Good evening everyone,

I've been reading posts for the last hour and decided to post a message.
A friend of mine told me she wanted to start Atkins today...I thought "Maybe I should join her"... I started reading about it and I had my "ah-ha" moment.

I lost a lot of weight 2 years ago...but didn't reach my goal. Now, I'm back up again...and I don't want to do yet another diet... I want to figure out what's going on...I want answers... I've been telling my husband - I don't know what's wrong...we're eating the same stuff and he lost 20 pounds in 2 months... I'm thinking - carbs....carbs are probably too much for me.

So all this to say that this seems like what I need to do...any good stories for me, to encourage me to really DO this?

I really love the low carb way of life. It takes a few weeks to get used to, but now I feel like I can do this forever!! Hope you find the support you need here. Good Luck!

I used to be on South Beach and lost but regained +.

During the winter I listened to an audiobook on my way to/from work - Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes. It was different than reading a normal diet book where you aren't sure if someone has an agenda or wants to sell something. This was an examination of diets from 1800's onwards and an eye-opening reporting of how the low fat diets came to be cut in stone. I suddenly felt like I had science on my side. Objective, non-agenda, non-marketing information about why I have gotten so fat. So I was following the ideas in the book and realized I was actually on Atkins.

There are a lot of people who are quietly on Atkins out there. They just stopped talking about it because of the misconceptions.

That's how I turned up here. Sorry for the long story, but if you are looking to be convinced, try that book. Then try Atkins and see it if works for you.