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I don't like it. Don't recommend it.

The Atkins Diet is essentially a low-carbohydrate diet that requires you to eliminate or significantly reduce most foods from your diet, including fruits, most vegetables, rice, pasta, breads, beer, and the list goes on. In order to go into "ketosis" you must virtually eliminate all carbohydrates from your diet to the extent that you are removing cheeseburgers from the buns and so on.

Even in its maintenance phase, you are restricted in the things that you can eat.

I'm not going to argue whether these fad diets work or not, but you need to consider what kind of lifestyle you will have when adhering to such a diet. For example, you become a major pain in the ass at restaurants, telling them to bring you such and such a dish without the breaded topping and without the rice and without the...well, you get the picture.

To me, life is too short to be counting calories and obsessing about every morsel of food I put in my mouth. I can afford to take off a few pounds but I would rather eat the foods I like and enjoy life. Staying on a restrictive diet like this may or may not make you live longer. But it will sure seem like it.

I agree... I thought about this diet, but life without: doughnuts, cookies, pies, cakes, bagels, rye bread for reubens, white rice, burritos, chimichangas, pizza, danishes, real pancakes, french fries, mashed potatoes, stuffing, onion rings, etc.. just didn't sound as enjoyable. Yeah, it would be nice to be thinner. But, drinking 12 glasses of water a day? Taking a bunch of pills? Yeah, we Americans may be fatter than ever, but we are also living longer. I think it is simple chemistry: calories in minus calories burned. When you get a negative number, you are working in the right direction. Atkins says it is a lifestyle change. I agree... but I do not wish to pursue that type of regimen. It sounds expensive too! And bad breath without being able to munch an Altoids... ugh. Consider this: It is fine if you are willing to CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER. If you want a quick weight drop and a return to your old eating style, you will gain all of the weight back plus interest. If you want to live off of the Atkins diet forever, then the best I can suggest is to CONSULT WITH YOUR PRIMARY CARE PHYSICIAN FIRST!!!!! Freegards!