The Atkins Diet

It wasn't until 1963, after another ten years of gaining, that I suddenly realized, seeing myself in a photograph that I had three chins...So there it was. I was not longer a skinny kid. I was a fat man...

I was literally afraid of dieting. I was afraid of being hungry... I knew that I could never follow a low-calorie diet for even one day


These were thoughts written by Dr. Atkins in his first book he published in 1972. At the time he had these experiences he was a medical consultant educated as a heart specialist. Because he could not face a low calorie diet he started to look for alternatives and he discovered that were scholars out there who had suggested alternatives to low calorie dieting. Atkins immediately started digging deeper and found the inspiration for the diet he would create and that became known as the Atkins Diet. This diet did not focus on limiting calories but on limiting carbohydrates. Atkins called this a revolution. He felt this would be a solution for so many people like him who could not suffer through a low calorie diet. And he was right.
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