I spent the afternoon at my sisters house and met with family members who haven't seen me since early July. They were all flabbergasted at how much more weight I have lost since then. Many of them now weigh more than me (and I was always the biggest one). When the kids were out playing some version of dodgeball that involved running from base to base, I was out there with them, sprinting back and forth all afternoon. Hardly got winded at all nor did I break much of a sweat. This after walking 10 miles this morning.
At the barbeque, all I had was two cheeseburgers without the buns and lots of water. Didn't even bother with beer because I was so busy running around the yard.
Looking at the guts of some of the family members who sat around munching Doritos, macaroni salad, and pastries all day, while discussing their various health problems, I know understand more fully the harm that high-carb diets have done to us. I am very glad that I found a way out of that way of living before I developed health problems of my own.
Pastries, Doritos, and Macaroni Salad are very high-fat foods, so you cannot simply use that as evidence that the sugar in those things are the only things that created those guts and the incredibly high fat content had nothing to do with it.
But regardless, the emphasis should be more on too many CALORIES consumed rather than sitting around and bickering over what calories caused you to get fat. Many people fail at losing weight by lowering fat intake because they then load up on too many carbs (such as eating a bunch of 'low-fat' snacks that are loaded with extra sugar, and therefore, calories). Replacing 1000 calories of fat with 1500 calories of carbs is certainly not going to be conducive to weight loss. It's not because you were eating the carbs that caused you to gain the weight, it is because you ate too many of them -- therefore, too many calories.