Shoer, I have tried just about every diet in the book and although I lost weight I had to eat a very small amount of food to do so. With Atkins I am at least full. For example, doing lowfat I could not go over 800 cals a day and I had to run at least 5 miles 6 days a week to see the scale budge. Not to mention I suffer from several severe chronic conditions which I have had several surgeries for, since I started LCing my pain has minimized and two of the conditions have gone into remission. Even if I were to gain weight doing Atkins it would be worth it to me. I used to not even be able to hold down a job or carry out other daily routines, now I can. Even doing the fat fast right now I get to eat more than that and stay pretty full. Hopefully when I start adding veggies back tomorrow I will still continue the weightloss.