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I’m not sure if the starches cause blood sugar imbalances. I think for me it’s the amount of food I eat at one sitting, and usually those starches are accompanied by meat, or cheese, or some other protein and plenty of fat and salt that cause me problems. Which is part of the problem if you follow the food palatability theory, which I think is very probable. I think it’s Guyenet who talks about that a lot, not Masterjohn, although he may.
Also, it’s very individual as well Dutchie. Are you saying melted cheese is a sugar/fat combination? To me, that’s just mostly fat and protein. When I think sugar, I think of the OJ and milk that I drink (about 1L per day of each). I’m on over 300gms of carbs per day (I’m female) and sometimes close to 1kg of potatoes and I’m losing weight. I generally eat less than 2 grams of PUFA daily and the rest of sat/mono fat. So for me personally, I don’t feel like sugar is fattening.
I agree that if you ate plain bread of pasta, it would be incredibly unrewarding and would probably help you lose weight effortlessly.
Dutchie – I totally agree that a lot of Peatarians are dogmatic. It’s so un-Peat! to be like that.
Anyhoo…I’ve been eating high sugar/high saturated fat recently and am losing weight. But, in saying that, when I track my calories (not every day), I am eating less calories than I need each day, thus the weight loss.
I don’t believe starches are inherently fattening but for me they are the things I tend to overeat because they are fucking delicious e.g. bread, pasta, rice etc.
I eat potatoes daily, but just oven baked with a bit of butter and I find them filling and satisfying without triggering a food craving-I can’t stop-give me more episode.
If you overeat anything, you will gain weight (generally – see Billy Craig to prove that theory wrong).
I’m eating quite plain food at the moment which I think is helping to settle my appetite down.
