chenise, per your profile, you've only been on Atkins for *4 days*. To put it gently, that just isn't long enough to decide whether Atkins, or any other diet, works for you. Are you sure you're being realistic about your weight loss expectations?

I'm not trying to be hard on you, but I think you ought to wait at least until you've completed a clean two-week induction before deciding what works or doesn't work. I say "at least" because I think a month is probably a more reasonable evaluation period, but the end of induction does make a handy milestone.

And for the record, I agree with the other posters about both the evils of very-low-calorie and that you should investigate the less restrictive plans like the Schwarzbein Principle. I think I saw you get some similar answers in another thread as well. Why not do some reading and thinking for a week or two before deciding to make a switch?