I think you're probably right with that, Beth. Because the reversal diet almost inevitably involves a high carb diet, it can send people off on a binge of epic proportions, rules or no rules.

The deal as I understand it with the reversal diet was that you you went off low carb for 2-3 days and onto a different weight loss plan. It had to be an organized weight loss plan, (not just a carb free-for-all), like Weight Watchers, low fat, low calorie, whatever you choose, but it had to have rules and you had to follow it exactly. After 2-3 days, you went back to low carbing again. He did caution that a weight gain was almost a surety while on the reversal diet, but I think the idea was to shake things up a bit to help break a stall.

I think it's no small coincidence that it's not in the newer versions of the book.