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MOST of the pipple on Atkins really-ize that it's a life-changing, lifetime way of addressing your food intake. South Beachers, OTOH, will likely be those attracted to fads or who've poo-pooed Atkins before and now that it's been proven to work, they don't want to admit they're wrong so they go for Atkins in the South-Beach packaging.

So far, I haven't seen 5 grams worth of diff between the two plans, except one sounds sexy and the other doesn't.

Michael

My husband bought me the South Beach Diet book because I was complaining about not having orange juice on Atkins.

I read the first two chapters, and pitched it, because he misinterpreted the Atkins as all protein, no carbs.

Plus, he spent a lot of time talking about how we shouldn't eat red meat too much.

I am going on the Carbohydrate Addicts Diet next week, which is Atkins induction two times a day, and eat whatever you want at dinner, as long as you eat within an hour. I lost weight on this one before, lost weight on Atkins, and think this is the best solution for me.

So far, I haven't seen 5 grams worth of diff between the two plans, except one sounds sexy and the other doesn't.

The sexy part comes only from the newness, when that wears off, there will be another one.

I did get a valuable insight from this comment in the article:

"Why do people fail on the South Beach Diet?" Hence the overriding tone of South Beach is evangelical tinged with AA-meeting rhetoric. Dieting is not dissimilar to Alcoholics Anonymous. You get with the programme and you stay with it for life. It's a discipline few people can exercise after the initial burst of drop a dress size cheerleading.

Dieting is a modern substitute for old-time religion! There are rules to learn, constant sources of temptation, failing and redemption, and plenty of guilt to wrap it all together. Also, loads of people to keep you in line by holding you to the rules, it meets a social structure need that only good old fashioned religious mind control could equal.

Think I'm making this up? Name me a religion founded over a hundred years ago that does not have food taboos or restrictions as part of its worship. Diets are the religions of our time. I've always wondered why I've resented them, now I know.