2nd day on diet atkins!! is really hard!!

since you only need to take off a few pounds, why not try the south beach diet? i think it's a bit easier than atkins in that you're allowed fruit. i was on atkins for about 6 months and lost 80 lb., but i needed to lose far more than that and found the diet easy to do.

Starting any sort of regimine is tough, your body is just so used to doing things other ways. I'd rather follow a paleolithic eating plan- basically the same kind of thing, banning thigns like grains and what-not. Good thing is you can eat fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds, and meat. I at as much of the allowed foods as I felt like, exercised, and I still burned off a bunch of fat, while putting on muscle. Plus, it is more of an lifestyle and not diet, so it is easier to stick with and continue on with.