Let me qualify my response first. I'm not doing Atkins per se, but what I am doing now resembles Atkins OWL. I don't think it hurts - just my opinion of course. The only thing I have to back up my opinion is the way I approached this WOE. I started out by just lowering my carbs. I first set my limit at 150, then later dropped it to 100, then later 70. And now I hover between 25-50 most of the time. Throughout the first 2 months, my carb counts were all over the place. When I set my limit to 100, there were days when I was well below and days when I was up high. I am convinced that I went into and out of fat burning mode all the time. I still continue to lose.

Also if you follow the thought that this is what our ancestors did, then I would imagine every winter, they ate lc and then in the summer they ate higher carbs. It makes sense if you think about how they would have lived back then. But of course, they didn't have the refined carbs we have today.

Again, this is just my opinion.