This topic needs an image of feminine elegance.

Beautiful! Thank you!

We are living in Sodom, or perhaps Gomorrah. Or Babylon.

We need to look at The World that way. As the bad guy, "other", "the enemy" -- in short, a bunker mentality. Oh you don't have to -- you can lose your grasp of the truth and your soul. We all have Free Will.
But if you want to serve God, you absolutely have to stick to reality, which is the fact that the World is the enemy. Not neutral -- it's the enemy.

Go watch any movie or read any book about a cult, or read about the Amish. Note how they look at the world at large. That is EXACTLY the level of aloofness and caution WE TRADITIONAL Catholics should have as well. Those cults are wrong about their beliefs, etc. but NOT about their desire to be aloof from a wicked world that is against them. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

If someone calls me a cult, because I do something (the one thing) the cults are doing right? I wouldn't care. See how that helps defend you?

The Amish are based.  Material heretics, but based nonetheless.

Actually, high fat and low carb would lend more to such a lithe figure.

 No, it wouldn't.

Fat, all by itself, will not put weight on you.  

 The fat you eat is the fat you wear. Biological reality. 

Carbohydrates turn to sugar in your body, and are stored as fat if they are in excess of what you burn off.

Patently false. Sugar doesn't turn to fat. Excess sugar is urinated out and burned away through elevated body temperature (caused by excess sugar). 

I regularly eat a high-protein (with the fat inherent to such things as bacon, butter, and so on) diet with as little carbs as I can.  

That's why you're over 20% body fat and your lifestyle is lethargic, for such a diet doesn't give you enough energy to sustain being active throughout the day. 

The fat you eat is the fat you wear. Biological reality.

Patently false. Sugar doesn't turn to fat. Excess sugar is urinated out and burned away through elevated body temperature (caused by excess sugar).

I guess you are smarter than this article.

https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/health-library/all/2018/08/how-sugar-converts-fat

I guess you are smarter than this article.

https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/health-library/all/2018/08/how-sugar-converts-fat

that article says excess sugar gets stored inside fat cells not converted to fat. so the title of the article is misleading and contradicts the actual text of the article and so-called "study". anyway, just because "science" says something doesn't mean it's true. science has been engaged in so much deception and fraud these past decades, you should have healthy skepticism. case in point: covid-19 and the "vaxx"

I agree there is a lot of deception.  I also would say that some "science" can be bought.  If something is stored in something, does it make it bigger?  Wouldn't that mean if sugar is stored in the fat cell, then that fat cell is bigger, therefor weighs more?  Wouldn't you have to use up that sugar to make the fat cell small again?

i don't really have a dog in that nutrition fight. but if the article title actually lies saying "sugar converts to fat" then what makes you think it tells the truth about "sugar gets stored inside fat"? 

WWCS, Do you have a SWEET ❤️ with a SWEET 🦷? I hope you’re prepared for the dentist and endocrinologist bills and the gastric by-pass bills when she hits middle age!  There’s the need for new plus sized clothing and buying her two seats on the plane if you fly anywhere!
Wise up, my friend.

You're ignorant on this issue. Sugar is PH neutral, so it doesn't cause any more tooth decay than other food. Rotting flesh (you know, the left over meat in between your teeth from your vulture diet) attracts bacteria more than anything, which causes quicker tooth decay. Anyway, everyone is supposed to practice dental hygiene regardless of diet. Moreover, a low fat - high carb diet induces weight loss and shedding of body fat %. Keep your mouth shut before you get informed and offer an opinion.