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It's funny but back when I first got involved in low carb, it was considered as a way to reduce calories. Dr. Atkins said that calories counted and to cut back on nuts and cheese if you weren't losing weight. Also, you were only supposed to stay in the very low carb phase (Induction) for the first two weeks and then start adding carbs back. You were supposed to keep adding carbs back as you lost weight (called climbing the carb ladder).
Somewhere along the way, the message got twisted and carbs became evil, calories didn't count as long as you were chugging fat and ketosis was the preferred thing to be in. The "whole CICO doesn't work", "we got fat eating low fat foods" and "insulin causes weight gain" (all erroneous) are all straight out of the current low carb guru handbook.
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