of the true light said:
This situation with carbohydrates is one where the enemy has destroyed them, and now you are reacting to that corruption, as opposed to what carbs would normally be. The same could be said about your view of exercise.
Carbs give energy, most plainly, and are associated with the spleen/stomach and solar aspect of our body. However, any excess of sugar or other dense items like fatty meat, fried foods can cause the digestion to become weakened. This then creates a toxic buildup of junk called dampness or phlegm in the body.
It is this dampness or phlegm which becomes the unhealthy fat on a person. The key point is that this is not due to healthy carbs, like rice, but due to the improper digestion of food in general. Someone can be on the keto diet and get similar problems if they overload themselves with meat, as well.
This same problem can occur in people with yang deficiencies like if you are overworked, not sleeping enough, have poor Sun/Mars energies, and so on. All of these things will result in dampness/phlegm buildup in the body.
What makes this worse is inflammation, which can prevent the body from easily clearing out these other pathogens.
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When someone does cardio exercise, this helps the body restore its yang energy. If this extra yang energy is enough for the body to both remove the dampness itself, as well as clear out any inflammation, then you will lose weight. If not (due to a variety of factors), then your weight will stay the same or continue to grow.
So the root of the problem is simply energy. The physical body needs enough energy to deal with this, just like any other problem. In particular, this is a spleen/stomach deficiency that can start from someone who has poor yang energy, in general.
However, for other people, yang deficiencies can occur after prolonged yin deficiencies in other areas, for example. Someone who is yin deficient may gain an increased appetite to compensate. If this happens for a long time and doesn't alleviate the yin deficiency, this can deplete the spleen/stomach yang. The yin deficiency will also result in inflammation, also making it harder to remove any dampness or phlegm.
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If you look at TCM theory, you will see the spleen/stomach is associated with the "sweet flavor", which includes carbs, but also "bland sweet" foods like chicken. What this means is that the spleen/stomach gains energy from "sweet" items, but an excess of sweetness will also impair it. That is what happens from junk sugar, or eating in excess.
That is why people who have metabolic problems often crave sweet foods. However, their body is actually craving something like a sweet potato, not orange candy.
The key point is to focus on your Sun energies, which rules the stomach/spleen. This is how you keep up a strong digestion. It is the spleen which removes dampness or phlegm from the body, but it cannot do so if it is chronically overworked.
Hopefully this clears up some of the confusion, especially why some people get results from cutting out carbs and other people do not. It also shows how people can lose weight without cutting out carbs as well.