Thank you for your input Lisa

I called my friends answering machine and read it to her.

I KNOW she has been in denial off and on for years. I think she feels *WHY ONLY ME?* because she got it when she was only 13/14 years old.

I now tell her that she has a 1/3 of the US population to share it with and another 1/3 of the population are like me (living with chronic intestinal candida/fungal infections). The result of diet change is the same for both her and I so I tell her to stop acting like a victim and realize how LUCKY she is that she has symptoms that tell her to shape up!!!
I do feel lucky because I have more than one reason to do Atkins!

If I was doing Atkins, ONLY to lose weight, that wouldn't be enough of an incentive for me at my *advanced* age (cough, cough, 37, cough, cough, getting old, stagger).