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When I first encountered an Atkins Diet book, I was working in an office. I had been working there for five or six years and had accumulated a fair bit of excess weight. I had never been active in sport, but my previous job had been working on site, which brought with it a certain amount of physical activity ” just enough to keep me in reasonable shape. After five years of pen-pushing, I weighed 18 stone 12 pounds (264 lbs or 120 kg), up three stone and neither I nor my doctor were happy about it. Continue reading →

One of the most common, but nevertheless unexpected results of ‘doing’ the Atkins diet is the suppression of appetite. A lot of the advocates of the plan state that the between meal hunger pangs they used to have just vanish and quite rapidly too. This fact makes it a lot easier to remain on the diet and continue to lose weight. While other diets have their followers hungry between meals, the Atkins dieters obtain relief from continuous hunger. The Atkins diet, with its specific recommendation of foods and ingredients, has powerful appetite suppressing effects. Continue reading →