Myth: The reason people lose weight on a low-carb diet is because they are starving.

This idea is purely created by the fact that modern medicine believes that the body’s main source of energy should be carbohydrates. Thus, when someone on the low-carb diet starts using fat as their main source of energy (your body prefers to run on fats - especially your heart), and they start slipping into ketosis, they are defined as starving themselves because they aren’t using carbohydrates as their main energy source. People on a low-carb diet can eat - and frequently do eat - more calories and nutrients than people on low-fat diets... Unless they’re eating that over-processed splenda-filled crap that claims to be low-carb, but contains nothing of value whatsoever.

You lose weight on a low-carb diet because when your body is using fat as its main source of energy, it’s impossible to gain weight. It’s only in the presence of insulin in the blood stream (caused by a presence of glucose in the blood stream - caused by eating quantities of carbohydrates greater than your body can handle) that your body packs on the pounds.

MYTH: If you are athletic, you need carbs.

The key in what I said above is eating more carbs than your body can handle. Everyone has a different tolerance point. People who are more active have higher tolerance than people who are not.

Carbohydrates are not entirely evil. They can get nutrition to your cells faster than any other nutrient. When you have a sick kid and they need electrolytes, you don’t make them drink salt water or club soda. You give them something with sugar in it, because those electrolytes will have a greater chance of making it to the cells in the body before the poor child can vomit them out again. Likewise, for athletes - who use up large quantities of nutritional resources - not only do they benefit from the quick energy provided by carbohydrates, but they use those carbohydrates to carry in replacements for those vitamins, minerals, etc, that they used up while working out.

The problems come when you eat more than your body can handle, and when you eat carbohydrates that don’t carry anything with them to your cells. Your body actually has to give up valuable nutrients in order to process the carbohydrates that are bringing them nothing. So you end up giving up something of value, getting nothing, and thus going into nutritional debt. If you keep eating that way, you will eventually hit bankruptcy - your body will start having nothing but health problems.

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