I'm not familiar with the LA exchanges, but I would bet that the exchanges are the same. Here's why.
If LA exchanges are different than the exchanges in other exchange plans - they will be the first program I've found that does so. Now how the exchanges are broken down sometimes is different (some plans may ask you to eat more milk exchanges than another, but what constitutes a milk exchange, probably is the same).
I've looked at a LOT of exchange plans, because I collect cookbooks, and when I went on an exchange plan diet, I wanted to know if I could use the other exchange cookbooks that I have. As a result, I've been looking for those differences, and I haven't found any. In every plan I've seen so far, the exchanges themselves are the same.
The diabetic exchange diet was developed in the 1950's - and the exchanges haven't changed much at all over all the plans I've seen (except that proteins are no longer usually divided into low, medium, and high fat proteins, instead foods that were considered a high fat protein are now considered a protein and a fat exchange).
I've not found a plan yet that uses different exchanges so every exchange cookbook I've found so far is completely compatible (if LA isn't, it would be the only exception I've encountered so far).
The plans I know of (again, all of which have had the same exchange breakdowns) Weight Watchers (before 1997), Richard Simmon's, TOPS, diabetic exchange diets since 1950's, First Place (a christian weight loss program), Joanna Lund's Healthy Exchanges, Duke Diet (not the rice diet book, but the newer book), Hillbilly Housewife website....
So - if you want to look at the tops exchanges and see if they are the same as LA's, you can just use the LA's number of exchanges and use a bar replacement for their bars or figure out how many exchanges the bars would be (there are tons of exchange resources online, you should be able to figure that out).
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