The first time i started to do LC was when i came back from my first year away at college. I tell ya, it is criminal what they serve in those cafeterias!!! Every day it was pasta and french fries and potatoes and waffles.... man!! even if you almost starved yourself you could be sure to gain the freshman 15. So i read the PP book and i did it for three weeks and lost about 10 lbs. I was lookin good again but once i stopped i started eating whatever i felt like(like i did before i went away to college, which didnt make me gain anything pre-first-year-of-college, but after that one lousy year it was all downhill from there) and i gained weight again. I tried to do Atkins a few times but it really made me way too ill to continue, so now i am PP again, which i believe is the ideal plan for me because i loooove fruit and i like to have at least one piece per day. I have lost about 7 lbs in the past two weeks i have been doing it and i have energy and i am alot more upbeat than i am when eat like the carb addict that i am. So hopefully in about 5 months or less i will be at goal weight(just in time for summer!) I want to get to 135 and i think that will be a good weight for me because i was 135 when i was a junior in high school(5 yrs ago) and i thought i looked pretty darn good. So good luck to everyone else who is starting PP or who has been on it for awhile. Believe me, with all the LC and sugar free foods there are in the supermarkets now, I firmly believe that LC is just getting easier and easier