This week's diet is a bit different:

Breakfast: Start with 2 glasses of H2o a 1/2hour before, as always. 2 slices whole wheat bread with a couple slices of light cheese and tomato.

Snack: Some fruit a couple hours later.

Lunch: A green vegetable cooked with 100 grams of lean meat (per serving). Lots of salad (no dressing). A slice of whole wheat bread.

Snack: A serving of low-fat yogurt.

Dinner: Same as lunch.

Evening: some fruit.

NOTE: Be sure to drink 2-3 liters of water per day!!!

- Start the morning with two glasses of water Breakfast (8-9am): A toasted sandwich of 2 slices of wheat bread, a couple slices of low-fat cheese and tomato -or- A glass of milk with meusli with herbal tea, no sugar

Snack (11am): A serving of fruit.

Lunch (12-1:30pm) After drinking at least two more glasses of water, a serving of meat, chicken or fish (serving size depends on which one you choose, however a serving is usually the size of your fist), and a large amount of salad (this is no iceberg lettuce, one or two tomatos, cucumber, some olives, one carrot, no corn, one tablespoon of olive oil or some balsamic vinegar for dressing).

Snack (4pm) A single serving of yogurt and a serving of fruit.

Dinner (6-8pm) 1 serving of cooked vegetables (potatoes and corn are not vegetables, these can be green bean, peas, brocolli, spinach, etc.. about 4 large spoonfuls is a serving), a large amount of salad, a slice of wheat bread.

Snack (9pm, this is if you really need it) A serving of fruit.

NOTE: ATLEAST 2.5 liters of water per day is a must!!!

This diet is for a steady two weeks: Breakfast: With 2 glasses of water a 1/2hour before, 2 slices of whole wheat bread with a couple slices light cheese and tomato. Snack: Some fruit a couple hours later. Lunch: A serving of chicken or fish, lots of salad. Snack: Some fruit. Dinner: A serving of chicken or fish with lots of salad. Evening: some fruit.

This week is half-detox, half-protien diet:

For the first 4 days:

- Start the morning with two glasses of water Breakfast (8-9am):some fruit, herbal tea, no sugar

Snack (11am): A serving of fruit.

Lunch (12-1:30pm) After drinking at least two more glasses of water, a large amount of salad (this is no iceberg lettuce, one or two tomatos, cucumber, some olives, one carrot, no corn, one tablespoon of olive oil or some balsamic vinegar for dressing).

Snack (4pm) A single serving of fruit.

Dinner (6-8pm) a large amount of salad.

Snack (9pm, this is if you really need it) A serving of fruit.

For the remaining 3 days:

Breakfast: (after two glasses of water) two slices of wheat bread with a couple slices of low-fat cheese and tomato.

Snack: a serving of fruit

Lunch: lots of salad with a serving of lean meat or fish.

Snack: a serving or yogurt and fruit.

Dinner: lots of salad with a serving of lean meat or fish.

Snack: a serving of fruit.

NOTE: ATLEAST 2.5 liters of water per day is a must!!!

I did try this diet but it was before my surgery when losing weight wasn't so hard. I can say that it worked, I lost about 10 lbs. in 2 weeks, and then I stopped since I didn't need to lose any more and normally don't have a problem maintaining. It does make you really tired though, you feel like you are constantly working. However, I don't recommend this or any other diet that cuts out entire nutritional groups because they usually have bad side effects and you can gain back the wieght very quickly if you stop the diet. Atkins consists of 4 phases, it is based on the idea of eating nearly no carbs so that the body will shift directly to burning fat, since this is what it uses when there are no carbs left to burn. Also the sweeteners used in place of sugar/carbs are known to cause cellulite and retain fat. PHASE 1: This begins with a two-week "induction phase" to shift your body into fat burning. The general rules of this phase are: lots of protien and fat (chicken, fish, eggs, meat, mayo, butter, olive or veg. oil), less than 20g/day of carbs (12-15 should be from veggies), absolutely no bread fruit pasta starchy vegs or grains, no beans or nuts, only eat foods on atkins 'acceptable list' in the amounts shown, always use a carb counter, use sweeteners, stay away from caffeine, drink more than 2lt. water per day, take a multivitamin (but no iron). PHASE 2: Here you start adding 5g. more of carbs to the original 20 each week (so the 3rd week of your diet you move your carb intake to 25g/day). Basically, you keep adding using different acceptable foods until you stop losing weight. How ever many grams you're taking in at that time, this is the number you need to stay under in order to keep losing weight. PHASE 3: After continuing to lose weight for some time on phase 2, you will again start to increase your carb intake each week, but this time by 10 grams/week (because in this time that original number where you stop should have gone up). When you find the amount where you're not losing more weight, stay there if you want to maintain or drop back down for a couple of months to keep losing. PHASE 4: When you're done losing weight, go back to the grams of carbs you found you stopped losing weight at in phase three. Maintain this number for your carb intake for the rest of you life to stay at that weight.