I Lost Twelve and a Half Pounds in Three Weeks.

This morning I weighed 151.5 pounds. It's January 27.

January 5--22 days or about three weeks ago--I weighed 164 pounds.

That's 12 1/2 pounds in about three weeks.

I'm almost to the lowest weight I ever reached on Atkins (150.5), except I get to eat fruit like apples and oranges and bananas, and I get to have grains like oatmeal or bread (just very small amounts of the latter--about one slice a day).

I'll see how far I get eating 1300-1500 calories a day. I'm hoping for 145 or even 143. That's what I weighed about twelve years ago when I was in my very early 30's. But at this rate, it doesn't seem impossible. Yes, the weight loss is slow after the first two weeks. But this is the way I want to eat for the rest of my life: reasonably, eating the good stuff, controlling the quantity.

--E. R. O'Neill