Low Carb Newbie

Tom wrote:

I have to agree with most other posters on this topic - get the Atkins
book, read it carefully. Read it again carefully. Keep it around
you, and read parts that you didn't quite get the first time. Some of
it is quite dense reading, so it is good to let it sink in. You will
find your favorite parts for motivation.

One of the reasons it takes more than one reading is the directions
include stuff that's not obvious and that runs contrary to the
obvious.
Of course Dr A tried the obvious, the book is the benefit of decades
of effort on his part to find non-obvious stuff that works better than
the obvious.

It's not so much knowing what to eat and not to eat, but also to know
why the diet works. This and much more is all explained in the book.

Read the book to find a menu of what to eat, miss the ideas in the
book. Read the book and discover that it describes a process, find
the ideas in the book. Huge difference.

You can get the paperback for under 10 bucks, and have it with you for
the rest of your life. DO IT DO IT DO IT!

Reading the book (any of the good low carb books not just Atkins)
might
be the best thing you have done for yourself in the last couple of
decades.