mg, you cannot do sports nutrition without carbs. Even the most severely diabetic athletes emphasize carbs in balance with other nutrients, and the glycemic index (burn speed) of carbs. Complex, high-fiber carbs in combination with protein are essential to energy production and utilization. (If you AquaJog or AquaRun, this becomes obvious in the first half hour of the activity.)

This thread is not essentially about weight loss, but nutritional choices within a training program. Certainly a physician familiar with anyone's metabolic issues should guide those choices; when they do, complex cxarbs will definitely be part of the guidance.

Treating any food group as an enemy just doesn't work. We do not need to fight an enemy to be well-nourished and active; we need to work with the tools of energy in a way that produces the results we desire.

~Susan