Yāknow,
Iām really confused about this ācarbs are badā thing.
Iām 40, 5ā10ā and about 11 stone. I generally buy 30ā³ waist jeans. For all the various criticisms that could be levelled at me, āfatā isnāt one of them.
I eat what I like with little (visible) consequence, but my diet is very carb-heavy and light on protein. Iām vegetarian, canāt eat cheese, and eat mostly dishes based around pasta, noodles, rice, potatoes and other veg, and suchlike. I get protein from Quorn and suchlike and not much else, and can go days without eating anything protein-rich at all. Pretty much the polar opposite of the Atkins style diets.
Iām intermittently active. I ride, walk, run, climb etc, sometimes every day and sometimes not for weeks. I have a largely desk-based job. Iām not tremendously fit, but Iām not wholly unfit either. I feel like I have a āfastā metabolism, like things run quickly for me; my natural walking pace is much faster than most, for example.
Most things Iām reading here are telling me this is all massively āwrongā but, I seem to be doing ok. Yet anecdotally, I seem to contradict most of the advice given out here.
What gives? Am I going to die?