My thoughts on low carbing in general is that it must mesh with your life - it can't cut in to your lifestyle so much that you start to resent it and feel deprived. For the most part, I am able to avoid carbs with no problem at all. However, tonight I am going to a Solstice celebration. It is a once a year gathering that the hosts take very seriously. They grind their own wheat to make the bread that is cooked in a fire powered brick oven in the yard. They cook a vegetarian soup in a huge pot over an open fire. They churn their own butter for the bread. Everyone else brings desserts.
Well, I haven't had a bite of bread since August, but I am definately having some tonight. I will avoid the desserts - but I will be having the bread and butter and soup. This is a once a year gathering of an extended family of friends, in my mind it takes precedence over low carbing.