In reply to Sharp:
> (In reply to What Goes Up) Some quite good examples so far of how misunderstood carbs are. Fruit, beans, lentils, cereals, starchy veg - all good sources of carbohydrate so if you're cutting out carbs you can't eat them.
Thanks Ben. Sounds like it's not so much carbs as her interpretation of them I have to cut out then. I'll point all of this out to her and see how it goes down (knew that climbing helmet would come in handy one day). Frustratingly though I think it'll just mean a fortnight of roast chicken without the skin and boiled peas (do they count - they must fall into the bean / pulse bracket?)
> Take healthy things like whole grain cereals, legumes/pulses, root veg and fruit and get them off you're menu - fat, protein and the odd green vegetable and you have your low carb, low health diet right there. I guess it's goodbye to your butternut squash and cassoulet. Might want to stock up on loo roll while you're at it because toilet trips are going to be unpleasant.
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Bye-bye butternut squash I can live with. Shame about the cassoulet though - that was pretty much the only one I was excited about.
> Why not just reduce the portion size of high carb food on your plate and be healthy? You're putting your body into a shock, gut wrenching diet which will probably be followed by weight gain as soon as you start to reintroduce carbs into your diet again.
To paraphrase Captain Blackadder, we are not at home to Mr Logic here.