Having been drummed out of a slimming club for not losing wieght on their regime, and suffered the attentions of well meaning health professionals with diets that don't work, I always felt that I was somehow fundamentally wrong.

Despite eating a healthy diet and taking exercise I put on weight until I was 119kg.

I then found the Atkins diet, and found that I was not resistant to losing weight, I am just very sensitive to carbs, so all that 'healthy' whole grain, starchy vegetables and sugary fruit was making me put on weight.

I can happily eat a couple of pounds of salad and low carb veges a day and lose weight. The health professionals, with no idea of what doing Atkins entails, disapprove.

Low carb diets have been tried and shown to work numerous times over a century or more, but the doctors don't want to know.

As it was following their advice that made me fat in the first place I really can't see how they are going to make people lose weight to order - their methods don't work.

Anne