I agree with the statement that you lose fast the first week or 2, but the advantage of this WOE is that it is something that you can stick with. With most other plans, you are always hungry, crabby, etc. Atkins allows me to not be hungry. It is a big plus. Some of us lose even slower than 1-2 pounds a week. I would love to be at that rate...but it doesn't always happen. The other major plus with Atkins is that your body is smaller at a higher weight (does that make sense?). I know most of us are saying that we are wearing smaller sizes at certain weights than we did on the way up! You need to look at this WOE in a whole. Keeping your muscle mass and losing fat (even at a slower rate) is much more important to me than losing a large number of pounds and seeing that I am nothing but a glob. If you lose your muscle mass, you lose the ability to burn more calories just existing! Even though I continue to watch the scale, my bigger emphasis is my clothes and the shape of my body!