It is true atkins does limit calorie intake. Low carb eating levels your blood sugar, preventing one from becoming hypoglycemic, and therefore entering a meal ravenous which of course leads to binge eating.... BUT atkins is not a low cal diet.

Low cal diets are about deprivation. You are hungry on a high carb, low fat calorie restricted diet. Low cal diets are unnatural. Painfully starving yourself is psychologically damaging, and inevitably leads to failure of the diet (98% of all people fail diets). This is why so many who yo-yo dieted for years with low cal low fat high carb find success with atkins.

Another thing to keep in mind, it's not just the limiting of calories which makes atkins work. High levels of insulin make one more prone to store food (fat especially) as fat stores on your body. Atkins lowers and stabilizes insulin production, making you less hungry and primes your body for fat burning rather than fat STORING, which is the real reason it works so well. It has been proven in studies that the atkins control group results in more fat weight loss, even when eating 50% more than the low fat/cal control group. How do you explain that?

Atkins is just a healthy, natural way to eat. Lots of water, leafy greens, natural oils and fats, and protein. This is what our bodies are designed to eat. Atkins works because its how we are meant to get energy; you eat a lot of unprocessed, whole, healthy foods rather than the frozen, prepackaged, type 2 diabetes causing refined high glycemic garbage that is recommended on "healthy low fat/cal" diets.