Ladies and Gentlemen over 60 Continued

This is a post from Pam, a 62-year-old lady, about carbs which I have replied to over at forum.lowcarber.org

Pam’s post:

I will soon be 62 and still find my weight struggles continue. I have done LC over and over for the past 20 years. I am successful when I limit my carbs to 30 or less/day, but I find it difficult not to give in to the carbs when I’m stressed or happy or when the wind is blowing…I need some support and encouagement as I’m sure many of us do. The older I get the easier it is to resign myself to being overweight. But I know for the sake of my health it is more important than ever.

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My advice:

Hi Pam!

Yes, I know exactly how you feel. I find it hard to keep away from the carbs as well and have done, really, ever since I started low carbing myself, but after a while, I realized this was as much down to habits as anything else so I started to have a look at what these habits of mine were and how I could break them.

 I believe the answer is actually quite simple, if I didn’t have carbs in the house then I couldn’t eat them. So what I did was in effect, was change the way I shopped. I no longer bought any items that had high carb to them thinking “I can resist, and anyway other people in the household would like to eat them”; instead I left them in the shop which is exactly where they should be rather than in my cupboard only later to be in my stomach.

So my advice would simply be “if you don’t buy it then you won’t have it at home to eat it”.

Hope that helps,

Mark