I did no-carb dieting for about 6 months and lost 30 pounds. Obviously it's not right for everyone, and I absolutely love carbs so I could never keep it up fore

I did no-carb dieting for about 6 months and lost 30 pounds. Obviously it's not right for everyone, and I absolutely love carbs so I could never keep it up forever, but the author mirrors many of my observations. Cutting out carbs entirely for even a short period of time will change your relationship with food: it's actually pretty hard to eat your daily recommended calorie intake while avoiding carbs. Thus you end up eating because you have to. It's just incredibly easy to over-eat on carbs: they generally have a neutral flavor, and our bodies evolved to prefer the taste of sugar. They also tend to dissolve into liquid in your stomach almost immediately upon contact with stomach acid, so they don't keep you full for long. They're also incredibly calorie dense: something like french bread is almost 100% digestible carbs. It's not so easy to over-eat other things. I could probably sit down and demolish 600 calories of ice cream, pasta or bread without a second thought. Serve me 600 calories of steak and even though I like steak, I'll have a hard time finishing it. Vegetables are even worse (or rather, better) - they have lots of nutrients, but very few calories by weight or volume. Hence the author's use of cheese (I'm guessing hard cheese, which has fewer carbs) as a source of dense calories to replace most carbs.