Hi all,

This is great to find an Aussie/NZ forum. I live in Victoria. I only lost 500g this week (weigh in every Friday morning).

I heard about Atkins a couple of weeks ago, but living in the country, it was a while before I could get the book, which I now have.

In the meantime, I searched my kitchen cupboard and found an old low-carb diet book put out by William Kaufman in 1965! I've been working on that principle for two weeks - 60g carb a day, and have lost 1.5kg.

Imagine how I'll do when I get on Atkins! I'm slowly wading through the book, the trouble is I don't get much time to read. However, until then I'll stick to low carbing.

The day after I got my Atkins book, I went up the street and bought a book in the Op-Shop for 40 cents - The Complete Book of Food Counts by Corinne T. Netzer and it has been so helpful.

Look forward to chatting now and then.

Alaine