
I think generally that most people try to make healthy choices wherever possible but it has to be said that those who believe that a lchf diet is the best healthy option are in a very small minority, despite how loudly they speak and how frequently they post the same messages.
I believe that as diabetics we need to adopt a lifestyle that we can sustain for the rest of our lives not a quick fix highly restrictive diet that is hard to stick with that we fail at at every turn. If you think that a lchf diet is the best way and you can stick with it for the rest of your life then thats great but why do so many post that they have fallen off the wagon?
Im just asking is all.
I'm not sure that I have ever claimed that eating low carb is easy for me. I enjoy a lot of the foods I eat tremendously, but there are a lot of times that I would love to sink my gnashers into bread and other carbs. They taste nice. And if my BG dips too low it is an act of self discipline not to fall head first into the nearest lovely tea cake or sandwich. However, a few years of occupying my body, and a couple of years using a blood glucose monitor have very clearly demonstrated that my body cannot tolerate all those lovely carbs.
I do fall of the wagon occasionally. One of the reasons that carbs don't work for me is that they set off a spiralling series of BG fluctuations and food cravings - think of an addiction like alcoholism. Except that a recovering alcoholic does not have to drink small amounts of alcohol in nearly every meal. So they don't have to constantly monitor the level at which 'a little' becomes 'a little too much' - and the carb cravings emerge.
Of course, I'm not expecting you to understand this, or sympathise. We all have different physical reactions to carbs and if you don't experience what I have just described, then you probably reject the idea. I'm used to that. If I had a penny for every high carb eating person who has lectured me on how I need to grow some self discipline... Nowadays I just laugh.
Luckily, I am naturally try to look for the positives. I'm actually quite pleased for people who can eat carbs. I know that I would much rather be able to eat what I want (in moderation) but everybody's body chemistry is different. If they can eat carbs and have stable BG levels then that is a very good thing.
I must say that it is marvellous being part of a community on this forum where low carbing is openly and enthusiastically discussed. Advice is swapped, people are helped. Newbies are encouraged. If I can help someone to avoid the mistakes I made, then that is a good thing.
For years, low carbing was vilified in the media, treated with contempt as a fad diet, and to admit you didn't eat bread, pasta and potatoes was like admitting you sold your firstborn into slavery. Thankfully times have changed, the studies are piling up, and media attitudes are shifting.
I read this forum a while back a few years ago (3 years? Can't give a firm date) and left very quickly. Back in those days the low carbers were squelched regularly and quite unpleasantly. Some of the pro-carb posts were absurd. Thank goodness times have changed and there is now room on this forum for low carbers to have a voice, exchange ideas, advice and recipes.
More and more people are getting themselves BG monitors. Which means that each person can work out for themselves what eating pattern works for them personally. I think that the increase in low carb posters is a very positive sign - they can test, see if it works for them, stick with it if it does, or move on to try something else, if it doesn't. And of course, by doing that, the number of low carbers is growing, as more and more people find it works for them.
As with everything, the pendulum will swing from one side to another, for a while, before finding its natural balance. Not a bad thing.