Hi and welcome.  Really, it's just 'don't eat sugar', but you'd be surprised where you will find it.  It's in sauce, it's in bread, it's everywhere.  The newer book also recommends avoiding seed oils ( like cottonseed, linseed, etc ).  the only good oils are avocado, olive and animal oils.  Low fat food is bad ( it tends to have sugar in it ).  That's it in a nutshell.

Hi,

i  had terrible headaches for day 3 4 & 5. a couple of days in the first week or 2 i went to bed through sheer lack of energy and hating the world as i was missing sugar. Five weeks in i am starting to feel the benefits and not missing sugar at all

This is day 6 for me and I have changed my eating a lot. I eat less over all, lots of protein, and am feeling a lot better. Weight is coming off and i am not running out of steam like I thought I would. I make sure I have a teaspoon of oatbran daily. Was at a supper last night and the Arnotts Assorted Creams didn't interest me at all. Had a black coffee and went smugly home.

The hardest part is not what you eat alone, it's what you eat with family.  I do a sugar free dessert for my dinner with the in laws every week, and eat one chocolate, b/c it's a ritual we've had for a long time ( although I used to eat a lot more than one ).  I do think that one chocolate a week is the reason I still have the odd craving, but I can control it, and it was a MAJOR deal in the family that I might stop doing it ( I supply the chocolates, from the US ), so I just rolled with it.  What we eat at home, is far easier to control rigidly.