This makes me laugh ruefully to myself.

I don't have a history of yo-yo dieting, but I have a long history of trying to find the optimum way to eat for balance - physical, mental and spiritual. All of those ways included vast amount of carbs, whether it was big bowls of brown rice, or low fat chocolate sorbet.

The only time I ever lost any weight with one of these endeavors was a flirtation with food combining about 15 years ago. In retrospect, I was starving myself because I had chosen the vegan version! Thank God the addictive pull of carbs made me gain weight again!

So, through low-carbing I've come to see that for all those years I was feeding my addiction, and that's why I never got anywhere with finding the balance. Now I am.

Karen