hi tany, thanks for sharing and for your support, i will try to find your journal as i am also new to this website. and congrats on your weight loss, that is great and very inspirational. there is no way i can do atkins, i tried, i couldnt wait out the withdrawls. and on cad before i did go nuts on the reward meal, and thought since i wanted to lose weight so bad, that i would be able to control it. nope, i was wrong. i like somersizing but i feel i still eat to much of the legal foods. i would just like to be able to control my appetite on any program i am on. i am not a big meat eater and i dont like any fish, so food for me was to limited on atkins. i would like to be able to somersize and just learn to eat less and eat more lean meats.