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Did you only eliminate sweets, chocolate, etc. or also bread, pasta, and all other things that break into glucose.

crawdog 5y ago
I have been on a similar trend lately. Trying to first focus on low gluten/no gluten and nothing with processed sugar in it. Often hard to eliminate it all but even a dramatic cut back in processed foods has made a difference on my sleep.
- dustymcp 5y ago
  Cutting out processed foods and making your own food everyday makes a huge difference!
taylorhou 5y ago
body treats everything carbs (except for dietary fiber and sugar alcohols) as glucose eventually. getting under 50g net carbs a day is fairly easy. staying under 20g net is harder but not impossible these days.
- trentgreene 5y ago
  Yeah... but that "eventually" is metabolically relevant. Anecdata, but 250g / day of complex carb felt very different to 125g simple carb + 125g complex carb / day. As an athlete, and at one point a keto based athlete, I'm confident that carbs per se were not the enemy.
HideousKojima 5y ago
We tried keto for a month or so but it was a pain to keep up with (and getting more expensive because of meat price inflation).
umvi 5y ago
Just eliminating sources of corn syrup and added sugar is a great first step, IMO. We cut out soda, sweets, and other added-sugar crap (but kept bread, milk, pasta, fruit, honey, etc) and that alone was a big improvement.
- Groxx 5y ago
  Personally, just eliminating obviously-sweet things has been enough to make me not even want them in quantities I used to like. I still like things of course, but more than a little candy or soda is sorta sickening after you get away from it for a while. It becomes self-reinforcing.
thebean11 5y ago
Eliminating sweets is likely more important. Complex carbs in pasta / bread or even simple sugars in fruits are absorbed more slowly which supposedly is much better for you. I think the jury is still out on how good or bad carbs are for you. My instinct tells me they are probably completely fine if they don't make you feel bad personally.

I have been on a similar trend lately. Trying to first focus on low gluten/no gluten and nothing with processed sugar in it. Often hard to eliminate it all but even a dramatic cut back in processed foods has made a difference on my sleep.

dustymcp 5y ago
Cutting out processed foods and making your own food everyday makes a huge difference!

taylorhou 5y ago

body treats everything carbs (except for dietary fiber and sugar alcohols) as glucose eventually. getting under 50g net carbs a day is fairly easy. staying under 20g net is harder but not impossible these days.

trentgreene 5y ago
Yeah... but that "eventually" is metabolically relevant. Anecdata, but 250g / day of complex carb felt very different to 125g simple carb + 125g complex carb / day. As an athlete, and at one point a keto based athlete, I'm confident that carbs per se were not the enemy.

HideousKojima 5y ago

We tried keto for a month or so but it was a pain to keep up with (and getting more expensive because of meat price inflation).

umvi 5y ago

Just eliminating sources of corn syrup and added sugar is a great first step, IMO. We cut out soda, sweets, and other added-sugar crap (but kept bread, milk, pasta, fruit, honey, etc) and that alone was a big improvement.

Groxx 5y ago
Personally, just eliminating obviously-sweet things has been enough to make me not even want them in quantities I used to like. I still like things of course, but more than a little candy or soda is sorta sickening after you get away from it for a while. It becomes self-reinforcing.

thebean11 5y ago

Eliminating sweets is likely more important. Complex carbs in pasta / bread or even simple sugars in fruits are absorbed more slowly which supposedly is much better for you. I think the jury is still out on how good or bad carbs are for you. My instinct tells me they are probably completely fine if they don't make you feel bad personally.