With the exception of rice and cous-cous, I pretty much have cut out most of the high-carb foods in my regular diet. No more pies, cakes, candy, packaged snack foods, chips, etc. Since cutting this stuff out and doing my walking every day, my hunger for these foods have disappeared. I used to crave stuff like those peanut butter and cracker sandwiches that you see in the vending machines. I also craved things like those Goldfish snack crackers and Fig Newtons (thinking they were somewhat healthy). All those cravings have disappeared. Now I have just a banana for breakfast and a tin of sardines (or small bag of peanuts) for lunch on most days and I am not even hungry. In fact, I have to sometimes force myself to have that banana in the morning because I know I need to put something in my system after doing my 5AM walk. I'm just not hungry at all. It amazes me that I have cut my food intake (as measured in calories) by half while walking 6-8 miles per day.
I don't bother counting calories but I estimate I do not go very much over 1,200 to 1,500 calories a day (including the beer and coffee I drink) since starting the "modified" Atkins plan (along with the walking program). I walk three miles in the morning and about 4 miles at lunch.
I have been eating much healthier for about two full years now and my weight gain had stopped. But it wasn't until I cut carbs significantly that I started losing the weight. Now I am losing it rather rapidly.