I totally forgot the main thrust of the message... when I was reading parts of the book (Atkins).. he explained that when you eat carbohydrates they turn into fuel for your body and that's what your body burns and as we all know, if you don't burn all those calories/carbs that you shovel in, they are soooooooon to be stored in the great parking garage of the hips. When you deprive your body of carbs it starts in on the stored fat. So basically, what that means to me is that every time I pass up the bread, every time Ben and Jerry and I don't sit down to dine together, my garages are being emptied......that did it for me.