I did Atkins in the early 80's. It worked great I was about 190 and got to 170 pretty easy until I missed the bread and vegetables. I hate to say this, but check with maybe your doctor. I heard that Atkins is hard on some folks kidneys.

Some where you will have to learn to eat 3 or 4oz lean steaks and forget the 16oz steaks. That doesn't work for your health. eat everything low fat.Throw the french fries away and eat baked potatoes. Use low fat butter etc. If you use sugar quit and use just a bit of sweetner. Recent tests say that artificial sweetner does not cause cancer. It seems they were giving the rats a 55 gallon drum of sweetner a week. Ha! Ha!

Like my sister-in-law says, "life's a drag, LIVE IT."