Perhaps I should have put it better and said for some but not all to many carbs can be the problem for weight gain it is metabolism which is different for different people. When I say a normal amount of carbs I suppose I really go on what I and my family ate which was what I would call moderate amounts of things like bread, potatoes and sweet stuff but not big portions When I bought my family up in the 60/70's there was no fast foods or takeaways..except fish and chips which were an occasional big treat... so no burgers, pizza or pasta which people now love to eat and are very carby. Meals were cooked from scratch and puddings and cake were for Sundays we ate the way most families did then.
Thank you.
That kind of highlights what i was thinking.
Basically, the amount of carbs that you mention in a ‘normal’ 60/70s family is actually significantly more carb than I was brought up with. We had no sugar in the house. No bread (my mother was intolerant of wheat). I only tasted chips once a year on holiday, and battered fish was the same. Jam was offered to guests, not us. And we only had puddings on Sundays (until yogurt arrived. We were given that more often.
So
much less carbohydrate than you describe - yet it was still ‘too much’ for me.
Just goes to show that different people have different capacities for carbohydrate, doesn’t it? It would appear that I am more carb intolerant than you, since I became T2 in my 40s even eating
less carbohydrate than you throughout my life. Yet we both developed T2 eventually - suggesting that we were
both eating more carbs than our bodies could cope with.