I am doubting that as well. And I can see how it may be right for many, many people but not everyone. And I don't think
my problem is carbs. I think my problem is my unhealthy relationship with food. So that is where I am at right now and healing this relationship is where I am putting my focus.
I highly recommend Dr Pyatt-Oliver's book (she has a website which details a bit about her book. It is:
http://getfedup.com/ )
Her book has really made a huge difference for me already. The idea is basically this: You can eat whatever you want as long as you only eat when you are physically hungry and stop when you are satiated. And I have found that when I wait until I am physically hungry, I tend to crave more nutritious food anyway (I think it is my body telling me what it needs), But I don't deprive myself if I want a cookie or two. But it's funny, this week I packed cookies in my lunch every day and only ate them one day out of five. I just wasn't hungry for them. And before, I use to crave and crave cookies. And feel guilty if I ate them.
I am only a few weeks in, though, and I still eat for emotional reasons and thus still overeat a bit. But as I am becoming more and more aware of my body and how it feels, I am getting better at figuring out what is physical hunger and what is emotional hunger. I think it may take a few months to really recover but I am making progress. And already, I am more relaxed about food and I have more energy to focus on other things in my life.
I also had previously thought I was addicted to carbs and had an extreme sensitivity to sugar. In the last few weeks I have come to the conclusion that I do not have either of those things. I now think that my spacey sick feeling after eating sugary food was due to anixety and guilt over eating the food (I would get flushed and dizzy 5 minutes after eating one cookie, or sometimes a piece of fruit). Since I have started teaching myself to not be guilty after anything I eat, I have had NO REACTION to any kind of food (unless I grossly overeat and feel bloated). It's been strange.
I'd be happy to talk more about it on this thread of you are interested in what my experience has been and so on. Or if you get the book, hear what you think about it.
It is very nice to hear that someone is feeling what I am feeling.
-J