With each transition, a temporary reduction in dopamine activity in the brain may make the experience of food temporarily unsatisfying. But as the brain adjusts to the lower levels of dopamine coming from the eating experience, it will up-regulate dopamine production and dopamine receptors. On reaching the goal of a long-term sustainable weight with healthy eating and exercise habits, one should find that no one will ask how you did it. They will just assume that you are one of those people who can eat whatever they want to eat and get away with it. Your normal weight with no serious fluctuations will not attract nearly as much attention and questioning as will someone whose weight goes up and down, but it will be a much healthier way to live.
Complex carbohydrates are among the most important nutrients for maintaining muscle tissue.
For this and other reasons, the carbohydrate-avoiding diets spread widely and pathologically 25 years ago. They were eventually replaced with competing fad diets based on other kinds of unbalanced eating. But after a whole new generation of people grew up without having learned that carbohydrate-avoidance was just another fad that did not work in the long run, there was a new opportunity for the thought contagion and the book deals that would help launch it. Like a new generation growing up without resistance to the measles, we are now in an epidemic of low-carbohydrate dieting that happened from a new generation growing up without resistance to that thought contagion. If the population is slightly heavier than it was 25 years ago, it might well result mainly from three things.