I have no idea if I am eating more or less calories because i always eat enough food to fill me up. However, when I was eating a high carbohydrate diet, I had a ravenous appetite. I regularly ate two helpings of everything out of fear that I would become hungry in an hour or so...and,often I would. My hunger, if not quickly satisfied, would make me ill, weak and shaky.

In contrast to my new way of eating, I eat a high protein/fat meal and can go for hours without eating. I have to remind myself, sometimes, to eat after 3 hours. I eat 3 meals a day until i am comfortably full. I can look at a big chunk of chocolate cake without eating it. I can be at the computer without a bowl of Lays Potato Chips and Oreo cookies ( Mmmmm). However, I eat so much food! I still have my appetite. I have a new, kinder,gentler hunger which allows me to eat sensibly, healthily, WISELY. I have lost weight thanks to my "new found" sensibility and I have perfect cholesterol, fats and blood glucose levels.Hmmm, my skin is no longer itchy ( it has been itchy for years ) and my weekly migraines have vanished. I am sure calories had nothing to do with those.

If I continued eating a high carb diet, I would eventually be as fat as my grandmother, God rest her soul, and as diabetic as my mother and as gouty as my brother. What the hell? Why is this diet so difficult to believe? We hear how important water is because the body is made up of 75% water. How much of the body is made up of protein and fat? We think that good nutritions is rocket science and commercialism ( Don't believe da hype!!! )