You shouldn't feel badly at all! You've lost 12 pounds in two weeks? At least that's how long your profile says you've been at this.

I've been doing Atkins for just under a month and have lost 9 pounds. I am not complaining at all--just glad to have lost it, but if you've only been on Atkins since the middle of October, you have nothing to complain about!

Just remember. Diet has more than one meaning. It originally meant 'the usual food and drink of a human or animal'. I do think of the Atkins nutritional approach as a diet, but I like to think of it as the definition above. As far as 'diets' go, yeah, that old 'die' with a 't' on it--well, those are in my past. My 'diet' is what I eat every day, and it's based on the Atkins plan.