A good friend's mother was doing Atkins in the early seventies, and was really pleased with her weight loss, about fifty pounds at that point. But all you heard was how bad it was for your health, scared me away from even trying it, and she gave up.
Only to put on about a hundred more.
When I started Atkins I went on the Net and found all this great information (like here!) that made so much sense to me. So I didn't have any health doubts when I started.
It's too darn bad...I could have been doing this in my early teens! And I think my life would have taken a few different forks.
Funny to think about.