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<blockquote data-quote="CherryAA" data-source="post: 1624865" data-attributes="member: 327005"><p>Sure, happy to chat privately. </p><p></p><p>I do think that one thing that people don't realise in all this is that when one talks about lowering carbs because it works, it seems a bit like one is peddling some magic potion. </p><p></p><p>We have all been told the same mantra for so long - a calorie is a calorie, eat less, move more and you will lose weight. Neither of these take into account the fact that not eating carbs is just "qualitatively different" not only in reducing blood sugar, but in the way your actual body responds to feeling hungry . </p><p></p><p>I spent most of my life on a low calorie diet starvingly hungry, today eating those very same level of calories I can not be hungry at all - that seems like a total magic trick as does the fact that once the body has got used to the low carb approach, simply not eating actually becomes viable. Whenever they do these studies showing that the difference between the two approaches is small when eating the same number of calories, it completely fails to take into account just how much easier it is to restrict total calories when your body is not screaming " eat something signals" all day long. I'm still not slim, maybe I never will be, but for the very first time in my life food no longer dominates my thoughts. I hope you can get to that position too.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CherryAA, post: 1624865, member: 327005"] Sure, happy to chat privately. I do think that one thing that people don't realise in all this is that when one talks about lowering carbs because it works, it seems a bit like one is peddling some magic potion. We have all been told the same mantra for so long - a calorie is a calorie, eat less, move more and you will lose weight. Neither of these take into account the fact that not eating carbs is just "qualitatively different" not only in reducing blood sugar, but in the way your actual body responds to feeling hungry . I spent most of my life on a low calorie diet starvingly hungry, today eating those very same level of calories I can not be hungry at all - that seems like a total magic trick as does the fact that once the body has got used to the low carb approach, simply not eating actually becomes viable. Whenever they do these studies showing that the difference between the two approaches is small when eating the same number of calories, it completely fails to take into account just how much easier it is to restrict total calories when your body is not screaming " eat something signals" all day long. I'm still not slim, maybe I never will be, but for the very first time in my life food no longer dominates my thoughts. I hope you can get to that position too. [/QUOTE]
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