8 Things You'll Only Understand If You Eat Low-Carb

I have replaced a burger bun with literally every vegetable you can think of.

Jon Boulton

There's a certain camaraderie you can only have with people who are on the same diet as you. If you don't get No. 6, you can't sit with us.

Contrary to what everyone thinks, you CAN eat pasta. Sort of.

Ethan Calabrese

Just because the traditional wheat-based noodles are off-limits, doesn't mean pasta as a whole is. Brands make it from nearly everything now — chickpeas, black beans, brown rice. And if you haven't heard of zoodles, you've clearly been living under a rock.

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Birthday parties are hell.

The cake, the cookies, the brownies — it's legitimate torture.

At some point, you actually wonder if butter is a carb.

John Komar

It wasn't that outlandish for Mean Girls' Karen Smith to ask. Carbs hide in literally everything: ketchup, yogurt, carrots.

Utter confusion the first time you read about simple carbs and complex carbs.

So you can eat carbs on a low-carb diet? Until you understand the difference between the two major types (simple = bad for you, break down easily; complex = good for you, provide energy), figuring out what to eat is rough.

You can drink — and your other dieting friends can't.


There are the eating plans that require you to cut out alcohol all together (cough, Whole30, cough), and then there are the saviors like the low-carb diet, where red wine or a vodka soda are (#praise) totally allowed.

The joy of discovering another low-carb eater in your midst.

It's like finding your long-lost twin, and suddenly everyone else is finally on the outside of your inside joke.

You can't possibly love Halo Top as much as me.

Halo Top

Everyone loves a good-for-you dessert, but when you're on a diet, you feel #blessed.

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Your meals are so much more creative than before.

We can all agree: Many of the best things in life include bread, but many of the next-best things in life include bread-less hacks. Stop rolling your eyes, and talk to me when you've tried taco tomatoes and pickle sliders.


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