I think that just about sums up my question. I want to do what is right, but they didn't tell us this part. How many carbs are too many carbs a day?

Way before I went the surgery route, I was a believer in low-carb. And I dont' mean "eat a bunch of bacon and no fruit" LOL which is what many picture when you say that.

When I'm doing low-carb, I usually stay about 100g per day or less. One woman laughed and said "THAT'S not low carb." Well, it's not Atkins-induction low carb, but it's about 1/3 of what the US guidelines recomment, so I would say a 66% reduction is low.

I find that even now, post surgery, when I'm eating well, it comes to about 100g. I track my food on thedailyplate too.

And while I started believing in low carb around '99, it was only last year that I read the Taubes book, but simply further convinced me that this is something to embrace.

Keep in mind, what we call "low carb" today is probably pretty close to what a normal diet was for 99% of the duration of human kind.

Also, Taubes does cover all the science behind why one does NOT need carbs for proper brain function.

I know that even our most prominent experts aren't in agreement on a lot of this stuff. You can talk as if it's documented fact just because it's in a textbook, but I can go out and find another textbook that has documented fact that disputes your documented fact.

It's just not as cut and dry as people like to make it out. We all have to choose our religion on this stuff, to some degree.

I think that 80-100g of carbs per day is plenty for my brain. Then again, my brain did fine when I was on 20g a day during Atkins induction phases back when I did that for a few weeks as I kicked off the low-carb way of eating.