I've been bouncing back and forth between two diets since the first of the year. I started out doing Atkins and lost a few pounds, but then I got stuck. So I switched back to being vegetarian and counting calories (using the points system from Weight Watchers) and was able to lose more weight. Then I got hungry and tried Atkins again for all of three days (yeah, I'm soooo dedicated) but then I felt kind of icky from eating meat again and went BACK to my other way, then back to Atkins one more time, and now I've been doing my vegetarian thing steady on for a month. I'm down to a healthy BMI right now, but still on the upper end of that for my height and I still need to lose about 20 lbs to be back in my comfort zone.
But I read a lot about nutrition in the news, and so much points to this being a very healthy way of life -- and I find myself wishing it could work for me for weight loss so that I could also stick with it for health reasons. Other people in my family are Atkins people (which makes me the only vegetarian) so I feel that if I could just make the transition and do it right, that might be a good fit for all concerned. My current diet consists of a lot of carbs, and fructose! And I just read that fructose is what cancer cells feed off of.
Ug! Decisions are so hard to make. I wish I weren't so wishy-washy.