Hey Dot...I just started the Atkins diet.. I'm waiting for the book to come but I know the basics... and if I don't go get candy, I'll stay on it...there's sugar free candy but it's dangerous for your stomach..no, seriously.. [Frown] . but that's a WHOLE 'nother story and quite graphic too......one of my girlfriends is having great success on it too. I think she's lost 20 lbs in about three weeks. I think I may have lost 10 in the last week...but I suppose I'll really be able to tell after a few weeks, not the first. I could stand to lose a whole person off my .... well my ass could feed a small country, I'm pretty sure... so I don't know... a person I guess.