Atkins diet

[Mgv]

Someone on the horizon website brings up a good possibility:

asked about the Montaignac diet, and why it appeared to work. The answer was blindingly simple. "Any ABC type diet has a high chance of success" was the response. "So, what is the ABC diet?" I asked. "On Monday you eat as much as you want beginning with the letter A, on Tuesday with the letter B, and so on. The issue is it forces you to think about what you eat."

I suggest that the Atkins diet doesn't control calories by suppressing the appetite through protein, but it controls calories by limiting the breadth of opportunity to buy and consume calories, because one needs to think about what is a protein/fat etc. Given the need to think about it, there is more opportunity to reject the possibility of buying/consuming more calories (or vice versa, there is less opportunity to accept the dessert/starter etc).

I would be interested in your opinion on this, and would be delighted to hear if any scientific studies have been undertaken into this side of the picture, ie the psychological, rather than the physiological.

this makes far more sense to me, as I have seen it following a different sort of diet - you don't just eat or dirnk things now - now you actually think about it and selectively chose what you consume - all the things thus consumed have less over processed rubbish in them, and consequently lower calories.