Correct...
It has been 2 1/2 years since I had any carbs whatsoever...unless they came in trace amounts from eggs, coffee or straight, distilled spirits.
Literally. I have had nothing from the dairy, grain or vegetable groups in over 2 years.
All I eat is beef (as rare as I can cook it), fish, chicken or eggs. And fat. A LOT of fat.
Very little in the way of spices...and no sauces.
I used to be HUGE bread/pasta/potato eater! But I really started to feel bad, and felt bloated after eating some of the stuff I did. Did a lot of reading and studying and went cold turkey.
I don’t miss any of it much. Sure, I still think it would be fun to dig into a great Mexican food meal or something every once in a while. But it’s not anything close to a craving.
I just adjusted my thinking about food. Now I eat to live, rather than living to eat. I don’t think of food as recreation, anymore.
I’ve lost 55 pounds. My blood sugars are amazing. My BP is way down. My skin and hair are great. I have no caries in my mouth (I take in no “sugars”).
And I’m almost never hungry. And I never have the “lulls” in energy I used to have when I was eating carbs.
Literally, I could (and have) go 3 or 4 days without any hunger pangs and no drops in energy levels.
But to your point about “grain-based diets”...
In almost every case, when diets switched from meat to grain-based, overall health deteriorated.
In Africa, the Masai (meat, blood and dairy diet) are healthier and dominate many of the agrarian tribes. They are stronger, fitter, etc.
If one really wants to analyze it on an apples-to-apples basis the meat-only, or zero carb diet, fares very well.
Comparisons of life expectancies of modern men with “cavemen” or Eskimos need to take into account the brutal, dangerous environments in which they live...which seems pretty obvious to me.
But analysis of those groups has shown much lower incidence of “modern” disease.