Oh boy! I just love the responses! I love hearing people's improvements!

I started for weight loss. I, too, did the ultra low fat diet with a ton of exercise. I had:
-gas
-heartburn so bad I also had to sit up!
-weight gain, jeez, you'd think the steady gain would've gotten me to use my brain and not be a lemming, but.......
-staving feeling
-extreme fatigue
-extreme thirst

and probably more that I have forgotten as a mental block. I was thin until I was 20. I'm now turning 28 in September and I am determined to be 140 by then or near. I will go lower after this goal.

Like I said, I started this WOL as a last ditch effort to lose when nothing else worked. All of the other things stopped within a week.

I am so happy and grateful for this information and my friends here who have happily answered every question and doubt. I also am grateful that Dr. Atkins and all of the other LC authors didn't give up years ago, even when the government turned on them!

Happy LCing!! Amber