Same here on the cereal for breakfast. Wheaties or shredded wheat with milk were my favorites. Cream of wheat in the winter, with milk.

It was only years later and a lot of blood sugar testing I realized it blew my blood glucose levels through the roof.

Hunger control is one of the big advantages of a low carb diet. Meat, eggs, protein and fat satiate. Carbs will for a couple hours then you are hungry again.

Carbs and fat together are the perfect combination to put on the fat. Carbs raise the insulin level telling the body to store fat, then the fat adds the calories to pile on above and beyond the fat the carbs are going to create. If a person is going to eat a high carb meal, it is better to do it without added fat. Leave the butter off the baked potato (yuck). Eat lean meat instead of fatty meat with the dry baked potato (yuck). Or just forgo the baked potato all together and have some bacon with the fatty steak! ;-). Now we are talkin'.

John