I have a friend who with her new Atkins shape, likes to preach low carb to everyone. As she is a cab driver, she can lock the doors and have a captive audience. If you get in her cab to get your sausage and chips (french fries) from the takeaway, you come back in her cab with just the sausage.
I wondered if Dr Atkins had her on his payroll. As I'm stubborn it actually put me off low carb for awhile. But Hey she was living proof that it worked. So perhaps you can't come to low carbing until you've read the book and are ready to do battle- and french fries are just something you stare and drool at through the Macdonalds window.