Wow! I am so SO glad I found the Atkins book in my parents bookpile when I was 16. From the time I was ten I was doing "diets" with my best friend, which were actually "lets go on a diet that's really strict" (Get this, we actually WANTED anorexia because it would mean we would be skinny, not that we seriously knew what it was) and then a few hours later we'd be like, "let's start it tomorrow" and we'd binge. I just feel really lucky I found low carb because I had the chance to get old enough to have the willpower not to just binge and eat all of the time - instead it would be binge, and starve. Binge, and starve!

Meg