i needed to drop some weight from my sled so i started with me. i weighed 285lbs in january of 2008, then i went on the atkins diet. for two weeks you get 20 carbs a day and that's it. then you add some more in there as the phases go on. i stayed to 20 carbs a day for 4 months. i weighed 192 that june and have kept it off since. people said you gain it right back after that diet, every diet is like that, if you come off a diet and go back to your old lifestyle you'll gain it all back. some people said it wasn't healthy my health screening the year before to the one at the end of the diet (was still on it while getting screened) says very different, everything was in the green. i wouldn't recommend it as a lifestyle but to get the weight off and see good results quickly it works, then push away from the table before you get back in the same situation.
