[beezdotcom]

It just doesn't make sense to eat high fat meats, butter, cream, etc. all the time though.

Why? Because the strawman says so? I'll agree it doesn't make sense IN combination with carbs. However, you seem to suffer from the common anti-Atkins misconception that low-carb is necessarily synonymous with high-fat. Atkins is not high-fat as much as it is not-fat-averse. The are even a few vegetarians who are able to successfully folow an Atkins regimen - but it much harder to do.

If you are eating 3,000 calories a day in fat, you won't lose weight, no matter how few carbs you take in.

Wrong-o. That's what all the anti-Atkins people try to hang their hat on when explaining the success of the diet, but it just ain't so. The most recent research indicates that the Atkins dieters eating more calories still lost MORE weight than the more traditional dieters. This would be comparable to my own experience, where some days in excess of 4000 calories still didn't seem to put a dent in the weight loss.

[LaraCroft]

Look, it's simple physics. If you take in more calories than you burn, through exersize or metabolism, you gain weight. Some foods are more calorie dense, and your body does react to them differently, however, your assessment that you can eat 3000 extra calories a day is ludicrous.

If you eat fat all day, you're gonna be fat, period.

Sugar is just not good for you, like the health nuts have been saying for years. Fat's not good for your heart or your bodies ability to fend off cancer, and other disease.

You can lose weight, but I've seen a lot of people who really need to lose 80 pounds losing 20-30 on a low carb diet and then going right back up.. horrifying when thinking of the crap in their veins.