A medical student working in my doctor's office went on and on about how great that book is ... turns out she's eating the same stuff I am on Atkins/Protein Power. I'm a type A and have tried repeatedly to follow a vegetarian diet -- it makes me ill. I get so weak and lightheaded after five weeks that I start to lose my balance. I'm magically cured when I eat a steak.

It could be that Colin's wife has a hard time with it because she's a carb addict. I know when I first started this woe I had a bad reaction -- I craved carbs so badly I cried. Now that I'm over the addiction, eating carbs make me sick.