Leora-

Lisa is an excellent source of information, isn't she?

I just wanted to address this quote above. I went through the SAME thing. We have been so brainwashed by the whole low fat, low calorie idea that it is so hard to break out of it. I was terrified but excited when I started Atkins. I was sure the scale would go even higher. Then I got scared to go off induction and move onto OWL. I just kept thinking the other shoe would drop. It hasn't so far!

This mentality didn't go away for me until I had lost nearly 20 pounds. Now I trust that it will work, but not at the speed I would sometimes like it to. Once I started really going through all the information, reading the Atkins book, and reading posts by people like Lisa I realized how much sense this whole thing makes. I obviously was not getting enough protein before this-as I would shrink in inches, but not lose weight as I gained needed muscle tissue.

As long as I keep doing what I am supposed to do-I know I will succeed. There hasn't been a week where I haven't lost something. Sometimes it is weight-more often it is inches lost somewhere. I measure several areas of my body-and I can usually find someplace that is a little smaller-even if it is only my wrist.