Quote from LongShot:
franklin are you fat? answer truthfully.. better yet give your true height and weight.
I originally went on my lower-carb, higher-protein diet to heighten awareness while trading, and to reduce the risk of diabetes. I'm reluctant to get into personal details, since there is value in the anonymity this site affords us (mainly because there are many shy individuals who would not otherwise speak up, and because none of us wish to be attacked by whackos

). However, the info you request sounds fairly harmless (anyway, its the same type of results that almost everyone on this diet gets!), so here it is:
Height: 6'2"
Before the lower-carb, higher-protein diet, while eating many "low-fat" meals (often with rice and potatoes), my weight was about 205. On the new diet, it dropped to about 185 and has remained there for an extended period of time. More importantly, my triglycerides, HDL, and blood glucose moved from being borderline to safe levels. (BTW, I actually exercise a bit less now while on the new diet.)
Personally, I don't think that weight/height ratios are a very good measure of a person's diabetes or heart disease risk. Some people are just bigger or smaller than others for a given height, even if eating comparable diets. You have to look inside to find out what the risks are.
LS, I agree that you can do "better" than this on a somewhat lower-fat, higher-vegetable diet (with respect to extending life span). Problem is, you can't get the person with average discipline to stick to such a diet, because they don't like what they are eating, and/or what they are eating doesn't satisfy their hunger and/or provide them with enough energy. Anyone who has a friend or family member who's been on and off diets during the last 30 years knows what I'm talking about.
As a species, we've been eating meat for at least 6 million years (even chimps eat meat). Eating more meat may even have been a key to our survival and brain evolution during that time (according to a recent book on the subject). I would like us to stop having to kill other animals to get our meat, but that will get fixed eventually (perhaps by being able to "grow" types of meat w/o using animals).