Bingo.
The Atkins Diet should be renamed "The Diet For People Who Want To Lose Weight AND Sit On Their Asses".
Atkins works, but I have a more enjoyable way of losing fat when I need to - smoking crack (that works, too).
If folks would just walk three miles an evening instead of soaking in the Jeopardy/Wheel of Fortune Power Hour, they'd never have to waste money on diet books.
This is actually contrary to my experience. THe first year I was diagnosed as type 1 diabetic my body fat was low and I was actually measured by the YMCA as having exceptionally low fat content. Some of this was due to diabetic ketoacidosis which causes a wasting of the fat cells and the release of ketone to the blood stream. After my diagnosis I bicycled 10,000 miles in the year following. I ate as they told me to, namely high carbs low fat. DUring that year I gained 10 lbs. despite the exercise. I also gained about the same amount annually with or without exercise. Then I started on the Dr. Bernstein diet of low carbs and exercise. I do not count calories and do not restrict the amount of food consumed. During the first year I lost 80lbs. I will lose the rest shortly. Exercise or no.
The Atkins book does not tell people to "sit on their asses." It quite clearly explains that you should be on some sort of exercise regiment, both for general health reasons and because it will help you lose weight faster.
Nor, by the way, does it say that "you can eat as much as you want, as long as it doesn't contain carbohydrates!" The book states that you should only eat a normal sized dinner; I believe Atkins says "you should eat until you feel satisfied, but not until you're full. In other words, stop eating at the point where you can say to yourself, 'Okay, I'm not full, but I have had enough to satisfy myself without ending up hungry again a half hour later.'"