[Dad was my hero]

I tried Atkins, had a tough time on it. Initially didn't have the right book in his series so went to the second phase and lost about 8 lbs, felt hungry most of the time even though I was eating constantly. Then I got the right book and went to the induction phase and really felt bad. Finally discontinued the diet because I felt so bad, couldn't run anymore and went back to the old carb loaded diet. I still think Atkins has it right along with Sugar Busters. It is sound from a pathophysiological standpoint.

Maybe I need to go back on but not at the induction phase? What do you think?

[Nov3]

This time when you go on the diet take some potassium and magnesium, chromium and vanadyl. With each meal take l-carnitine and l-glutamine. That makes the transition to fat burning easier. You still are going to feel like $h!T for aound a week. Oh eat a ton of fat initially. It kills your hunger. EX. sardines, sausage, vienna sausage, eggs, fatty steaks. 4 small meals is better that 2 big ones.

No matter what Atkins says in the book at around five days into the diet, if someone waves a tray of croissants in front of you. . . . you might kill.

[wastoute]

The whole point of the diet is that you can't lose weight with high insulin levels, which is what almost every other diet (lo-fat) will leave you with. What you need is to get the insulin levels way down. One thing folks sometimes don't realize is that the pancreas can be stimulated to produce insulin just by eating something sweet (apparrently) and so during the induction phase one needs to have no artificial sweetners at all. Also you need to be COMPELTELY OFF caffeine. Caffeine stimulates cyclic Gmp, which cna act like insulin intracellularly. I think these are the two mistakes people make when Atkins "doesn't work". Good Luck.

[Johnny Gage]

Maybe I need to go back on but not at the induction phase

Actually, in the Dr. Aktins book, where he describes the induction phase in depth, he states that for the first week you may feel lousy. I the first time through that, I felt like crap starting about day 4 through about day 9, then seemly overnight, I felt much better.

as with all things, YMMV.

Good luck!