Has anyone here had experience with doing a low carb / Atkins style diet? I'm seriously overweight (dress size 22 last time I checked) and have been for about four years now. I'm also now 41, so need to sort it out before hitting middle-age and those dreaded hormones!

Currently I'm a wholefood vegetarian, but even 'healthy' eating isn't enough for me to start shedding weight, so despite my love of wholemeal pasta, rice and bread, I'm seriously considering exploring a low carb approach - either vegetarian (though I think that may be tricky) or pescetarian (eating fish but not meat) style.

Anyway, this isn't a request for general dietary or exercise advice (I know plenty about exercise and diet as I was a hard-core health freak during my 20's) I'm purely and simply interested in if you've tried low-carb and whether or not it's worked / is working for you!

Ta!