I find that vegetables are the key - because you can eat so much and enjoy different textures - so important when changing how you eat, and still be eating about 50 gm of carbohydrate each day and so losing weight.

So much of the dense carbohydrate food considered 'normal' or even essential is just empty calories - flour, sugar, sweetcorn, beans, fruits selected to be large and sweet. Carbohydrates are not essential - we can live off meat, but we don't have to, and as long as we avoid as many of the chemicals added deliberately or by pollution it mean we become healthier, and thinner with really very little effort. If I can do it anybody can. I tried to lose weight on conventional diets for decades, and then along comes Dr Atkins - why did no one ever tell me about low carb before?!!         

I keep meaning to get my cholesterol checked - I keep putting it off just for the pleasure I will have of seeing my doctors face when I eventually arrive in her office.

Anne