Atkins Success Story
Dorothy Bright - Age 28 - Canada
My mom started me on Atkins. It saved my self-esteem, and probably much more....
Cas O'Connor - Age 38 - Georgia
Oh my, YES, I have lost weight and gotten healthy thanks to Dr. Atkins' work....
Alexis Abbott - Age 26 - Utah
I finally decided I wanted to lose the weight. Instead of bombarding myself with too many changes all at once, I decided to just focus on nutrition....
Brian Wiley - Age 36 - Ohio
I started Atkins one year ago and I have lost 80 lbs....
Mandy Snider - Age 35 - Wisconsin
There I was, standing on the beach trying to hide behind my daughters because I hated how I looked....
Christopher Hampton - Age 38 - Michigan
I started Atkins in April of 2008 when I was at my heaviest weight of 355 lbs....
Michelle Sebio Savje - Age 42 - Massachusetts
I fell in love and got heavy along with my husband before we got married....
Marlene Groennert - Age 63 - Illinois
First of all, I have been fat off and on since childhood. My poor mother weighed in at about 350 lbs. and was 5’ 5’, always ill and always a great cook....
Anne Gardner - Age 39 - Wisconsin
In the spring of 2004, I was at the highest weight of my life – 325 lbs. I was only 33 but I was finding I couldn't breathe walking up a simple flight of stairs, my knees hurt all the time, my back hurt and I was constantly tired....
Wesley Kipp - Age 46 - New York
My Atkins journey started like many others. At 196 lbs. and only 5’ 5”, I was overweight and knew it. The weight came on gradually. Life just seemed in the way and I got into some bad habits....
Tim Johnston - Age 38 - Michigan
As a principal, I often have students in my office. But not long ago, two young men came to see me who weren’t summoned for disciplinary reasons or to discuss their grades. They came to me seeking advice. They were overweight, and were beginning to experience the social difficulties of lugging around those extra pounds. Why did they come to me? Because they had witnessed my loss of more that 100 pounds on the Atkins program....
Sue Bloomfield - Age 46 - Arizona
I started the Atkins diet 4 days ago at 172 lbs. and I’ve already lost 10 lbs. Although I haven’t been on Atkins for a long time, I feel that this is a lifetime approach for me. No more counting calories or watching my fat intake....
Scott Flood - Age 48 - Idaho
I started the Atkins system around mid-February of 2009. I read the book first, and then planned my attack on fat. I stripped the cupboard of high-carb fare and began the Induction phase....
Ruth Simkin - Age 64 -
“I can’t stand to live like this one day longer.” I turned to face my new doctor, my new endocrinologist, and took a deep breath....
Natasha Lee - Age 27 - Iowa
I have been heavy my entire life. I can't say there was one event that triggered obesity for me. I was always “the fat kid.” When I was a senior in high school, I worked really hard and lost 80 lbs. I was able to keep it off for about two years. But poor diet decisions, excessive eating out and lack of exercise began to take its toll....
Marlene Bickar - Age 57 - Washington
After yo-yoing for years, I took a trip to my local bookstore and started browsing through the weigh loss books that were available. WOW, there were so many. While looking through the books, The Atkins Revolution to losing weight caught my eye....
Marilyn Johnson - Age 40 - Washington
After years of struggling with uncontrolled hunger and emotional overeating, I decided to change my life. I went with Atkins because the information was FREE and because the science made sense to me. I also ran it by my M.D. who told me that being overweight was much more dangerous than limiting carbs. She told me to "go for it,” and I did....
Larry Wagner - Age 39 - North Carolina
I got on the scale back in Feb ‘09 and it said 208 lbs. In my entire life, I had never been over 200 lbs. Needless to say, I was devastated. My back hurt all the time and I had no energy. A friend of mine told me about Atkins....
Fran Bennett - Age 67 - Michigan
The doctor told me, “One more blood test like this one and you are a diabetic.” My sugar was 136. I weighed 248 lbs. and was 5 foot 5 inches tall. My daughter was on Atkins and losing weight, so I decided to give it a try....
Charles McLamb Jr - Age 41 - North Carolina
At 402 lbs. I was the largest I’d been in my entire life. It seemed that I could never feel full when I ate. Being overweight, I saw my health begin to deteriorate quickly. I was young, but my legs and ankles started giving me a lot of problems....
Bilal Nasir - Age 29 - Georgia
I had been overweight since I was 10 years old. All through my teens into my early 20’s, I had led a largely sedentary lifestyle and survived on a diet heavy on sugar and carbs. Chances are if it were sweet, salty or greasy, I’d have a double helping of it....
Ashley Mangum - Age 23 - Washington
Weight has never been an issue to me. I've managed to get through life as the funny friend and life of the party. Looking back at pictures, I never realized how big I really was....
Evelyn Caballero - Age 58 - Puerto Rico
When I was younger, I tried many diets to help me lose weight. When I decided to do the Atkins diet, everyone started warning me to be careful. They considered it a “dangerous” way to lose weight, warning that eating too much meat and greasy products could be harmful for my health....
Jennifer Leckstrom - Age 28 - Philadelphia
I tore my "Miss New York" sash off and stormed out of the room, straight into mother's arms. I wasn't enraged over losing a beauty contest, but wounded that my two friends, Kara and Rachel, had just let me in on a secret – I was fat....
