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Originally Posted by Addict  ^Exactly. This is known to some as the "zero-carb" diet: Zero-Carb Diet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'm not advocating this idea at all. Just pointing out that it is possible and you won't have problems with nutritional deficiencies. If you do the opposite and try to cut out fats or proteins completely, you're in for some bad news. Now, I'm sure this type of diet could increase the risk for many dieases in the long run (but it can also reduce the symptoms of others like diabetes). |
Yeh, and the bad news is you die.
I ate minimal carbs for around a dozen years. I based my diet on protein and fat. And mainly eggs, 20 - 30 a day. And as much cream and butter as I could eat. Plus fresh milk (goats milk when I could get it), and yoghurt and cheese, and meat.
The only carbs I ate were a few nuts, and a few greenish bananas and occasionally some potato every few days. Zero fruit and vegetables, zero sugar.
I had all sorts of blood and cholesterol tests. When the doctors used to remark on my awesome health, I would take great delight in telling them what I ate, and to throw their books in the bin. Very entertaining.
I had a humongous training and activity load, and until I ate that way had difficulty retaining muscle and recovering. previously I had tried various natropath's organic diets, based on carbs. All I got was a bloated guts, sore butt and limits to what I wanted to do physically. I was always considered fairly fit, and played top level basketball, which mean't I mixed and trained with top athletes from all types of sport. Eating that way was a ridiculously awesome boost, I added heaps of muscle, and had awesome energy and recovery levels and deluxe health. My team mates and associates were always getting mystery viruses, flu's and injuries. They would continually ask me what I was doing, but couldn't get their heads around it, despite the fact that I could literally trample opposition players and that my ever improving fitness was a constant talking point. Everyone was waiting for me to die, or I was going to be horrendously afflicted in later life. Both fallacies. The opposite has happened.
I only reluctantly altered my eating because I changed my beliefs, and decided it was morally wrong. It took a while to adapt, and to figure out a way to get similar protein and fat with out killing anything, and limiting cruelty. I have to have more carbs now to get the other micro nutrients. I am extremely selective when it comes to carbs. But I have tons more protein and fat than most people I know.
If it wasn't for my moral choice, I would eat like I did before in a flash. All that would change is the amount, as I no longer compete. It would be so easy. It gave me such an advantage it was almost like cheating.