Not being overly simplistic at all. Simply pointing to reality. If you burn the energy there’s nothing wrong with carbs; if you don’t the problem really isn’t the carbs, it’s your inactivity.
I mostly only eat breakfast on workout days, sometimes if I know lunch will be late I’ll have a little something focused on protein. If I’m having pancakes then indeed the next step is the gym, or the bike trail, or the pool. So it would seem that indeed exercise IS the correct solution.
Food is like everything else in life, it’s part of our life and works best in concert with it. You don’t wear winter clothes in summer, you don’t put on your Sunday best for yard work, you get to bed early if you know the next day will be a hard march, and you save your carb intake for when you’re going to actually use the energy. There’s a good reason why the classic “farmers’ breakfast” was a diet put together by people about to spend the next 12 hours at hard manual labor. One of our big problems is we let our food intake exist in a vacuum from our life. People eat whatever they feel like without bothering to consider what that food is good for in our body, then bitch and moan that the food is bad. We eat a farmers’ breakfast now then go to the office and sit on our but for the next 4 hours before going to lunch and insist it’s the carbs’ fault. It’s not the carbs’ fault we decide to eat like an 18th century farmer even though we never have and never will work like one.
....”I’ll have a little something focused on protein”....
Well I have a Protein Drink every day along with a Multi-Vitamin/Mineral. If I go without that Protein drink I want to eat everything sweet I can get my hands on!