T.J. Freeman - Age - Georgia
I feel like I am going to die... That was me, at the end of 2006. I was just about to turn 30. I was the heaviest of my life – 354 lbs.. Wow, how does that happen? Why don't your friends and family tell you that you are "scary overweight?”...
Larry Nicholson Jr - Age 22 - Florida
I’ve struggled with my weight for a good portion of my life – since I was in middle school – moving from diet to diet with no positive results. I put my body through a ton of stress going on crash diets then gaining all the weight back...
Vernon Greene - Age 50 - North Carolina
I got my wake up call in 2007 when I lost a close friend to a heart attack. I knew it was only a matter of time before my body was going to say I've had enough....
Mark Fairgrieve - Age - Pennsylvania
I loved food. I overate for all the wrong reasons resulting in a steadily increasing waistline....
Mark and Serena Engelhart - Age - Canada
My husband and I started the Atkins program three years ago after seeing the book at our local bookshop, Chapters....
Audrey Askins - Age 65 - New Jersey
In 1993, I was an obese, 220-pound (5’7”), depressed, 50 year old woman, who was in a bad marriage. I wore a size 22 dress. I tried a lot of other diets, but nothing worked....
Inez J. Coleman - Age 53 - New Jersey
I have tried many programs, from Weight Watchers to Jenny Craig. They kept the weight off for a little while, but not for long. I had purchased the Atkins book about three years ago. It was just in my office collecting dust. I kept overlooking the book, because I was listening to others say that it was not a healthy program, and very hard to do. But I found they were wrong....
Kim Eidson - Age 43 - Missouri
I became a grandmother for the first time in January 2007 at the age of 42. I looked at my beautiful new granddaughter and felt terrible about myself. I weighed 326 lbs and was miserable. I had almost given up on losing weight and being able to keep it off....
Laura Bretherton - Age - England
I first began the Atkins diet over four years ago. I was intrigued by the idea and decided to buy the book so I knew what it was all about, alongside the recipe book and the carb counter. I was locked into the book and read it front to back....
Gloria Bianchi - Age - Ontario
I was a thin child. I married in 1977 at the age of 20, I weighed 108 pounds....
Cheri Lynn - Age - Illinois
Sometimes we get so caught up in our lives that we no longer see the self we're living in. We see ourselves every day, but we never SEE ourselves. I knew I was overweight, so I never thought of myself as thin. I also never thought of myself as THAT big either. But then, some before and after photos made me understand what the day-to-day me never saw....
Lisa Pelaez - Age - New York
In July of 2006 I took a trip to Florida. I was excited about the trip and I wanted to look nice to meet my husband’s family. I had a cute little outfit on – a white blouse with blue cargo pants and a kerchief in my hair – very summery looking. We had a great time. Sometime in August I found I could no longer zip up the Florida pants I had worn only a month before! Somehow I had gained 20 pounds in about four to six weeks. This was a full-blown crisis!...
Miss Johnson - Age - Delaware
I’m Italian and used to eat 3 plates of spaghetti and bread at one sitting, every Sunday, ate pretzels for breakfast, inhaled beets by the can during the day, and then wondered why I looked the way I did....
Kent Altena - Age 36 - Iowa
I was the typical overweight kid. My parents started charting my weight when I was 6 years old. I don't recall it helping, and I was usually the tallest slowest person in my class. By the time I reached high school, teenage hormones caused me to lose a lot of weight. During high school, I joined the National Guard and went through Basic Training. I weighed at that time about 180 pounds and ran my two-mile PT test in less than twelve minutes, which seems amazing to me now....
Vicki Kleber - Age 40 - Pennsylvania
I have always been a physically active person, even at my heaviest weight, I could jog two miles, and my husband and I are avid cross country skiers and kayakers. But in my late 30s my weight began to get out of control....
Brooks Hollemans - Age 30 - Michigan
My wife and I attempted Atkins in 2003, and we were successful for the minimal time we were using the approach. Unfortunately, late that year, our family experienced a series of very traumatic events....
Christina Preiss - Age 29 - California
Hi, my name is Christina and I started Atkins (for the second time), back in October 2007. I did the Atkins diet in 2000 with great success, but eventually gave up the lifestyle and gained all the weight back over the years. Last October I weighed 200lbs, now I am a svelte and happy 148lbs and still losing....
Sheila Thomas - Age 60 - Massachusetts
In the year 2000, at age 52, I was 35 lbs. overweight and unhappy with my size. I thought the fatigue I felt was a natural consequence of aging....
Jimmy Moore - Age 36 - South Carolina
At the age of 32, I needed to get my life back from the brink of an early grave. I had allowed myself to balloon up to a very unhealthy 410 pounds with size 62-inch waist pants, 5XL shirts, and on three prescription medications for high cholesterol, high blood pressure and breathing problems. I felt I was always destined to be fat....
Kilolo Simone Gause - Age 35 - Michigan
I suffered two tragedies in my early life, both caused me to lose a family member. My Father passed away when I was just three. Then, I lost both my brothers in a car accident. I was 13 at the time....
Tami Mungenast - Age 40 - New York
Today, I’m a Certified Personal Trainer and Nutrition Consultant. And I use the Atkins principals with many of my clients. I love helping people transform their bodies and realize their true potential....
Shelly Cochran - Age 43 - Nevada
I can honestly say, the Atkins Nutritional Approach is a great “weigh” to approach life....
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