Dominic D'Agostino
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And as long as I am eating fiber, if the carbohydrates are delivered with fiber, there's really no glycemic counter effect to that.
No spiking.
I have a short list of foods.
So it's basically berries, broccoli, asparagus, dark chocolate.
These are things that I eat every day.
Maybe not the asparagus, but broccoli, berries, dark chocolate, and salads.
I'm kind of simple and I keep things pretty simple.
In the past, I had a desire to have more different kinds of foods.
I enjoy that.
I mean, we were traveling in Greece and I'm not going to pass up all the great food when I'm traveling.
I ate as much carbohydrates.
as whatever they were serving me.
And I came back six pounds lighter because I'm in and out of the water every day.
I'm walking out in the sun and things like that.
So actually increasing, tripling or quadrupling my carbohydrate made me lose six pounds when I come back.
I felt great.
Yeah.
I'm pretty metabolically flexible.
So I think that's also a consideration that if you really delve to carbohydrate restriction and your body is completely fat adapted and it's like carbohydrates are a foreign substance and glucose spikes, you're going to have a pretty big counter-regulatory effect once you start getting bolusing carbohydrates again.
Because you're changing your physiology, you're changing.