[joesbucks]

Enjoyed the before and after pics.

Regarding your comment about restuarants, yes the wait staff is aware of low carbers. I don't think management has figured out how to market to "us". Few menus have low carb features and you do have to ask for the veggies instead of potatoe or fries.

Outback is great for steaks. But more resturants need to have a menu just beyond meat and veggies. They need to have pasta made from the spaghetti squash, and other "almost" type dishes. I firmly believe that if a chain adopts 5 or six such items and markets themselves to low carbers, they will have lines to get in their doors.

[SamAdams76]

You are right. I think a restaurant that adopted a low-carb menu would do bang-up business in no time. They wouldn't have to exclusively have a low-carb menu, just have a section of it dedicated to low-carb dishes.

I wonder why that has not been done already.

As for the "after" pictures above, those jeans I am wearing are already too big for me. I had to buy more last night. Also, I bought some L.L. Bean shirts for the first time - size medium. No more Big & Tall shops!

I've dropped over 10 pounds since those pictures were taken. I'll update my tagline tomorrow after my official weekly weighing.

[Tailback]

I firmly believe that if a chain adopts 5 or six such items and markets themselves to low carbers, they will have lines to get in their doors.

There was an article in the local paper about that very phenomenon. A couple local restaurants have added "Atkins Friendly" options to their menus and are seeing a big upswing in business. Some of the restaurant owners talked about how it didn't cost any more for them to offer vegetable dishes instead of breads or larger salads instead of potato dishes.