Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Carbs aren't bad, honest!

Yep, carbs ain't bad.
In addition to WW, over here in the UK we have another v big slimming club called Slimming World. Instead of counting points for everything you eat, you only count up the number of 'sins' you eat each day on top of your freely allowed foods. (You can do the odd 'red' day - mostly protein) but are supposed to base the diet on their 'green' days - yep, you guessed it - carb based...

On a green day, you can eat UNLIMITED amounts of carbs like potatoes, pasta, rice etc, with most fruits and veggies and very small controlled portions of low fat healthy proteins. You then count x amount of sins (higher fat/sugar/treat foods). The diet is based on satisfaction of hunger - you can only eat so many carbs before feeling full, the fruits and veggies and small proteins have to be added for interest and to help that full feeling last for longer. The magazines and papers are full of success stories showing how people of all shapes and sizes have trimmed down drastically on these diets.

This isn't an advert for Slimming World, by the way, it's just to show that there is a life and a way beyond high protein diets.

Of course, we're all different. I can't eat just carbs without getting very hungry, so I make sure I eat plenty of fruit and veggies and try to get some decent protein at each meal to keep me feeling satisfied. But carbs form the basis of my diet.

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