I initially discovered the Carb Addict's Diet on Fat Mark's blog. He was trying a new diet every week for a year. He had a really detailed review of CAD and he seemed to think it was the best. So I did a bunch more research and found this forum. I started the diet immediately, with a reward meal, even though I had eaten high carb food all day. (not recommended!)

Next I read a library copy of CALP. I noticed that CALP doesn't tell Rachell's whole story, which I knew about from Mark's review, and it requires you to equally portion your RM, which, to my understanding isn't necessary if you are doing well with CAD. Just not as enticing, I thought. So I bought CAD thinking I would like it better. However, I was disappointed that CAD suggests low fat complementary meals and went on quite a bit about saturated fat and cholesterol guidelines. Then again, it was written in the early 90s. I'm not worried about it for myself, I can ignore the phrases, but now I can't lend CAD to any of my fat phobic friends. And I'm afraid CALP won't be as appealing, except to the very health conscious.

So my question is, does anyone have a totally favorite Heller book? There was a revised version of CAD, too, right? Let alone all the others. When people start asking me how I lost all my weight I want to recommend their best book.

Thanks for the input!