Te wierd thing is that he wasn't fat at all. He was in great shape. He just got on Atkins to help his fat wife (reeeeealy fat).
I know it's an unhealthy and innatural thing to do to yourself, but I have not given him a hard time about it. Not at all. Really, nobody does. The guy was, as far back as I cqn remember, a stable and decent guy. Now, he is such an unhappy, wierd and unstable guy. Bitchy and moody. Fanatical about his Atkins god, which he didn't even need.
I cannot explain it, but I know that low carb regimens affect the brain like that. Now I avoid him, which is easy, because he avoids all us foolish, carless, carb-eating-devils.
I do have to challenge the "unhealty" and "unnatural" claim though. Reliable anthropological records indicate that whole ethnic groups lived that way for centuries. Atkins is VERY natural, at least for some of us.
I agree that it's not perfect for every single person walking the planet. Some people can't tolerate aspirin but it doesn't mean that aspirin is bad for everybody.