Yeh, one big disappointment with this "archetypal perfect diet" is that the
weight doesn't drop down to perfect. I've wondered if it's the insulin that
supports the excess flab. Therefore, weight drops until the level of your
insulin resistance is met, and it won't fall further unless you can drop
your insulin resistance further (and therefore your insulin levels will drop
and therefore the flab will go).
There would be no harm in experimenting with this idea (provided you're not
on diabetes medication)(unless you don't like being a guinea pig :) though I
think you think we're all guinea pigs anyway).
To reduce insulin resistance you could try:
1. Lower carbs than usual, perhaps in your case just less than the Zone
2.  Exercise is also good for reducing insulin resistance. In fact, one
reason I spend less time on this list (which I enjoy very much) is that I
realised that if I'd spent half of my computer hours out walking, I'd be a
skinny as a rake, or at least as a cucumber. This goes double for you Todd,
dare I say.
3. Perhaps a period of fasting would help lower insulin resistance somewhat.
4. If fasting is not your game, then a restricted diet with a big drop in
calories could help.
5. Calling for help from people with an interest in insulin- come on guys.
If this didn't work, then the insulin idea would not be supported.
Ben Balzer

 >Todd wrote

>  I am.  I've been doing Neanderthin for a little over 3 years now, and
I'm pretty strict
>about it.  I don't weigh myself often, because I don't like to
>obsess about the numbers on the scale, but I did weigh myself
>recently.  I discovered that of the 40 pounds I lost (33 of them
>on the Zone before starting Neanderthin), I have regained 20. My
>body fat has gone from 17% (the lowest it got) to 22%.  I am in
>the depressing situation of having to buy "fat clothes" for the
>summer, to replace the stuff that I naively gave away, thinking I
>would never need it again.  My LDL cholesterol remains elevated.