Personal anecdote: I just started a ~30-50g carb a day diet 15 days ago. I had maybe 2 days of withdrawal from all the sugar/carbs I used to consume, but afterwards had way more energy than I ever did in recent memory. (Assuming you eat the right amount of fat/protein.) After 2 weeks I've also lost 10 lbs (4.53 kg). I recommend everyone give it a try to see how it changes your daily routine and general sense of health.
I've done that a number of times, and I always feel like I have more energy, lose weight, etc. It's fantastic.
But the problem is, carbs are so damned tasty. I always wind up starting to eat a few french fries, a piece of croissant in the morning, a bit of crusty baguette, a bit of cherry pie, a homemade chocolate-chip cookie, a buttered toasted English muffin, a waffle, kettle potato chips, a hamburger with bun, a slide of brick oven thin-crust pizza...
...and pretty soon you're back to where you were before. I eat a lot less carbs now than I used to, and make sure they always have high fat content so I eat less (lots of olive oil on bread/pizza, cookies with lots of butter, etc.), and also try to make sure they're tasty enough to be worth it.
But it's really hard to say no to so many of the delicious things out there!
Dude....carb-cycling! Seriously, this is the way to go. This one variant of the carb-cycling I used to cut down for various reason (mentioned earlier in the post).
What I do: 6.5 days of VLC (Very Low Carb) of just protein+fat+green veggies (my typical meal is eggs, bacon and broccoli), less than 30g. On the 7th day, I go carb nuts at night, 2-3 hrs before bed. I don't limit carbs in this to low-GI, either, I eat what I want. I just make sure to get quality protein and keep it low fat as well.
As an added bonus, on the 7th day, just before I go carb nuts, I hit the gym and really, really blast whatever body part I want to see grow. The carbs I consume later are going to spike my insulin so if I make sure my body is primed to actually use the insulin spike, I can actually grow a bit of muscle. BONUS!
That's usually the case. Colloquially known as the paleo diet.
The same as our ancestors did for tens of thousands of years. Remember, dense carbohydrates like wheat and carb-rich potatoes are a very recent phenomenon in human history.
I'm curious, where are you getting 30,000 years from?
From what I know, any kind of significant flour processing arose together with the agricultural revolution, which produces large quantities of wheat for the first time. The agricultural revolution started around 12,000 years ago (but then still had to spread), and Wikipedia mentions:
"It was discovered around 6000 BC that wheat seeds could be crushed between simple millstones to make flour."
In widespread evolutionary terms, we've only been generally been eating flour for a few thousand years.
Homo sapiens has been around for 200k years, but that is just the tip of the iceberg of the much longer evolutionary process that led to us. We and our ancestors have been eating meats, fats, fruits and vegetables for millions of years.
So our high-carbohydrate flour-eating diet is certainly a sudden and recent disruption of our diet, and it is reasonable to expect that there's no way that, in just 100-200 human generations, the gene makeup of homo sapiens could so quickly adapt in a healthy way to such a drastically different diet.
Yes, e.g. breakfast: 3 fried eggs, 2 links of sausage (or bacon) plus a load of vegetables. Snacks are things like a small handful of nuts, berries, avocado, 4% one-serving packs of cottage cheese, etc. Lots of steaks, chicken, turkey and lots of vegetables. To me, it's a great diet because you eat a lot of great tasting food!
