That Atkin Diet works. I' m 54 and been on it since January and have dropped 19 pounds and am at 222 at my lowest from 241 in Jan. I just went to my doctor and my trygl. dropped from over 600 down to 250 and every thing else went down also but I can' t recall the numbers. He thought it was interesting I could lose weight like i did eating all the wrong stuff and do so well on my test. Read the book and stick with the diet and if you are a meat lover it should be easy. I' m trying to drop to under 200 but I think that will take riding the bike and exercising more to make it but so far so goodl.