exactly,
personally, I prefer to low carb simply because eating bread, cakes, rice, pasta and (to a lesser extent) potato, puts my glucose levels up to high.
It isn't (for me) about the evils of sugar, yada yada, it is simply that I feel better without the carbs.
and to be brutally honest with myself, I cut the carbs down as little as possible. I know that I have eaten too many when my knees ache, my concentration deteriorates, I retain water, and my blood glucose is higher than I want. Those checks and balances allow me to eat dark chocolate, masses of veg, some fruit, meat, fish, some dairy, and some grains like barley, rye, millet, in small quantities.mmMy treats are coffee with cream, cheese, choc, home baked low carb cakes. I've been doing this for years, so I don't carb count. but I do check my blood several times a day, and if I go too high one day (because I splurge and have a sandwich, or a cake at work, or we go out for a meal), I do it in moderation and end up cutting back hard the next day, to give my body time to recover. Nowadays, I barely even have to think about it.
Ages ago, I read a book about a diabetes, written by a very successful low carber. her advice was to simple - you are going to fail. sooner or later, no matter how strict you are, how zealous you feel, whether it takes 5 days or 5 years, sooner or later you WILL fall head first into a bowl of pasta, sending your blood glucose into the stratosphere. lol. So she suggested that you invest a little time in finding out how much carbohydrate you CAN eat, and enjoy that. then, when you eventually fall into that carb-fest, you just pick yourself up and go back to an eating regime that works and that gives you food you enjoy.
Hope that helps.
