yes, the diet was much different in the 1970's, it was much more like atkins than any other diet i've found. it is now a low fat/high carb diet much like weight watchers.

i've been staying with atkins, just looking for that old formula that seemed to work so well for me back then. atkins is very easy for me to follow, because i'm never hungry like on other diets, but like the other ones its working slowly. i guess i really just need to get moving and exercise more.

thanks everyone for the advice.