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About 5 years back my neighbor, who weighed over 400 lbs, asked me to talk to her weightloss group (Overeaters Anonymous I believe) since she knew I had lost over 100 lbs and kept it off. I went to the group and spoke about low carb eating and my journey. Everyone there who responded to what I had said talked about how they just couldn't eat that way. My former neighbor also, despite her initial enthusiasm, couldn't follow the plan and still weighs over 400 lbs last I knew. It's really sad.
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I'm actually kind of surprised they even allowed you talk about a specific way of eating.
I once went to an Overeater's Anonymous meeting at the urging of a friend who went to their meetings regularly. They mentioned "trigger foods", but no food (trigger or not) was ever mentioned by name, not even something as innocuous as lettuce. The thought process was that one person's perfectly ok food might be another person's trigger food, and set someone off on a binge.
In retrospect (this was probably almost 30 years ago), and having been back on LC for close to 20 years now, I suspect that almost all of their trigger foods involved carbs, but since no one there actually talked about which foods were trigger foods, there was no way to know.
As far as them not wanting to give up their carby foods - I think a lot of OA members would find a huge amount of control in their eating if they gave up carby foods, especially if they recognize even one kind of carb as a trigger food.
If for instance they recognize that they have no control over potato chip consumption, they might give up potato chips, but still eat baked potatoes. Maybe they can control baked potato consumption better than chips because baked potatoes aren't as addictive, but the the sheer number of carbs in that giant baked potato (or sandwich on Whole Wheat Bread, or the bowl of plain cheerios) could set off the craving for the smaller number of carbs in the chips that they think of as their trigger food. The chips taste better than any of the "healthy" carbs they're eating, so they're more drawn to eat chips, so of course the chips are what they're going to really lose control over - but my guess is that it was actually the constant consumption of "healthy" carbs that set off the craving for what they think of as their trigger food to begin with.
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On other topics in this thread...
As far as wandering away from here, this was one of the first places I found when I went back on LC in the early 00's. When I've been absent on here for months at a time, there's various reasons. I've wandered off to other LC boards along the way - the various LC forums I've been on all have different personalities, and sometimes one forum's group of members is more what you need for support at the moment, or the people at one forum just click better than the ones at another forum, or they just happen to have more ideas for sticking with it under certain circumstances.
When I was working a physically exhausting job for several years, I cut way back on all forums, especially posting on forums. There just weren't enough hours in the day.
I would always come back here to try to keep up with what's going on in terms of LC in the research and media sections, although I rarely posted at all, at least in part because I don't understand the research study jargon (I always think it means the opposite of what it means - I'm the same way with legal documents)
Still - I've stayed LC all this time. Not necessarily very low carb or keto, and my binging tendencies (which is why I ended up at that Overeater's Anonymous meeting all those years ago) rears it's ugly head from time to time, particularly with trigger foods such as nuts, which is why I'm far from goal and may never get there.
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I still have concerns about the new weight loss drug though, mainly because doctor's don't tend to recommend LC (since as one doctor mentioned here admitted, people just don't stick to it), so if they give those patients a diet plan to go with the new drug, it'll most likely be a "healthy" LF and low cal plan.
If that's the case, I wonder if carbs are the real reason why appetite comes roaring back as soon as they're off the drug? If that's why it will need to be a lifetime drug (even if they're avoiding junk food), and what it mostly does it to suppress the incessant craving for junk foods, in my opinion it could certainly cause the cravings to return with a vengeance when the drug is discontinued.