From what I have seen over the past year not only in these forums but also from co-workers is this:

People lose the weight they wanted, then treat this as a diet and go off of it. Learning NOTHING about proper eating habits, nutrition. It's like the totally forget why they went on Atkin's. Then months maybe years later they gained it all back with extra and try it again.


In order to be successful you MUST change your eating habits for LIFE. Not just while trying to lose the pounds. I am not sure why some people don't understand this. The more you yo-yo back and forth, the older you get and the slower your metobolism is going to get, thereby making it harder and harder to lose the pounds. Pretty soon your system won't even respond to the induction level's of Atkin's.

Pretty sad actually.

Don't look at this as a short term solution to losing weight, but a lifetime goal of eating healthy, feeling great and living life worry free of gaining.