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Sherry from Illinois is 5' 7" tall and "in her 40's." Sherry was uncomfortable about publishing her weight, but did say we could print she has lost 54 pounds to date, doing the Atkins program. She has dropped from a size 2X to a 12. Her goal size is 10, and she is 10 pounds from her goal weight. Sherry started low carbing in April of 2002.

Weight Loss In Clubs & By Drugs: Scams & Gimmicks. We have been talking in the previous half dozen or so articles about diets and dieting. We've looked at plans and paraphernalia, machines and food combination diets, calorie counting and meals in cans. Then came weight loss clubs.

Success Stories Miki from Pennsylvania is 5′ 2″ tall and is 29 years old. Miki follows the Atkins program, and since July of 2002 she has dropped from 130 pounds and a size 8-10 to 119 pounds and a size 4-6. Her goal is to be 110 pounds and a …

Diet Doctors Chew Fat Over Obesity Friday October 20 DENVER (Reuters Health) – Two of America’s leading diet doctors faced off on Thursday in a sometimes acrimonious debate over the best way to solve one of the nation’s most vexing medical problems: the country’s staggering rate of obesity. But as …

Kelley from Indiana is 50 years old and 5' 7 1/2" tall. She is fairly new to the low carbohydrate lifestyle and follows Dana Carpender's plan for 50 grams of carbs a day as written in her book How I Gave Up My Low Fat Diet and Lost Forty Pounds!

Let Rani Merens show you that low carb cooking is fast, easy and inexpensive in Low Carb Cook's Corner! Low-Carb Tips and tricks and great recipes.

Tejinder from India is 37 years old and six feet tall. He began the Atkins program on August 12, 2002, weighing 214 pounds and with a 42-inch waist. Today he is nearing his goal weight of 175 pounds, currently weighing 185 pounds!

Low-carbers bemoan missing certain foods. I miss bread, I miss pasta, I miss chocolate, I miss pizza... potatoes... rice... stuffing... The list goes on and on. Here are some Low-Carb comfort foods recipes.

Last November featured PJ’s journey for "Success Stories." (https://www.carbsmart.com/pjillinois.html) At that time PJ had lost 140 pounds, dropping from a high weight of 313 pounds down to 191 pounds. Today, just 18 months from her low carbohydrate start date, PJ is a mere 4 pounds from her goal weight of 150! I thought it was time for an update on her progress, here is what she had to say.

Cathie from Florida is 5’ 5" tall and 36 years old. Following the Atkins program, she has dropped from 220 pounds to just 128 pounds. Cathie is a mere 18 pounds shy of her goal weight. She has "ungrown" her old size 2X clothes and now wears 9/10’s. And she did all this in just nine months!

Brian Pierce offers his slightly skewed view of low carbing and the world in general.

I love it when people take a recipe and run with it, with their own shifts and interpretations. James Beard once said, and I'm paraphrasing here, that baking is science, but cooking is art.