[exile]

Tell me about it. I'm 5'8" and 190 lbs. I don't have the willpower for Atkins. However I think it's fantastic it worked out well for this couple.

[XBob]

71-" I don't have the willpower for Atkins."

Try it, you'll like it. That's the best part of Adkins, if it suits your body, you won't be hungry at all after the first 2 days. It's absolutely amazing.

After the first two days for me, I discovered I was going to eat out of habit, not because I was hungry. And after about 3 weeks (the time it takes to change a habit) I found I had to prompt myself to remember to eat, or I would totally forget about it.

I have personally found that the Adkins diet seems to work particularly well on people of Northern European ancestry (those whose ancestors didn't have pasta, fruit, and grains much), and had to survive on fish, and carribou, and reindeer, and cured/frozen meats. The bodies of Those from warmer climes (ie southern europeans and south asians) handle carbs much better.