I found paleo/low carbing about 5 years ago. It changed my life. After years of struggling with my weight, it seemed to mostly drop off me and I felt so healthy. My skin glowed, various aches and pains cleared up and I slept better among other things.
Anyway, 4 years into it all, I began to get sick of all the meat tbh. I tried restricting my diet far too much to try to get thinner and it pushed me into binging. The weight started creeping on and finally a year ago I gave up low carbing. I just felt desperate to stop dieting and restricting myself. I completely lost sight of all the health benefits.
I think I've done well at eating generally healthily in the last year and it has been brilliant being able to eat porridge and bread and potatoes again. I love carbs. But perhaps predictably I have gained about 8-10 pounds. As much as anything that has been because my binging hasn't quite been under control but in the last month I seem to have finally cracked that with the help of a brilliant book. I feel confident that is a lasting change as long as I don't restrict too much.
I don't want to be carrying this weight. With the binging sorted, I want to get back to low carbing. I just don't know if I can. What good is it to get back at it and then 5 years down the line, feel so restricted that the same thing happens again? It isn't easy sticking to it 100% of the time, let's be honest. I love bread. But I do love low carb food too and I have been looking at photos of myself and it's really shocked me how much healthier I looked when I was low carbing strictly. I don't look that great right now.
Funnily enough just having a year off it instinctively eating masses if meat and fat seems very unhealthy. That makes no sense, but there you go. Is this really sustainable/healthy long term?
Thank you!