[Yankee]

Researchers also say it isn't the restriction of carbohydrates that leads to weight loss, but instead an overall reduction in total calories.

Pure unadulterated crap.

I lost 52 lbs from 8/30/97-11/15/97. 237-185

I am a big eater, and I mean BIG

I was eating steaks that were so large they were hanging off the plate. (If it ain't at least 24ozs it ain't a steak in my book)

There was absolutely no reduction in calories, in fact I'll bet there was an increase.

And I was never, I repeat, never uncomfortable from hunger, because I could eat whenever I wanted.

I have never gone over 195 again since. I go on and off the diet as I see fit to keep my weight in a 2-3 pound range.

My doctor admitted that even though he suspected that the diet was "harmful in the long term" that so many of his patients had lost so much weight and were in good overall health that he couldn't condemn it entirely.

His biggest surprise was that the majority of Atkins dieters he'd examined, including me, had significantly improved cholesterol levels.

[CaptRon]

My friend had a similar experience. His doctor had spoken against the diet. But after my buddy lost 30 pounds and the doctor took him off his cholesterol pills because his count was so low the doctor hasn't lectured him since.