Hi Joycey!
I'm really glad that Donna is doing this with me. You bet it's a lot easier that way.
I think maybe your sister will take an interest when she see's how much weight you will have lost.
Sugar Busters is not based so much on just low carb but foods that give a low glycemic index. In other words carbs that don't really crank you insulin which in turn causes fat storage. It's really a great WOE for diabetics or people with high blood pressure or cholesterol. But then so are the other low carb diets. It's a pretty simple diet in that there is no measuring etc. Just a few illegal foods and a lot of legal foods. You can eat protein and almost all veggies except a very few like corn and beets. You can also eat most fruit like apples, oranges, mangoes, cantaloupe.......... A few you can't eat are pineapple, bannanas and maybe a couple others. The thing we really like about it is that you can eat bread, pasta and rice (no potatoes) as long as the bread is stone ground whole grain and the rice is whole grain brown rice and the pasta is whole grain or whole wheat pasta. The reason whole grain is allowed is that it has been tested to produce a much lower glycemic or insulin response than refined or overprocessed grains. Hence lack of fat production. Also Sugar Busters does not allow you to eat anything that has "added" sugar to the ingredients.
It goes into much greater detail in the book or audio tapes (both of which I got from the library) but that's the diet in a nutshell.
Simple and a pretty healthy kind of diet. You may want to check out the Sugar Busters website at -
www.sugarbusters.com.
Doctors or dietitions arn't always too agreeable to a low carb diet but they seem to slowly be coming around. I know some doctors have recommended the Sugar Busters diet to their patients as they don't encourage eating fat and do encourage eating safe complex carbs.
Anyway, I'm not trying to persuade you
but for me it works and I can "live" with it.
Hope your sister comes around. Have a great week!
Quincy.