Why we are eating the low carb way!

Recently, as I gazed at the wedding pictures of my daughter's wedding, I realized just how heavy I have become over my adult life. To the tune of almost forty-five pounds and my husband is also significantly overweight as well.

I had begun to follow the postings in the alt.diet.support newsgroup and noticed how many were following either the Atkins or CAD diet plan and were being successful.

I stopped at our local library and picked up Dr. Atkins New Revolution Diet Plan book and began reading it. The more I read, the more I realized that both of us eat lots of carbohydrates! And there is a history of diabetes in my husband's family as well so he had more potential for health problems.

We both decided to give this way of eating a try and boy, are we surprised!

Not only are we losing weight, but through some serious research, we are learning that we have been eating wrong for a very long time.

I will not try to explain the diet plan to you but refer you to pick up Atkin's books for the full explanation of his food plan. Instead I would like to share some revelations we are experiencing and some of our new found recipes. This is a very simple way to eat and the results are wonderful.

Below, are some of the meals and recipes we are enjoying. Starred items have recipes listed: