Hey! I'll hang my post here on the post marengo sent:

When I was doing some banking today, I found out that the teller is
on a low-carb WOE. Then she told me that the bank Manager as well as
the Loan Officer are both on low carbohydrate diets! I talked to
them and swapped lc stories for quite a while; they were telling me
about a lot of other business people in this small town who are doing
lc also ... an insurance broker; a maintenance worker, etc.

It's surreal to me because when I started Atkins three years ago it
was anathema. When someone was on a low-carb diet, it was right up
there on the "top-ten-list-of-things-you-want-to-keep-secret" just
ahead of cocaine addiction, child molestation, wife beating,
embezzlement and cross-dressing.

But with all the positive publicity in the past few months, Atkins has
seemingly been "outed" and is becoming mainstream. What's next -- a
TV show entitled "Low-Carb Eye For The Fat Guy?" ;-)

Kinda hard to keep low-carb in the closet when one of the fast food
chains in town is blabbing all over TV and radio about being able to
order any sandwich on the menu as "protein style" (no bun, more veggies)
I'm just waiting to see which chain is next to follow Spangle's lead.
--
Stephen S.
331/314/220
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