OK, "deep fried meat at every meal" was hyperbole, but only because *meat* at every meal, including deep fried fish as your favorite lunch, and deep fried buffalo wings as your favorite dinner, completely overwhelmed me. I didn't realize how much of a paradigm shift I'd undergone in the last few years. The thought of eating like that is incredible to me, it just is. I mean jaw-dropping.

I understand that you're making an effort in order to consume your bell peppers, your broccoli, and your salad. I respect that you are doing this in order to be more healthful. But...I have grown to expect that each meal will be based around a fruit or a vegetable, and I've been known to have dinners incorporating a pound of cooked greens, a cup of legumes, AND four cups or more of tossed salad. In comparison, your side dishes just don't seem like much.

If I stretch, I can imagine a lot of people on the Standard American Diet eating like that, plus a lot of potatoes and pizza dough and white fluffy burger buns, maybe even fewer veggies, and you're right -- you're probably doing a little better than they. But you've implied that many people who don't think "low carb" is healthy, yet eat like you do and think *that's* healthy. I find it very, very hard to believe, *particularly* of the population of this cycling training board.