OK -- just to leave you TOTALLY confused: I've found that when I get the percentage of fat in my diet as high as possible, I lose weight fastest. I was just looking over my fitday account and it's amazing how closely my weight loss tracks with fat percentage. (In fact, if you're really stalled, Dr A says you can try the "fat fast" -- 90% of calories from fat -- to jump start the process and I've tried it, it works AMAZINGLY well.)

The total number of calories seems to matter much less than the percent from fat. Shrugs.

I wouldn't recommend Xenical on this diet -- what doreen said about eating fat helping your body to BURN its own stored fat is absolutely true. It seems like magic but it's true. Review the book if you doubt me, :-). You actually do NOT absorb dietary fat on this diet -- that's the miracle of it. Xenical is for the old "low fat - hi carb" school of thought.