Last Sunday afternoon the girlfriends and I caught up for our regular monthly gossip lunch and found ourselves talking for 3 hours about our struggles to keep in shape and diet issues. Of course, we were all eating a nice greasy Italian plate, but that’s besides the point.

Our conversation spent a lot of time on low carb dieting. Most of the gals (including me) had mentioned how low carb dieting had worked for them in the past, but have difficultly doing it now. Personally, I could drop 20 pounds in one month on a low carb diet back when I was 20 years old. The addition of another decade has somehow diminished my ability to eliminate carbs, and most of the other gals had a similar story.

So we tried to identify what our problems with low carb dieting are, and here are the main points we came up with:

1) We know it isn’t something we can continuously do, so why start.
2) We all seemed to gain more weight back after a few months off the diet.
3) None of us were sure it was healthy - though we’re not Doctors, either.
4) Food selection is too bland - how many eggs, chicken and steak can one eat continuously?
5) Daily work and family eating interactions - but really, one can argue this with any diet.
6) We all seem to like sweets more! :/

Okay, those were our biggest grips about a low car diet. Perhaps your are along the same lines?