Most patients wish they could leave their carbohydrate cravings at the door and get on with their lives. You can’t. Your carbohydrate cravings are inevitable. You need a strategy to deal with your sweet and starch cravings, or the bet is you will succumb to them. It’s almost impossible to lose weight and keep it off, eating the amount of carbohydrate in the average American diet. Even if you just eat fruit, it’s way too easy to over do it on carbohydrate. Carbohydrate causes fat storage. The more carbohydrate you eat, the easier it is for your body to store fat. The most important factor in how much you weigh, in the long run (and in the short run), is the amount of carbohydrate in your diet.