Hi and welcome! I was on WW years and years ago and can sympathize with your loss/gain thing. I could do it for a while, then would just be so hungry I had to eat! Atkins is oooohhhh sooooo different! I don't go hungry anymore. When I'm hungry, I eat, and sometimes I eat a ton of food. The other evening, DH and I stopped in at Red Robin and I was starving. I ordered the Baja chicken which is two big chicken breast pieces and a huge salad. I ate the entire thing and felt like I could've eaten more! DH was shocked to say the least, LOL.

It can be a real trick switching over from the LF to LC mentality. Sometimes when I get hungry and don't eat for a bit, I find myself thinking, 'Oh, this is good--I'm hungry, I'll lose weight!' Wrong!! I have to slap myself in the face and say, 'Hey--you're hungry--eat or you WON'T lose weight!' And believe me, that is very true with this WOE. If I want to stop weight loss all I have to do is not eat enough for two or three days.