I think the main impetus was when in June 2003 one of our customers who had lost a lot of weight came into our shop and I asked him how he had done it.
He told me about this amazing diet he had discovered when on holiday in Canada where you could eat as much eggs, bacon and meat as you like and lose pounds easily!!
He also told me that the rules for it were in a book called 'Dr Atkins Diet' so not really believing there could be a diet such as he was extolling and there must be some sort of catch I looked for the book the next day and bought a copy of DANDR.
Although the Atkins Diet had been around for nearly 30 years I had actually never read anything about it till then or even heard of it. Maybe in UK it was never as popularised as in the USA? The theory at the beginning of the book seemed logical so I carried on reading it.
Partway through the book I started to think that it sounded easy and nothing like the lowfat and other diets I had tried to follow on and off for most of my adult life. So as soon as I had read the chapter on induction I began and the rest is history!!!
Though it was not till I ventured onto the internet about 6 months later and discovered Atkins support boards in general and ADBB in particular that I realised I was not really doing it correctly but following my own interpretation of it
