LOL....yes, us atkinites are a bunch of carb-starved freaks stealing fruit from our pets!
I have one...I started a couple weeks before my birthday. A friend of mine at work...who struggles with her weight and I watch her repeatedly making the same mistakes with WW over and over again...wanted to buy me a birthday present. She said she was at the grocery store and saw all kinds of Atkins products and wanted to make me a gift basket full of shakes and bars!
I politely said thank you for the thought, but this diet is more about whole foods and that I really had no use for the bars and shakes.
That is something that really bothers me about those products being available...it gives people the wrong idea about this diet.
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Started: 3/2/09
~280~270~260~250~240~230~220~210~200~190
Realistic Final Goal: 190
Stretch Goal: 140
Successfully did Atkins in 1998 using 1992 copy of the book...before it was "hip". Lost 60lbs, exercised daily, felt and looked great. And then I moved in with a junk-food loving man, my mom got sick and passed away, then I suffered a spinal cord injury, and junk-food dude left me...and now I weigh 292lbs. That's 22lbs MORE than I weighed the first time around. It's 10 years later...I know this will work for me again.