I walked into a Mexican restaurant the other day and saw they had a lo-carb menu item that they were promoting at the restaurant. Seriously, are people still on the lo-carb kick? Or are restaurants behind the times?

Of course people will lose weight on a low carb diet because how much meat can you really scarf down before you start gagging? A 3 ounce piece of chicken only has 120 calories. So of course folks lose weight because they are consuming less calories and getting full fast.

My fiance and I eat pasta almost every day and I have been at my lowest weight at 121 pounds for the last 5 years. The problem for many is that pasta is easier to eat then chewing a piece of meat 100 times before you swallow, allowing your stomach to feel full quicker. So since it’s easier to eat carbs and only takes a few chews, we tend to eat many more calories than eating meat.

Even if all you ate was broccoli, but ate 3000 calories of broccoli a day, you would still gain weight since it would be more calories than the normal person can process in a day. So lo carb isn’t the trick to weight loss, it just tricks people into thinking carbs are bad. It goes back to overeating is bad, not carb eating. Italians even eat pasta for breakfast and don’t have near the weight problem as Americans do. They just don’t overeat pasta or any other food.

We are designed to eat carbs. Our brain runs on glucose (broken down carbs), so we can’t even function properly without carbs. So keep your brain fed and your body lean: EAT CARBS!!!