Hi Brobin---I share your irritation re: the pseudo experts who knock low carb woe. I would have started this wonderfull wol years ago, had these misguided pontificators not discouraged me. The delay cost me a lot of unnecessary grief. I have lost over one hundred ten lbs in the last 14 months. When I think how detrimental these lbs were, in soo many ways I go red for rage. The advice these people forced on me cost me year of extra misery. I have certainly looked at both sides of the diet wars----I wish some of these uninformed experts would do the same, or better yet, wish they had to live through the adventures.