You are so right. I eat carbs at every meal (and a cookie, or a piece of chocolate, everyday); I tend to put on weight easily (I take it off easily too though), but the one thing I do religiously is exercise, four days a week I do some sort of aerobic exercise, and two days a week I strength train. And that, as you so wisely stated Senator, is the reason I'm not fat.
I'd much rather sweat it out for an hour and a half everyday, than eliminate my italian bread, my pizza, or my pasta portofino.