I Blame The Peanut

A year ago after I lobbed a blog post at you and ran for cover, having thrown caution to the wind and introduced you to the elephant in the room, I got a lot of feedback.  The vast majority of it came in the form of joyful whoops and hollers, love, gratitude, and understanding.

“This spoke to me.”

“You got this!”

“You are such an inspiration to me.”

“I love that you are so real – sharing all the ups and downs and not making yourself out to be perfect.  You’re on a journey, just like the rest of us.”

“I suffer in a similar way – I am so thankful that you shared your journey.”

“It’s so reassuring to know that diet helps with even really tough situations like this.”

“I am so thankful to know that there are other people who struggle with the same things I do.  You give me hope.”

“Thank you for being so brave and putting this all out there.  It really helps.”

But there’s always one isn’t there.  In this instance there were a few.  A few dregs came from the thing that the Internet has aptly named The Troll.

“See!!  Low carb doesn’t work!  Low carb is dangerous!  Low carb makes people suicidal!”

“You should stop telling people about Low carb.  You’re bringing Low carb a bad name.  People are going to look at you and say you eat Low carb and you’re nuts.  You aren’t the poster child for Low carb after all.  You’re not perfectly healthy so you make Low carb look like a scam.”

I know what you’re thinking.  Yeah.  There was all kinds of stupidity and ignorance involved.

So consider this scenario and think about it for a moment.  You won’t need to think for long.

Esmeralda ate a spectacularly low carb, nutrient dense diet and was the epitome of glowing health, having transformed her life by choosing to eat in such an incredibly healthy way.  Then one day she ate a peanut and became so ill that she nearly died. 

Now The Trolls in this world would clap their hands in glee, shouting, “See!! Low carb doesn’t work! Low carb is dangerous!  Low carb makes people so ill they could die!” or “You should stop telling people about Low carb.  You’re bringing Low carb a bad name.  People are going to look at you and say you eat Low carb and you’re almost dead.  You aren’t the poster child for Low carb after all.  You’re not perfectly healthy so you make Low carb look like a scam.”

Hey, call me crazy but I blame the peanut.

{TROLL SPOILER ALERT!  Since the trolls are too busy clapping to actually think, I’ll give them the answer: Esmeralda is allergic to peanuts and her illness has absolutely nothing to do with anything Low carb}

Because no normal person could seriously believe that eating Low carb would either cause or cure a peanut allergy or a broken leg or an infection from a cut.  If people like Dr. Ted Naiman know that Low carb does not cure the world of all that ails it (and has never claimed otherwise), and celebrates and promotes my Low carb successes in spite of some of my body parts not working perfectly, are people really going to listen to the trolls when they spout forth ridiculous assertions of either Low carb being dangerous or me bringing it a bad name because I have Bi-Polar?

EXACTLY.

Now we’ve got that old chestnut out of the way, buckle up – we’re going on a journey!