Weight Watchers or Atkins? What to do?

QUOTE=avabeth]My whole problem is sugar. I need to get it out of my body because it’s poisoning me. And I can’t do that on WW with the option of bread and things still there. Once the sugar’s gone, I can start adding the bread, but only in whole grains. And I will pay strict attention to the glycemic index.

… I’ve discovered that I just have a weird body and I need to combine several plans into one instead of concentrating on just one. And the sugar needs to be gone from my diet, period. Special occasions only (I WILL eat a piece of my own wedding cake;).

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We must have the same body type. Since starting on Atkins, and getting all the sugar out of my diet, I’ve lost weight and I feel better all over, health-wise. I’ve also stopped getting severe migraines.

Short story: My son is a Cub Scout, and when we were at Winter Camp (whole families, in a big lodge), I was getting a cup of coffee. One mom (who I don’t know well personally, and is sort of a New Age-y hippie type) was getting something to drink as well. She saw me putting Sweet & Low in my cup and started telling me all the terrible things about fake sweeteners (causes cancer, blah, blah, blah…) and that I should use regular sugar instead of chemicals. I just let her ramble for a minute or two, then after she told me that I would feel better if I used real sugar instead of that “horrible fake poison”, I just very calmly said, “I can’t eat refined sugar. It causes an adverse reaction and I get terrible migraines. Since I stopped eating excess sugars, I feel a lot better.”
Took the wind right out of her sails.

3 ladies in my office did a test on this for 6 months last year - WW, South Beach (Atkin’s Cousin) and Nutrisystem.

Nutrisystem blew them away as far as speed and total loss – but it was by far the hardest and most disruptive to her life. The Lady on it went off the special crap you are locked into eating and balloned up again so that now she is about where she was a year ago.

SB lost about 10 lbs more than WW, but complained more about the restrictions – the low-carb was clearly the hardest of teh two and the one that caused the most lifestyle disruption. Nutrisystem plans to join WW this year. SB has said a few times if she begins to actively diet again she’ll WW. So FWIW a second hand report of almost a head to head competition… all the women are 40-something SB was ‘heavy’ the other two were obese