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"What it comes down to is basically you're not going to be able to exclude those foods for the rest of your life. You're going to go back to eating them someday so instead of 'yo-yoing,' going from gaining weight, to losing weight to gaining weight, it's just the overall emphasis of watching what you eat, watching your portion sizes, so you can add those foods back in."

I take it that the esteemed dietician hasn't yet heard of "lifetime maintainance" on low carb?
Nowhere does Dr. Atkins say that you must give up your favorite foods forever. Even the occasional high carb treat would be allowed on maintainance as well as every food group in the amounts that your body can handle them. What those amounts are depends on each individual and whether or not certain foods cause cravings and weight gain.
What they seem to keep missing is that nobody should return to a steady diet of sugar and highly refined carbs once they reach their goal weight.