Carrib soul, I believe that you are mistaken about carbs. For example, fruit is a "simple" carb food, a monosaccharide called fructose. Fructose is fruit sugar. Monosaccharides are the allegedly "bad" carb. "Complex" carbs, the allegedly good carbs, are merely polysaccharides (more than one sugar). Veggies are an example of polysaccharides. Yes, your body will metabolize a simple carb faster than a complex carb. That's what spikes blood sugar levels. But your body will metabolize the complex carb as well, just not as quickly. Both carbs are turned into glucose when your body metabolizes them. Glucose is glucose, your body has NO idea where the glucose came from. Too much glucose and you gain weight and risk diabetes. Too little glucose and you have bad things happening. Nutritionally speaking there is absolutely NO difference between 100 calories of a complex carb and 100 calories of a simple carb. The difference is in what is accompanying each carb. Simple carbs, pure sugars really, aren't usually attached to anything nutritious. The exception is the fibre and vitamins in fruit. When you mention high fructose corn syrup as being bad and fruit as being good, I had to laugh. Fructose is fructose! And fructose is the sugar in fruit. I am surprised that you haven't discovered fibre capsules to replace lost fibre from eliminating fruit and high carb veggies in your diet. Along with a multi-vitamin, fibre caps are a key component in a low carb diet. Congrats on your weight loss. Exercise is a key component to any long term weight loss program.
