Hi cryssfriend,
Welcome to KickAS.org.
NSD and LSD means 'No Starch Diet' and 'Low Starch Diet'. What people use to test for starch content is a bottle of iodine. If the iodine turn black on any piece of food, the food has some starch in it. There is also starch in pills, drinks, lunchmeat, and all sorts of things we wouldn't expect, including fruits and vegetables, and even some dairy. Coincidently, my wife is out buying me a bottle of iodine right now (if she can find it at walmart).

There is a subforum here dedicated to the no/low starch diets if you are interested. There are alot of people here doing it.

If we must have our grains, I think working with whole grain foods only is our best bet. The less processing and ingredients the better. This is how it is for me. This goes against NSD/LSD though.

Congrats on loosing all the extra weight. I wouldn't mind loosing up to 50 pounds.
Take care,
James

HLA-B27+, JRA diagnosis in 1981, re-diagnosed as AS in 1988. Also iritis, colitis, and psoriasis. NSD + low carb helps me. My health makes it hard for me to post in a timely way.