There were many of you during the past year asking "how much is a  normal
portion of CHO's on this diet?" The book says to use a "normal portion."  Well, I
finally found the answer. I went back to the originator of this regimen  "Dr.
Alfred W. Pennington." He published a paper in the New England Journal of
Medicine on June 4th, 1953 in which he states "Carbohydrate foods used were
potato, rice, grapefruit, grapes, banana, melon, blueberries and raspberries in
amounts yielding an average of not more than 20 gm. of carbohydrate at each
meal. In a few cases even this much carbohydrate prevented weight loss, though
an ad-libitum intake of protein and fat, more exclusively, was successful. In
my  case I had to reduce my CHO intake to O to continue to lose weight after
the  initial water loss.  JerrySteg