It's a pleasure, Rebecca. Like you, I grew up with a very heavy carb filled diet, my mother cooked and baked................and we stuffed ourselves.
My weight started to rise in the 1960s when I stopped smoking, went on the pill and started an unhappy first marriage and I ate to suppress my emotions.
In those days, there was the Professor Yudkin low carb diet which I went on and very successfully lost all my weight.
Of course, there was no one like David in those days to tell you that when you came off the low carb diet and went back to "normal" eating, including all the sugar, you would put it all back on, plus some. And even though Yudkin hated sugar and called it a "poison" it didn't really sink in that sugar was actually the problem.
I yo yo dieted for years after that, gradually putting on more and more weight, not knowing that after finishing each diet and eating sugar again, I would be addicted again.
Finding David was the best thing that could happen, and, as you say, one loses the taste for sugar, but carbs are also very addictive and I have read that our bodies haven't actually evolved out of the "hunter gatherer" mode and that too much carb is not good for some of us.
I know I am one of those, my husband has no trouble handling carbs at all, he can take them or leave them ............and he still does have a sugar "treat" every now and again...........I watched him eat a meringue, cream and plum jam desert at the restaurant last night, but was happy not to have any. But my mouth did water in the main course when the others all had hot chips with their meals.
You will find that, like sugar, you will miss all those carbs like mad at first , but I don't find I miss them so much now and the odd carb treat is ok.
Yes, do keep in touch and good luck with your journey.
cheers
Freda
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