Poll Results - Describe Your Diet

Scott Kustes on 17 Apr 2008 02:10 pm

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The Results Are In

I’ve closed the poll from last week regarding the types of diets followed here. Out of 232 votes, the results are:

Low-Carb non-Strict Paleo - 38 votes (16%)
General Low-carb - 37 votes (16%)
Low-Carb Strict Paleo - 35 votes (15%)
Low Carb no grains - 25 votes (11%)
Paleo + Dairy/Grains - 18 votes (8%)
Paleo + Dairy - 14 votes (6%)
Paleo+beans,yams,small amounts of grain - 11 votes (5%)
Paleo foods in Zone numbers - 10 votes (4%)
Not Low-Carb Strict Paleo - 7 votes (3%)
No Carb - 6 votes (3%)
Attempted Low Carb - 6 votes (3%)
Semi-paleo + beans, yams, occasional grains, and dairy - 6 votes (3%)
CKD, Mostly Paleo - 5 votes (2%)
All of the above - 4 votes (2%)
Zone - 3 votes (1%)
Vegetarian - 2 votes (1%)
Vegan - 2 votes (1%)
IF + Paleo + beans, yams, small amounts of grain - 2 votes (1%)
General Low-Fat - 1 votes (0%)

It looks like some categories got pretty granular, so in an attempt to combine them, this is what I’ve come up with. Overwhelmingly, people around here eat a Paleo or Paleo-esque diet, and over half are also low-carb.

Combining the different varieties, we have 146 votes, or 63% of all votes, that include the word “Paleo”.
Ninety-four (64.4%) of the Paleo eaters are not incredibly strict with it, adding in grains, beans, or dairy to some degree.
The top four vote getters are all low-carb type diets, no big surprise there given the subject matter here. That’s 135 votes, or 58%, following a low-carb diet of some sort.

And 2 vegetarians, 2 vegans, and 1 low-fat adherent have managed to stick around amongst all of the banter. I’m not real sure who the four folks eating “All of the above” are, but I’m interested to know how they are Paleo, low-carb, low-fat, vegetarian, and vegan, all at the same time. Anyway, I had a feeling the results would come out along these lines, but wanted to see how it shook out. Thanks for voting!

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2 Responses to “Poll Results - Describe Your Diet”

David on 18 Apr 2008 at 4:52 am #

Hey Scott….I was an interested participant in the poll. Thank you for hosting it! I’d also be interested to know how the “low carbers” (all varieties, paleo, non-paleo, etc.) define “low carb”. Do most refer to a precise # of grams per day…..or a % of total daily caloric intake…..or something else to calculate their daily carb cap?

What are your thoughts?

CHEERS!

Amy on 18 Apr 2008 at 10:17 am #

Well, I can’t speak for how everybody else defines low carb, but for me it is defined relative to what types of food I ate before doing low carb. Before, I ate lots of processed foods, frozen pizza, store-bought breads, boxed cereals, white flour, and sweets. Now, I’m trying to focus more on meats (grocery-store at this point, but wanting eventually to move to local, grass-fed sources when our financial situation allows), veggies, fruits and some dairy (cream, cheeses, yogurt), occasional/limited use of highly processed grains (pasta, hamburger buns, oatmeal, etc.) and I avoid table sugar (I do use artificial sweeteners, moderately, I think). So, compared to someone doing, say, induction on Atkins, my carb intake is probably high. But compared to what I ate before, it is significantly lower, and I am taking in more fruits and veggies to boot. In the poll, I chose “general low carb,” but I think of it more as “modified low carb.” I don’t actually keep count of my carbs, so some might say it isn’t low carb at all. If it doesn’t count as low carb, I’m not really sure how to easily categorize the way I eat!