Nope, it's not low-carb. There are carbs, but they're "good" carbs. No
refined sugars, white flour, or processed high-carb foods. These foods
are easily digested by your system and high levels of sugars are
released into the bloodstream. According the author, if these sugars
aren't burned off, they'll be stored as fat. Your primary fuel tends
to be sugars instead of the fat you want to burn off. The "green
light" foods that are part of the plan (whole wheat bread, good-carb
foods) take time to be digested by your system, releasing sugars more
slowly into your bloodstream. Less sugar means your body will need to
use fat as fuel.

I think you need to find a diet that works for you. Atkins/LC is a
proven way to lose weight, as is SB, the GI Diet, and others.
Personally, I think GI is healthier than a high protein/fat diet. It's
certainly easier to follow for me.

Here's what I'm having today (keep in mind I eat small portions):

Breakfast: bowl of All Bran cereal, Splenda and skim milk, 0 fat no
added sugar yogurt (100g)

Snack: Orange bran muffin (recipe in the GI Diet book)

Lunch: 1/2 turkey breast sandwich with lettuce and mustard,  sliced
cucumbers and tomatoes, apple, water

Snack: probably al All Bran bar

Supper: Chicken stirfry on whole wheat penne pasta or brown rice  (3/4
of a cereal bowl), strawberries, yogurt

Snack: 10 almonds

Eating in a bowl helps me control portion size, and I only have 1
helping/serving. I eat at the table instead of the television. This
doesn't feel like dieting. I've lost the taste and desire for the
chips, ice cream, cheeseburgers and fries, hot chicken sandwiches and
candy bars that used to be staple foods for me. I'll still have them
on "cheat meals", but even then I eat small portions and make wiser
choices. For example, I love pizza, so a cheat meal would be ordering
a 9" pizza with a whole wheat crust, lots of veggies and 1 meat
ingredient, and splitting it with my wife. All of our cheat meals are
eaten for lunch so we still have a good part of the day to burn it
off.

We (my wife and I) eat varied, healthy and satisfying foods, and eat a
little often. Last night while eating fajitas, my wife said, "this is
so good! I can't believe this is diet food". Keep in mind that
exercise is essential. 8.5 pounds lost in a week works for me. I know
that weight loss will level off, but what a great start! I'm down a
notch in my belt too.

Kevin

I recently read an Australian version of the GI Diet, which basicly gives
the choice between protein meals or carb meals, but prescribes the minimum
number of hours you must wait between switching between the two (5 hours
after carbs before protein, 3 hours after protein before carbs). The protein
meals are the same as meals I eat on Low Carb, consisting of protein, fat
and low GI veg (also low carb).  The carb meals are low GI carbs with low GI
veg, but cannot include fat. Neither include added sugar or starches. On
days when eating carb meals, fruit can be included as between meal snacks,
but on protein days snacks are protein based.

But she stuck to whatever version of low carb she was doing and lost weight
successfully.  And, as I recall, she stated that she enjoyed it.

It's not only easy, it's mostly very true, too.

Years of school and practice at doing what?  Helping patients lose weight or
understanding & prescribing medications?

I am not saying that many doctors

A tough sell to whom?  The OP?  Well, the OP is obviously free to do as she
pleases, but if she really believes that a doctor, who will spend perhaps 15
minutes talking with her per visit at most, then it's a sad day....

People really do need to start studying on their own and not putting their
life totally within the hands of any person.  Doctors are people too
(meaning the are far from perfect) and few of them stay current on
nutritional info...I would go as far as to say that most doctors are
"uncredentialed strangers" to their patients as far as nutrition is
concerned.