The carbs they are keeping you away from are the processed ones. The ones that hit the bloodstream really quickly after you eat them. Those kinds of carbs dont stay in your bloodstream very long and almost always get converted into fat. They are looking to get you to switch over to a more resistive carbohydrate that takes your body sometimes hours to consume. Carbohydrates taste good and fulfill our cravings, but, unfortunately, even though they may be low-fat or fat-free, they can add pounds, and raise your levels of insulin, cholesterol and triglycerides. Your body weight control mechanism is essentially insulin. The modern human diet of fast sugars causes massive insulin surges to control it all. The body becomes numb to insulin after time and resists the energy reduction reflex of converting excess pounds from fat back into sugar. All you feel is more and more cravings. In this case you have to tough it out for about 6 weeks to retrain your body clock and sensitivity levels to normal foods. You will get a starving reflex... but it will be a false one. YOu wont be satisfied by resistive carbos... like raw veggies... but you actually are... you've just lost the ability to recognize it since the fast sugars always came with that little 'high'. Its not a matter of coming up with a diet that you can live with. Its a matter of toughing it out in the short run. One day... your body will revert to where it needs to be and you wont miss the old stuff one bit.