Lynne Axiak had a wonderful article about the causes of obesity on her web page, but I just did a search and couldn't find it. (I found the page, but the page is no longer up.) She was definitely of the "if you've messed up your body, you can only lose through low carbing" school," and lost something like 160 pounds, 100 through CAD and 60 through Atkins.

I agree with you that the wording is unfortunate -- strict and rigid do have negative connotations, at least for our contemporary society, where we're not strict about anything But I agree that strict, especially, can be a good thing.

I'm also interested in what others have to say -- any diet/WOE experimenters about?