Just thought a bit more about the vacation eating thread and wanted to share it more with me. You are someone who has done a paradigm shift towards eating a certain way that is very typical for bodybuilders. And .. discovered that it fits you like a glove, to such an extent that you feel yucky when you eat differently.
That's an experience most others don't go through. Also, most people will prefer fattier foods over the diet fare that often tends to be low-fat and when they are partying/vacationing they will eat differently without getting ill. Or when they do, e.g drink too much it will be a temporary thing.
But what someone tends to eat is so incredibly loaded with emotions, that it gets a touchy subject. From 2002 thru 2005 I've been very low carbing consistently and still am in the low carb camp at 35% carbs overall . Over time it fitted me less & less since my bf% dropped and needs became different, also because I'm training hard. What I failed to see was that most people on the low-carb forums don't train and have way higher fat%s. So, often my recommendations wouldn't fit them as well as they fitted me. People with auto-immune diseases respond extremely well to a very low carb diet since it suppresses immune response which for them, is a very good thing as they have an over-active immune system. When they raise their carb intake, all of the symptoms come rushing back in.
Compare that to an athlete who starts low-carbing.. over time their performance will tank or even worse, they may get ill since that same immune system suppression will happen which for them is really bad news. That's what happened to me a few times. While my immune system is slightly overactive so that it can be good to lower carbs somewhat it is not good for me to do this continuously as I'll get ill.
Back in 2004 I got really scarily ill (spondylodiscitis) as I suppressed appetite with ephedrine and very low carbing for nearly a year and only last November I got shingles from overdoing it with training and once again lowering carb intake a bit more than was good for me.
Since then I've vowed to just listen to what kind of feedback my own body gives to me and not care a damn about what others think about my weird eating habits. Eat what makes me feel good and what keeps me healthy & strong, but also what makes me happy. End of story. Still not end of the journey as I'm sure that there will be more changes ahead in the future.
The only truly sorry thing that can happen is when people discover that 1 way of eating is what makes them lose weight and then get stuck in that mindset for the wrong reasons. Like how after a long time of low carbing your enzymes down regulate and even a small amt of carbs will make you swell up and gain weight.. people go nuts and flee back to induction levels. I'd not be surprised actually when the same happened to your fat digesting enzymes.. you're not used to fat anymore and feel icky upon eating it. That *can* be reversed.. amazingly I had the same experience last night when eating way more fatty foods in a Chinese restaurant than I had been exposed to for quite a while. Fortunately I was prepared and took digestive enzymes. My sweetheart even ran home (it's very close) and got me my enzymes that I'd left at home.
These things aren't well known by many. And those that are stuck into using 1 single way of losing weight are very hard to change (I was one of them esp when it comes to overdoing it in the gym) and I even got banned in one forum when I suggested that people might lose better weight when they applied the principle of refeeds & free meals (see Lyle McDonald's site
Bodyrecomposition - Lyle McDonald ) . Diet = religion to tons of people!
