Health question

I'm interested, as well. Specifically, in the long-term health aspect.

Zerocarb is relatively new, so I think that no matter which answers are given here, there is no definitive long-term proof. I look at it the same way I look at vaping vs. smoking: seems healthier on paper, but we won't know until years of actual data are available for analysis.

I am looking to adopt the diet in the short-term, at least. I lost about 100 pounds over a summer when I was in college using the atkins diet, which was similar. It was <20 carbs per day and an hour of rigorous biking that did it. I know that low-carb works, and that's based on nothing except my own experience.

I've gained much of that back over the last decade due to daily cubicle work. I want to trim up by going zerocarb (or at least close to zerocarb) for a while.

Not really sure where my mind will be at after I do trim up, though.

If you're at a healthy weight, I have a hard time believing that zerocarb is healthier than restricting yourself to <100 carbs per day and not eating foods we generally understand are shit.

I feel like the audience of this sub is quite skewed. If you eat a "regular diet" and are at a healthy weight, then you would likely never hop onto reddit and search for new and controversial diets. Instead, you would likely keep on doing what you're doing and never think anything more of it. I think that 90% of the people that visit this sub are people that want to lose weight...and, that's not a bad thing at all.

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