You are so right, to go by your individual nature. You know when so.etching is right for you instinctively. Is low carb basically the Atkins diet?
Atkins is one of the low-carb diets, and one of the earlier very popular ones. (There were also the Stillman diet, in the 1960s; and much earlier, the ‘Banting’ fad.)
Later, ‘South Beach. came along. Then came the ‘Paleo; variations.
If you do a web search on ‘low carb diet’ and ‘Paleo diet’, you’ll probably see the gamut.
These can be very useful, especially for people who have blood sugar issues; or whose health problems require rapid weight loss. (You should consult your doctor, before starting any weight-loss program.)
But I’ve got a problem with people who are fanatics, and think that ‘everyone’ should eat this way.
We definitely need to eat more whole and better quality carbs - all of the refined sugar that we are eating, for instance, is definitely helping to kill us.
But the whole world can’t give up carbs entirely. For one thing, we couldn’t feed all the people on the Earth, now, without grains and other starches.
I think some folks go overboard ‘ideological’, about this.
Just my opinion...
-JT