So where in the book is this high protein diet?

I go by Dr Atkins New Diet Revolution - the European version - and I have been eating a lot of fresh salads and vegetables with a little fruit as I can eat 80 gm of carbohydrate a day, which is a lot of salad. I might have two eggs and maybe 5 or 6 oz of meat in a day. Some days I swap for some cheese or fish

I will probably go on eating it for the rest of my life.

It is perfectly sustainable and perfectly natural.

It is not high protein - it is possibly considered high in fat, because 'as everyone knows' eating fat makes you ill and obese - just a pity that decades of low fat eating has brought on an epidemic of super fat people with heart problems and diabetes.

Personally I would never give up doing Atkins even if the only benefit was the look of disbelief when anyone takes my blood pressure.

I have been know to have fits of uncontrollable laughter when they still don't believe it after the third attempt.

If the weight I have lost is 'all water' - well fine - it is still weight.

Ok - my waist measurement is still too large - when I do lose inches there my body reacts and moves fat from elsewhere to park it on my equator and plump it up again. All my family are the same shape in old age, and in youth as well really, I have some really good suede skirts I used to wear in my 20s which would make really good handbags now. I had a 24 inch waist, so did my mother, all my aunties and my sister, at that age.

At least it is not 50 inches any more.

I am sure that the imaginary Atkins diet has been discredited - but I'm pretty certain that if you ever try the real version you'll wish you'd done it years ago.