Some caveats: -Many people do not tolerate high fat diets well. For them such diets are not an option. -A low carb high fat diet is pretty suboptimal for ath

Some caveats: -Many people do not tolerate high fat diets well. For them such diets are not an option. -A low carb high fat diet is pretty suboptimal for athletes. Many proponents of low carb diets attempt to mitigate this by having athletes eat carbs only around training sessions. The problem with this is it greatly ignores the science showing carbohydrates' usefulness in the recovery process, specifically in building and maintaining muscle mass. It's important to move out of a mindset of "good vs bad" food and into one of goal oriented eating. If you are an athlete and you are eating very low carbs, you should probably reevaluate. If you are not an athlete and are eating significant amounts of carbs, you should probably reevaluate. Putting jet fuel into a car is not a good idea, but the inverse is true as well. -There is not science showing high fat diets perform any differently than high carb diets when calories are equalized for the purpose of weight loss. High fat is a compliance hack, allowing some people to more comfortably consume fewer calories than they do on a high carb diet. Many people talk about insulin spikes etc., when talking about high carb. That's kind a red herring: insulin spikes happen with significant amounts of protein as well, and they really aren't a bad thing. -Cutting out carbs usually leads to an initial 5lbs-ish drop in water weight, which makes people look less bloated pretty quickly, provided they were coming from a poor diet in the first place.