Welcome! Also, if you're thinking about starting Atkins, don't think of it as a diet. To my mind, this is the absolute best way in the entire world of eating! Food has flavor, and what you eat heals the body and makes it healthier instead of starving it of vital nutrients like low-fat diets do. I've been around the 'diet' track a time or two and one thing I've found out about Atkins is that it's sustainable. I've been at this for almost 11 months now--nope, haven't lost a ton of weight, but I'm not that young, either, and have a few health problems that flare up from time to time that tend to impede weight loss. If I had been trying to lose weight and deal with everything else I've been dealing with over the past months I never would've lasted. I can keep doing this forever!