I found this article on the Atkins website and found it very helpful.... maybe you will too!!

The Expectation Trap
Avoid the pitfalls of unrealistic weight-loss goals.

One of the beauties of following the Atkins Nutritional Approach™ is that you can individualize it to suit your goals, your temperament and your lifestyle. You also need to apply a touch of realism to the grand scheme. Don't be trapped by expectations. This is a typical vulnerability found in people who repeatedly fail at weight loss. They have a preconceived notion of how a weight-loss plan should progress and demand perfection or, at least, a steady and predictable progress that can't necessarily be achieved—even by doing Atkins.

Your experience will not be like your sibling's or your parents'—and certainly not like your spouse's. You have a body that's unlike any other body, with a unique history, and as you advance in years it will not behave exactly the way it did when it was 18. And, sad but true, that bod may never be a "perfect 10."

But you can make it the best body possible if you don't fall into the trap of demanding a perfect figure and a weight-loss schedule that exists only in your head. You can succeed only if you forgive yourself your missteps, rather than calling the game a failure and withdrawing to the sidelines. The same goes for the fact that you'll hit plateaus, lose a little ground or sometimes lose more slowly than you'd like. You will most likely succeed by doing Atkins, but each one of you will succeed differently, at a different pace.

Here are three more pitfalls that you should know about just to make sure you avoid them:

Getting on the scale four or five times a day is a form of slow torture. Even the most effective weight-loss plan can't produce a change every few hours, nor even guarantee that you'll lose weight each day. The human body doesn't work that way. By doing Atkins, you're making highly favorable changes to an immensely complicated system. Your metabolism will decide how quickly you lose. There is, unfortunately, no little Dr. Atkins inside you ordering your metabolism to take off precisely three-quarters of a pound a day. The ultimate proof the plan is working is that you see a steady loss over a significant period. And you may notice a change in the fit of your clothes before you see it on the scale. You simply must not demand mathematical exactitude.
To think that the present will be just like the past is another mind trap. The statement "But I'm not losing the way I did 10 years ago" should set off alarm bells. It isn't 10 years ago, Ace. We all wish we were 10 years younger. The normal pattern of human aging is that we find it easier to stay slim when we're young, and it gets harder as the decades pass. Unfortunately, this rule applies to you, too.
The same thing goes for exercise. Sometimes people with a fair degree of metabolic resistance find that to lose at a decent speed they have to exercise (which you shoulc do anyway). Then they say, "But back in 1994, I lost 20 pounds in two months without exercising." Get real. It's not 1994. Send all complaints to Father Time, Post Office Eternity.

Remember how individual your body is, and you should be forearmed against any other personal mind traps you encounter. This is heavy psychological stuff, and we all face it. Yet a high percentage of people do succeed doing Atkins—permanently. How?

Here are some mind traps you must learn to avoid:

using food as an emotional comfort
quitting the program altogether if you've cheated
eating less than three times a day
doing what other people want instead of what's right for you
being afraid to ask family and friends—or even a psychotherapist—for support.