As I said earlier, be careful with diets such as the Atkins'... and as others have said,if we REALLY want to lose weight and be healthier, we HAVE to change our lifestyle,.. at least the eating part of it ... After success and failure with Atkins, Slim-fast, and "watching' what I eat, my wife has me attempting the Weight Watchers diet, and I've joined a walking program at work ... I can see that it takes a change in lifestyle to a degree ... you can eat ANYTHING as long as you account for it ... it really amounts to SENSIBLE eating, but since when has it been easy for us to be sensible?!?!? ...
I've said in another post that one of my passions is cooking ... well, that's only half of it ... the other half is eating what I cook ... so now, before I start cooking, I try to have a piece of fruit, or vegetables, to 'take the edge' off the hunger ...
... gosh it's tough to be beautiful ...
t.