I'm getting more into the idea of eating low carb again. There are a lot of pluses to maintaining a low carb diet. One of them is simplicity. One the one hand, it might feel like deprivation because you've eliminated such a multitude of foods, but the flip side of that is that it's much easier to make choices. You don't have to think about whether something is a good deal, or if it's healthy. You don't even have to begin to sift through the marketing claims of whatever food product, because you only have one criteria to measure. Is it low carb? No? Then get outta my face.
Once you wrap your head around the idea that high carb food is unhealthy, it's like you're a Food Terminator. You have to switch on your google vision and check the food's metrics. Does it measure up as edible, or will it be red flagged - toxic.
I'm getting into the groove of things. In the beginning, I'll be doing a lot of measuring and blood testing, figuring out how my body responds to different levels and kinds of carbohydrates. I'm finding it alternately tedious and interesting tracking my foods and blood sugar levels so meticulously. I feel like I'm my own science experiment. I expect this degree of attention will wane as I learn how my body responds to the changes.
And actually, it was a segment on 60 minutes last week that got the whole low carb business rolling with me again. Robert Lustig - Is Sugar Toxic?
I almost deleted the show without watching, and I'm so glad I didn't.
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