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6-11 servings of grains, breads, cereal and pasta is unbelievable. When I was on Weight Watchers several years ago, I was allowed 4 servings in the Bread group per day. Four. That is one slice of bread (and not the large slices that many types of bread have now), half a cup of cooked rice, 1 oz. of cereal. 6 to 11 is huge. That's hundreds of grams of carbs per day. It's a prescription for obesity.

I did lose weight on WW's, but I was HUNGRY all the time, so I couldn't keep it up. Once I stopped, I gained back all the weight and then some. Now I'm on Dr. Scott Connelly's Body RX, which is high protein, fairly low carb. Carbs in vegetables, many fruits, some breads and cereals (high fiber) are allowed, up to 100 to 200 grams per day to begin with, depending on your weight, then being reduced as you progress, again according to your body weight. It's working for me, and I'm not ravenously hungry all the time like I was with WWs.

Oh I totally agree with you about WW! I have done it several times, too, and I have lost weight, but I was hungry all of the time. I think I did the program you did back in the late 80's/early 90's. There were little boxes and we were alotted certain servings, like 4 bread/grain, 3 meat, 3 fruit, etc. With thier newer "points" system they basically let you eat whatever you want until you run out of points. If you want to eat a McDonalds hamburger 3 times a day, that's okay because it's in your points range.

My sister in-law lost close to 100 pounds on WW in a really short period of time, about 9 months. She was very thin for about 3 months. Then she gained it all back in about as much time as she lost it. She's now back to her pre-WW weight and then some. We don't really get along, but I know she feels like garbage because of it. She and my brother both really like to cook (he's a professional chef), so I don't know why they don't at least try low-carb out. He's also very overweight.

Like I said earlier, I before I got side tracked, I lost 25 pounds initially on Atkins, my mom lost 35 and my dad 25. Even my husband who was eating more vegetable and less bread and pasta, because it wasn't in the house lost a little weight (he's one of those people who can eat anything and not gain weight).

Having been on WW's before and now on a low-carb plan have you noticed that the weight loss is more noticible with a low carb plan then a low-fat/cal plan? I'm really tall and no one usually notices that I have lost anything until I lose around 20 pounds. When I first started Atkins before I lost 9 pounds in the first 2 weeks and it was very noticible. I think it's because, like someone else said, lets go of alot of the water it's been holding on to and people start to look less "puffy". Just curious if anyone else had noticed this, too.