Hello Softwalker, I too am in search for a diet that I can live with. I will only relate my Atkins experience. It tool about four days for me body to start burning fat for fuel and had run out of Glucose. I felt fine and was generally feeling energized. I would pig out at breakfast and eat eggs and a fistful of bacon and was still losing weight. It is a qualitative diet. Not quantitative. If you eat anything that turns to glucose your body will revert back to burning it. Long story short, I was tripped up by craving an apple, not your ordinary,every day, run of the mill, average craving, but get in the car and drive to wherever you have to and eat an apple. I'm not disciplined enough, Mayby if Rambo and GI Jane had a child? Good Luck, Ken in Texas.