Thinking of doing the Atkins Diet?

You really either need to go to the library and get the Atkins book or go to their website: a href="http://www.atkins.com/Atkins-home.html" rel="nofollow"http://www.atkins.com/Atkins-home.html/a because the carb count in food is not as self-explaintory as it seems (ex. bananas are HIGH carb yet raspberries are not). I've been doing low carb for a year now and I've lost 40 lbs. I should note I probably would have lost more but have only recently added exercise into my program and there were some times when my weight went back up (last Christmas) cause I wasn't on the program and was eating a lot of junk. When you do it and you stick to it, it really does work. You just have to make sure you get all the proper nutrients, I do a variety of lean meats and vegetables (again, some veggies are really high carb so you need to look them up), cheese, some fruit, I use cream not milk, I do eat bacon and eggs but overall I don't use as much fat as they recommend cause I don't like greasy food (I use Pam spray instead of er). I have to say, having tried low fat eating and different programs, this is the one that's fit into my life the best. The weight loss has been slow because I let myself have carbs sometimes, but it really has sped up when I've stuck to the program and exercised. I am a big advocate for the program, although you will hear a lot of bs about it I did my research before hand and I know from personal experience it really does work!