Is low carb a meme?

Lost 60kg over two years, and have never felt better.
I'm back eating somewhere between keto and paleo now, though.

>>76293072 (OP)
Yes, a reddit meme to be exact. Keto died in the late 00s then was revived by reddit.

>>76293072 (OP)
No, it's a pretty decent option, all things considered.
A lot of people tend to over-indulge with carbs, and eat too much of that food group compared to other food groups. So quite a lot of people benefit from it because it makes their diet "healthier", as in better balanced.

You don't even need to cut carbs out completely, just reduce the doses.
Carbs are great for providing energy, and yet still are "empty calories", so don't lose any nutritional value by cuting them out, so compared to other food group restrctive diets, it's probably the best out there.

Cutting out protein is stupid.
Cutting out fiber is stupid.
Cutting out fat is stupid.
So just by comparison, cuttting out carbs is smart.

>>76293180
for me it's high carb omad b/c i love hunger

>>76293072 (OP)
Depends on how much cardio you do.
If fuck all sure go for it, but if it makes up more then 40/50% of your training then you would be really stupid to go low carb. If more then 50% you'll have to eat a lot of them.
The main reason why people like low carb diets is because they cannot handle themselves otherwise. They can't just have a bowl of pasta, they'll need two or three, topped of with dessert and a late night snack. This is especially a problem for fatties losing weight, because it is stupidly fucking easy to chow down sugary shit and carb sources loaded up with unhealthy fats like pizza. By just cutting out a significant portion of carbs and restricting their amount they can make very good beginner progres.

>>76293088
nice false flag, moxyte child. Enjoy diabetes stalker.

>>76293072 (OP)
Yes. It’s unhealthy. The brian needs carbs to function and muscle grow

>>76293072 (OP)
Always has been.

https://youtu.be/PRTrXXTgKLg?feature=shared&t=173

>>76293361
>muscle grow
good morning saar

Protein and fat make you feel fuller, in contrast if you just ate carbs (just for arguments sake) you would not feel full ever and your blood sugar would constantly go up and down.

I have never went full keto for more than some days here and there, but no carbs is a good _base_ for diet. But like someone already posted, if you do a lot of cardio or work really demanding physical job etc then you are not going to make it completely without carbs if you need like +5000kcal per day.

Also if you go no carbs or close to it, you get rid of most of brapping and you don't need to sit on toilet very often. It doesn't mean constipation or that you are dying, it's that you have to poop maybe once a day and it's over quickly so I don't see it as a downside. Maybe you get to read comics less sitting on toilet.

>>76293521
>there are people that shit more often than once a day
wtfp

>>76293536
wtf*>>76293521

>>76293083
>60kg in 2 years
how? I lost 7kg in a month. you must have been doing something wrong fatty

>>76293620
>Loses 60kg
>Still gets called a fatty
/fit/ is cursed

It could just be bullshit but I swear I experience less inflammation when I limit carbs

>>76293521
As always, the low-carb advocates always devolve into talking about poop.

>>76293503
Opposite for me
I only feel sated with carbs and eating fats causes me to go into an overdrive of ultra insatiable hunger

>>76293072 (OP)
High carb High protein Low fat is the ideal, as has been claimed for most of human history
Anything you can find a social media grifter promoting that isn't this is probably a meme

>>76293072 (OP)
yes its a meme, a balanced diet of meat veggies grains and a small amount of fruit is the only valid diet. oh and omad works too i guess. trust nothing else.

>>76294803
It also makes evolutionary sense, millions of years animals have been lean as fuck so if we get to eat animals they were mostly protein and since we thrive so much on carbs and modest fiber intake its safe to say we ate any carbs we could get our hands on

>>76293072 (OP)
Low carb is perfectly legitimate so long as you're not, say, working in manual labor.
Keto is legitimate as a short term diet specifically for weight loss, but shouldn't be done long term. I've currently been doing it for 35 days and lost 13lbs, but I'd rather not keep it up for more than maybe a couple weeks longer. It's really easy to fuck up your cholesterol.

As another anon said, it's a great option to break your addiction to carbs/sugar. Carbs alone aren't inherently evil, but everything is so fucking overloaded with carbs and sugar that just about everyone in the first world overindulges on them. It's a lot easier to live a healthy life eating <150g of carbs a day and a lot of fat/protein than it is to be healthy eating a donut/muffin, some sugary coffee drink, some soda, a sandwich, some candy, and a bowl of pasta or some pizza every day.

>>76294829
>le balanced
Just eat every food in the world, that would truly be balanced

>>76293072 (OP)
I gain weight when I eat high carb and lose weight when I eat low carb. It's as simple as that.

low carb is for fatasses where walking is exercise to them

anyone that's active at all needs glycogen

>>76295919
I don't like eating a shitload of meat and vegetables though so it's easier to get tired of eating on low carb therefore eating less. On the other hand I can easily eat 4000 calories of pizza or 2000 calories of mac and cheese.

>>76293620
>I lost 7kg in a month
Congratulations, you lost water weight. Literally the easiest weight to lose.
I think I was down 15kg the first month.

>>76293072 (OP)
You cant get enough protein on a cut unless you are low carb.

I have never felt worse in my life than when I was on a low-carb diet

>>76294830
Your view of history is radically biased and skewed to fit what you want to believe

>>76293072 (OP)
Yeah, all you gotta do is avoid refined carbohydrates.

>>76293332
eh you're kinda right but cutting carbs just kills your hunger completely, that's the main reason for it and that's why it helps so much
>lost 70kg in a year by doing that because it's easy as fuck doing CICO when you never feel hungry

>>76296980
For me what helped was to replace all sugary and pastry shit. Just focus on the good carbs, and severely limit the amount of whole grains bread and pasta.

>>76296813
>humans didn't eat primarily carbs and meat for their evolutionary history
Dumbfuck!

>>76296813
Its because what I believe makes sense, animals in the wild are LEAN, there is almost no fat on them, certainly no human in the history of humanity would have access to an all-fatty-meat diet
Humans have their peak performance on carbs, this is undeniable if you ever did any sports or exercise
Humans also get benefits from fiber, countless unbiased studies confirm that

So where was my view wrong?

>>76298005
>Its because what I believe makes sense
Yah thats exactly what I said. Didn't read the rest of the post.

>>76297975
>things nobody said

>>76298059
>No argument
Concession accepted

>>76298062
Learn to understand that not everything is a combat sport.