Carbs are Awesome
Carbohydrates are awesome. Cutting carbs or following a low carb diet is a fabulous predictor of feeling out of control with or addicted to them.
Because carbs are your brain and body's primary fuel source, ALL foods, barring meat and fat, contain them.
This is very much on purpose.
The brain is wired to seek out carbohydrates if they’re in low supply. Carbs are essential for preventing blood sugar from dropping too low. When that occurs, the brain secretes messengers that drive us to consume high-carbohydrate foods, without discretion.
Food addiction research is based exclusively on starved rodents.
That’s it.
Am I saying that you might not experience a particular call for high carb foods? Particularly if they’ve been limited or have had rules built around them?
Of course not.
That’s normal.
That’s expected.
And that doesn’t need to be the end of the story. Permission to experiment with incorporation of carbohydrates, regularly, many times per day, daily, forever, granted. It’s likely that you’ll feel that you’ve messed up, that you’re doing something wrong, at the start.
This means you’re in it. Stay.
