Low-Carb Eating Out Tips

Omg. Idiocracy is in full bloom happening now because of 60 years of high carb diet.

Thank you for posting this! Lily Nichols is the most well-researched pregnancy nutrition expert I know. Her work is so extensive and her books are incredible!

After start a keto diet for at least 5 weeks, finally I got pregnant after 2.5 years trying at 36 years old. I wasn’t expecting this “side effect” �� but thanks god happened. I continued this keto diet but my doctors were very concerned about it when ketones in my urine appeared. As a result of my urine test I was told to eat a “healthy” diet, full of carbs… the results: gestational diabetes. I wouldn’t say another factors contributed to the development of GD, but the way I managed the blood sugars was by doing mostly keto. They (doctors) really scary you about ketones and I was forced to eat carbs but it is an inconsistency what they tell you. I was a whole mess between what doctors told me to do and the results I was having with keto while pregnat. I decided to follow keto diet (once in a while I ate carbs) and I have a healthy baby who was 7pounds and 7ounces as a new born.
My point is that many doctors don’t even know the benefits of low carb and we are supposed to trust them.

Can I just add that the dangers of a macrosomic baby can be catastrophic for the mother and infant as increases chance of a traumatic painful and often difficult labour/c section. This not only puts the baby at risk of many undesirable outcomes from hypoxia and birth damage but also for the traumatised and often physically damaged mother. Slow post partum healing, life long morbidity, postpartum depression.

How do you get hold of that study, or statement in the study at 8:00 That states carbs are zero essential.

Hmmmmm, they did a low carb pregnancy study more recently. Published in January 2018: “To assess the association between carbohydrate intake and NTDs, we analyzed data from the National Birth Defects Prevention Study from 1,740 mothers of infants, stillbirths, and terminations with anencephaly or spina bifida (cases), and 9,545 mothers of live born infants without a birth defect (controls) conceived between 1998 and 2011”.

Are you kidding me? Low carb, high fat and moderate protein is IDEAL for pregnancy! Fats and proteins are critical for optimal growth and health of both the mom and her future baby. Last thing a pregnant woman needs is to stuff herself with exogenous empty carbs that are nutritionally useless.

I really don’t understand why diabetic patients need to eat loads of carbs. Don’t they already have trouble dealing with blood sugar levels?

As someone who did keto for a year until I got pregnant, I can now say after a very bad scare that keto is not good for pregnant mothers. I got very very sick in my third trimester and had to be monitored due to diet or lack of. Doctors told me to eat varied diet keto is not safe for pregnancy and sure enough everything worked out after I began eating normally again. Pregnancy is not a time for trial and error or new fad diets without a doctors knowledge. Now I found out that not only was my baby not getting enough nutrients from such a strict diet, the baby was taking everything from me to the point where I was malnourished.

Thank you for this interesting presentation. Many facets of low carb nutrition have been covered over the years, but the place for low carb eating within the context of pregnancy is not something that has been covered in depth. I appreciate you for covering a topic that has seldom been given exposure. As with many misgivings that the public and medical profession have with low carb, whether pregnant women should adopt this eating pattern can best be assessed in the absence of clinical data by looking at it through a historical or evolutionary lens. As Ms. Nichols points out here, if having a low carbohydrate diet were that pernicious to the development of the fetus, humanity would never have made it to this point, because, for most of human history, rich sources of carbohydrate were in scarce supply. Given the dearth of plentiful carbohydrates throughout much of human existence, we must have developed adaptations for us to run on fat/ketones for fuels. It logically follows that the fetus also has these adaptations. Otherwise, every successive generation of human beings, prior to the advent of agriculture, should have shown increasing levels of mental impairment and physical disability. Modern day hunter/gatherer population should also be experiencing a rampant spread of mental retardation and physical handicaps.

On a side note, it is interesting that epidemiologists will jump to making causal connections between associated phenomenon when it favors the establishment narrative (i.e. high carb/low fat is good for you), but then don’t make such leaps in logic when associations work against that same narrative. After all, most studies of western dietary patterns show an increase in carbohydrate consumption has occurred in the West for the past few decades, with a concomitant reduction in overall fat intake. We have also seen increased levels of autism, ADHD, and food allergies in children. Now logically we should never make a causal connection between increased carbohydrate consumption and any one of these maladies, based simply on observational evidence of an increase in these two things. We would be guilty of the same error that we criticize epidemiologists for making. So I would never advocate for such a non sequitur. However, following the same illogical thinking of epidemiologists, if one phenomenon is on the rise (i.e. increased carb intake) and another phenomenon was on the rise (ADHD, autism, and allergies), why don’t these same epidemiologists, who like to denigrate low carb, say that the former causes the latter? Why won’t epidemiologists erroneously jump to this conclusion? Could it be their funding?

I’m pregnant and prediabetic and been on a low carb and feeling great and losing weight even if that’s not the goal. But my nutritionist told me to start eating a lot of carbs cause it’s healthy for the baby and it gives me energy…. I told her when I eat carbs I crash. I knock out. And she told me it’s okay your pregnant just don’t cut out too much carbs…. I feel great on a low carb diet no morning sickness I’m sticking to this!