This article was from someone doing the Atkins Diet.  I also tried the Atkins about 4 years ago and had success.  I lost 30 lbs which I had never done before, so it was good for me at that time.  Here is another’s experience with the Atkins Diet:

Have you ever noticed how different eating habits affect what you can buy in a supermarket? When the eating habits are wide spread, different choices also appear on menus in the major restaurants. When the trend was to eat lower fat foods there were suddenly little hearts next to menu choices that were lower fat. When the Atkin’s and south beach diets became popular there were suddenly lower carbohydrate choices on menus. Many restaurants now offer Weight Watchers selections complete with point values and exchanges. The main reason for this is that restaurant owners do not want people to stop eating out because they are dieting.

When the Atkin’s diet was first out I started following it. At that time there were no low carbohydrate choices in the restaurants or grocery stores. It was hard to find cookbooks that included low carb recipes. There were a few recipes in the Atkin’s book, but they tended to use ingredients that were not readily available or were quite expensive. I was always looking for low carb recipes because we were getting bored with the same dinner of a salad and lean meat. A friend of mine is a dietician. She was not thrilled that we were following the Atkin’s diet because she feels that too much protein is not good for you, however she did have a book of low carb recipes that she let me borrow. I was craving crunchy foods as well as sweets. At this time Splenda was not yet available in the United States and I did not like the after taste from the artificial sweeteners. My sister’s husband went on a fishing trip to Canada and he brought back some Splenda for us. When I was looking through the low carb recipes I saw a recipe for cheese cake. The cake did not have a crust but it had all the other things that we were allowed, cream cheese, sour cream, butter and whipping cream. The recipe included artificial sweeteners but I used the Splenda instead. The cheese cake turned out wonderfully. It was so good that I made it for guests when we had a dinner party. We found that it was easy to have people over for dinner when we were on the diet. We would grill meat and make a nice big salad. For the guests I would have bread or a potato.

I was successful at losing weight on the low carb diet. I slowly added carbs back in when I reached my goal weight. I find that if I over eat and need to drop a few pounds I can successfully do this be following the restrictive first two weeks of the diet.

Obesity is on the rise and a large section of the populace is overweight. Even kids are showing a trend of being overweight. Much of the problem comes down to the food we eat, but one must seperate the fact from the fiction to understand.

Weight loss is a multi-billion dollar industry. Companies make piles of money selling diets programs. This creates confusion for the average person as each diet touts one type of food while bashing another. Let’s debunk some of the myths.

Whatever you do, definitely don’t eat that. Wait, says another weight loss guru, do eat it. A body builder can tell you the stark truth. The issue is calories, not what you eat. Eat fewer calories than you expend and you will lose weight.

The type of food you eat is important because of its caloric density. Certain foods like vegetables have low calorie counts. An entire head of lettuce has about 100 calories. A fast food specialty cheeseburger may have 700 to 1,000 calories.

Eat your last meal before five in the afternoon and you will lose weight. That’s the old folks tale. It isn’t accurate. The issue is what you eat, not when and the total amount of calories you take in during a 24 hour period.

You can lose 20 pounds in a couple days if you try this magical diet. Yes and no. Certain diets can result in massive weight loss, but the weight loss is mostly water. You realistically can only lose one to two pounds a day even if you fast.

Fats are horrific and must be avoided if you want to lose weight. This is another statement that seems to be written in stone, but is not really true. Fat from McDonalds is not good for you, but fat from nuts and seeds is.

Cut out one of the three daily meals and you will lose weight. More than a few diet gurus have mentioned this one. It is a strategy that almost always fails. Why? You tend to overeat during the remaining meals of the day.

You can satisfy your hunger by drinking a full glass of water before eating. This myth is false because you will not quench your hunger. It is effective, however, because you feel full sooner and stop eating.

How many body builders do you see that are fat? Not very many, yet they inhale massive amounts of calories. So, what is their secret? Exercise. Exercise burns calories. Watch what you inhale, exercise often and watch the pounds drop off.

Sol Ferdinand writes for WeightLossLodge.com – where you can read free weight loss articles online.

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