What doesn't work for me is listening to anyone else regarding my weight loss/maintenance journey or substituting anyone's expertise but myself and my medical provider.

Every time I tried to lose weight it didn't work so....

1. Trying to lose weight.

(ok, but I did lose 100+ when I began eating healthier combined with CC because I was sick of everything i was doing at the time. plus it made me feel like the cooler one in the family to eat a nice big salad while they ate bowls of grease. also I just eat when I'm hungry. forget forcing breakfast into my system if I don't want it. that didn't work two years ago and it still didn't work two days ago.)

And....

2. Breakfast and listening to my doctors nag about it

Dieting. All the counting, journaling, "good" & "bad foods, all the constant monitoring of myself, the whole enchilada. Makes my head hurt just thinking about it. Now, these are my "rules" (if you could call them that, I break them often enough):

Eat what I want, when I'm hungry, stop when satisfied. Exercise for fun. I just walk with my iPod on, and do weights & yoga occasionally in the house.

I feel totally relaxed, I'm losing weight, and I no longer idolise donuts.

Took me a while to get my head to a place where I could do this, though, and I had to initially cut down on sugar to get rid of my crazy hunger enough to listen to what my body is telling me.

2 months in, so far so good.

Oh and ps: Atkins? I may have been doing it wrong but coffee with cream and bacon & eggs for breakfast? Yeeeeugh. I constantly felt sick. I lost a stone in 2 weeks, but it came back and brought a friend with it.