Just wanted to say a big "thank you" to you for the posts you have made about Atkins that are "stickied" at the top of the forum. Very, very helpful!

I think of you as the Atkins Angel now, because you've posted so many helpful things and have been encouraging to newbies like me!

Kim, did you try other diets before Atkins? The reason I'm asking is, I wonder if you had the same reaction to those other diets that I did.

I hated other diets. I was always starving. Even with 1,200 calories, which I am eating now and feeling stuffed, on the other diets, I was starving. It was torture. And I just couldn't keep it up for very long at a time.

Did you have that kind of experience with the non-low carb diets, before, if you tried them? Just wondering.

I really think there are at least some of us in this world that are sort of genetically vulnerable to diabetes - diabetes runs in my family, my grandfather had it, tons of other relatives have it, etc. You know the whole metabolic syndrome thing.

And I remember my Mom used to either starve herself (literally live on nothing but coffee, ended up having a heart attack at 44 because she starved her heart) or she would binge. If she baked a cake, the whole cake would be gone in one day. She wasn't able to resist. And neither am I.

And I am convinced that it's something genetic in the way we respond to simple carbs. That for some of us, simple carbs are like alcohol to an alcoholic. We can't stop once we start.

All I know is, this diet is working for me. Got on the scale and two more pounds vanished overnight. I'm at 169 now (goodbye 170's, forever!) and gosh that's 12 pounds lost in 12 days. Shoot I could use that as an advertising slogan, LOL! And I feel great! And I eat until I'm full!