Thank you for the warm welcomes and the advice!
As per the hi gly thing, I should expand on that thought a bit more ...
My mind, mighty sieve that it is, catches tremendous amounts of information
However, my mind, aging sieve that it is, loses tremendous amounts of information, and the loss is acceleratiing at an exponential rate!
Which leave me with puzzles to ponder, bits and pieces of information to collate, a sort of cerebral connect the dots process
(trivial aside - Sylvio Tomkins, the noted affect psychologist, studied Einsteins face for affect (facial wrinkles indicating long term expressions, worn into the features ovef time. What he found was puzzling, anger and joy. Reflecting upon this, he deduced that the anger was merely the frown of intense concentration, and joy was the AH HA!!!! moment of triumph when the solution came to the forefront of his mind. Im sure in a few years my face will have those same lines, tho MY anger lines will be anger lines from not being able to remember all these things I keep forgetting!)
anyway, back to the train of thought, before it gets completely derailed.
(remember, things come to me in fragments, Im trying to put them together)
Fiber has a buffering effect on carbs, by binding with them as I recall, much the same as fat. So when I say high gly mixed with low gly, it is safe to assume a lot of fiber is in the mix .. I would use more sweet potato than potato, cause I know potato is so lethal a gly bomb ... and I would also mix in some ground flax seed to it
and anything else that I eat when following my program will be similarily enhanced, I try to keep the fats down, the sugar down and the fiber up
my fascination with fat is borne of two recurring thoughts ... cutting fat allowed me to lose wieght initally, and when I figured out the fiber angle, it came off really quickly
the other thought is one a bit closer to home, the Pritikin doc created his program after a diagnosis of heart diesease in his late thirties, so he ate 10% fat in his diet
His autopsy some 30 years later showed the heart disease to be totally reversed .. allowing him to drop dead in perfect health!
Fiber has all sorts of good things going for it .. and speaking of going, I cant imagine a diet of cheese and meat making for a happy happy time in ye olde outhouse, unless you are a masochist! (personally, I prefer concrete to come out of a big noisy truck, NOT ME ... tho with all the yelling and screaming, there would probably be a decibel difference of only 2 dB!)
Another thought crossed my mind, perhaps it is the case that with the profoundly obese, carbs are poison - especially with the insulin resistant. In reading these posts, I keep seeing the same thing, the cravings are gone, when I eat sugar, I have cravings again ...
I have to go get some veggies, but when I get back, Ill make that profile. I like FitDay.com for getting my daily nutritional profile, how many of you like that site?
Hi Gang! A couple of words from Dr.Ray
Pick up one or more of the low carb books, and/or feel free to ask any questions if you're skeptical. 
and welcome to the forum. I found your intro quite entertaining, if the dr. thing doesn't pan out you could consider writing a column. I've been thinking about your glycemic index question. It reminds me of a question I had when the in thing was low-fat. For awhile the thing was to not count calories but count fat grams and never eat anything that was more that 30% of the calories from fat. So I wondered---If icecream has 50% fat and green beans are 0% then is green beans a la mode 25% fat and thus fits into a lowfat eating plan? 
I think your question is actually a little more logical becuase it is the basis of some food combining plans like Sommersizing (Did Susan Summers ever have a size problem?). I follow the Insulin Resistance diet and the idea behind this plan is to limit the amount of empty carbs and always eat them with protein to keep your insulin from spiking and your body from going into fat producing mode. For every 15 grams of carbs you eat you must eat 7 grams of protein, no more than 30 carbs can be eaten at a meal but the amount of protein, veggies, and some fruit is unlimited, you must wait at least 2 hours before eating carbs again, and never eat carbs without protein. So far, I am pleased with the results but I don't know how it will work in the long run. The one thing that I think is great about lo-carb eating is that it seems to control the need to constantly eat. I was always a binge eater and by keeping my insulin lower I seem to have better control over my eating. 
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