Mark (MDA) makes it very clear that your carb intake and your protein intake should reflect where you are in life as to workouts and what you're trying to achieve as far as weight loss and/or building muscle.

Also, there's a difference between low carb and very low carb. Most Americans on a typical diet eat 200-300 carbs a day. So, anything under that would be low carb to them, however they wouldn't lose weight that way.

I also do quite badly with the VLC. Its not carb flu, it never goes away and I become a flamming *w*itch. Not to mention, physically I have no energy and my memory disappears. I guess I wouldn't have been the one to invent the wheel back in Grok's time.