Why I stopped Atkins

First off let me say that I do believe that Atkins is a good diet program and I have been very successful on the program before (ok only my first attempt - more on this in a bit). Things have change metabolicaly that Atkins no longer works for me.

• I was feeling nauseaous from all the fat that was in the diet.
• I had NO energy at all. I felt like I was on the verge of falling asleep all the time.
• I had lost my mental focus of seeing my goal and mentally cloudy overall as well.
• I began to GAIN weight.

Two weeks of incudtion and I lost ZERO pounds and I felt like crap. I followed the program to the letter and even re-read the book just to be sure. In the end it was an easy decision to make so I went back to what worked.

I had also seen some references to the "Golden Shot". Basically it means that you get one good shot at doing Atkins and any attempts after that don't work. Not sure why it happens but looking back at my attempts I could see that it was happening with me. So there was even more reason to switch back to what I was doing before. Dammit I have a schedule to meet. :P (I'm teasing about the schedule bit, it's just a goal not a deadline)