Thanks folks! We got off very lightly with the quake compared to others, so VERY lucky.
I realize I keep expecting weight to fall off me faster than it is, and that I still have to watch my intake of white flour, pasta, rice, potatoes etc and eat slightly smaller portions of carbs across the board.
A book I read before Sweet Poison that is useful to understand your hunger and satisfaction signals is called "The Don't Go Hungry Diet" by Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Sallis, another Australian. It probably should be called "The Don't Go TOO Hungry Diet" because she gets you to go a little hungry before eating. She doesn't particularly want the reader to avoid any food group, but to eat what you feel like, but as we know, sugar doesn't work so well with this! However the gist of her book could provide an additional bit of info for those who need to work on getting a bit more hungry between meals and eating to a somewhat less full level. She describes the Famine Reaction and the Fat Brake, which I'm sure you would all recognise especially once off sugar. I've found it handy to re read. But I rate David's book far more highly! Also have read "Good Calories, Bad Calories" by Gary Taubes, which seems a bit out of date already as far as the fructose connection goes, but it's still a worthwhile read on the history/science of nutrition and weight loss. A solid read though! But it's the reading of these books that convinces me David is on the right path. I'm impatient to get off 20 kgs, but I have to work intelligently with this. No more stupid diets! Yay!