I agree. This diet does not require starvation. In fact it says to eat as much non- carb food as you need to not be hungry. Taubes actually discusses the after diet weight gain, citing to the fact that most diets restrict all calories proportionally but after the diet ends we go back to ingesting a lot of carbs.
So, once I hit my goal weight(somewhere between 190 and 200), I intend to slowly incorporate carbs back into my diet to see how much I can tolerate without gaining.
BTW, the Taubes diet is in the previous post at the link titled "No Sugar, No Starch."
oops. I didn’t notice that you posted the diet.