When I was first looking into low carbing, that's what I did. I ditched sugar, pasta, rice and potatoes - the obvious high-carb stuff. Then I started Protein Power, which is about 30-40 g carbs per day. It saved me from going through withdrawals.

The problem with just doing "lower" carb is that you have to pay a lot more attention to calories. The advantage of low, low carb is that in the absence of carbs, a lot of the fat you eat is literally wasted because your body has no mechanism to store it. When you're still eating carbs, those calories count because it'll get stored if you don't burn it.

So if your goal is weight loss, and you find that it's not working with "lower carb", you might want to find something more strict. Otherwise, you're still doing yourself a lot of good by kicking the "white stuff" to the curb.