[Poser]

I went on Atkins around Y2K when it was still called the Atkins diet. I lost weight and my cholesterol dropped significantly. I asked my doctor who was a cardiologist how that could happen when I was regularly devouring prime rib and a Caesar salad. His response: “We are meat eaters, after all.”

Twenty five years have passed. I have maintained my weight and my blood work is still good. Prime rib is a heck of a lot more expensive but it's still very tasty.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I went on Atkins around Y2K when it was still called the Atkins diet. I lost weight and my cholesterol dropped significantly. I asked my doctor who was a cardiologist how that could happen when I was regularly devouring prime rib and a Caesar salad. His response: “We are meat eaters, after all.”

Me too, it was very logical and worked well, but I found it very restrictive and left me feeling deprived of certain foods.

Last year I went Keto and lost 40lbs in a couple of months.

It's similar to Atkins, but although you have to make a lot of foods yourself from alternate ingredients, there are thousands of recipes for almost anything.

Now the market seems to be catching on, and supermarkets now have the once taboo items on the shelves as Keto friendly.