...drive me insane. I'm sure this is a story everyone can repeat, but here's mine. Let me paint the scene.

Today at work, a colleague visibly noticed how much weight I'd lost in the past 3 months of following the Atkins plan (38 pounds to date). She asks how I'm doing....

Her: "How have you managed to lose your weight?"
Me: "I'm following the Atkins nutritional plan"
Her: "Oh, you know you'll gain all that weight back, don't you?"

Me: "No, I wasn't aware of that."


Her: "Yeah, I was doing Atkins and dropped about 20 pounds in the first month."
Me: "Wow, that's great."
Her: "Well, I went off the plan and gained all that weight back, plus a few more pounds."

<I'm thinking of course you gained it all back when you went back to eating the old way you freaking idiot.>

Me: "I know everyone has varying degrees of success with the plan. I feel it's worked well for me."
Her: "Even the receptionist tried the Atkins plan and it didn't work for her."
Me: "Oh really?"
Her: "Yeah, she tried really hard but it just didn't take. However, I don't believe she followed it to the letter."
Me: "Oh yeah?"

Her: "Yeah, I remember when she started it she was still having those great big ice-cream sandwiches with her pasta at lunch."


Stupid people drive me insane.