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How Necessary Are Carbs in Our Diet?
Carbs feel necessary for some people because they affect mood and energy
People ask me why I don’t recommend the keto diet for my clients.
A recurrent observation in my coaching practice may explain why. We all know followers of keto who do well: they lose cravings and have increased energy boosts and a feeling of well-being.
But then some of them are suddenly off the keto diet. When I’ve asked why they went off the diet, it can be difficult to get an answer that helps me zero in on what happened:
“I don’t know; I just stopped.”
“I just didn’t want to do it anymore.”
Reasons like that. A standard keto diet is about 75% fat, 10% to 30% protein, and about 5% (or less) carbohydrate. Right, the percentages don’t add up, but it works out to roughly 20 to 50 grams of carbs per day. When I ask why they quit, I’m hoping to learn something rather basic — that they’ve given in to a sudden onslaught of carb cravings, for example.
But, as mentioned above, too many say they don’t know why they stopped, they just stopped. More significantly, they don’t want to return to keto, or have tried to return to it and failed.
