Can't say that I don't appreciate the weight (or at least inches) lost, but it was not my motiviating factor.

My TOM has become progressively worse, with horrid cramping. My physician gave me pain killers that practically knocked me out.

So, I had an option - stay at home for a couple days because of cramps, go to work practically incapacitated because of the drugs, or try to suffer through it.

My chiropractor gave me another option - he said to go on a low carb way of eating, with almost zero carbs a few days before hand (or at least only on those days). I switched almost immediately and have gone for about three months with minor twinges, but am functioning like a "real" person, and am not having to take "a pill for every ill".