[casinoboneerer]

*points off to the right* To the boxing ring with you!

There are quite a lot of us on this board who have tried EVERYTHING before stumbling on this method. And just as many who did not succeed (or gained!) on any of those other diets.
Personally, it was a "physician assisted" low fat/high carb diet that got me into this pickle in the first place. Not only did his 'diet' pack 60 pounds on me in a year (that I then spent the next 12 years trying to get rid of), it completely screwed up my metabolism.
I did everything from Weight Watchers, to Nutrisystem, to clean eating, to straight low carb. Many of these with exercising every single day.
This is the only thing that's worked beyond a 15 pound loss! (Which slowly crept back on, while still doing the same method of eating.)

As for the rice eating populations... http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-a...t-gain-weight/