Featured Atkins Success Stories
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....