Atkins is my diet of choice, despite the ongoing kerfuffle surrounding it. I am immensely chuffed at the moment, as I was weighed on Monday and I am still the same weight I was when I came off the diet in September. One of the major whinges about Atkins is that you regain the weight very quickly, but I suspect that the majority of this is due to people who do Atkins for only a couple of weeks and therefore do not change their eating habits longterm. I put 3 pounds on over Xmas period, but appear to have dropped it again without actually trying.

We are planning 2-3 months diet during the summer in order to drop another stone or so. The reason Atkins pleases me is that the prospect of this holds no doom or gloom, and I also know that it is almost certain to work.

WW seems very good provided you are intensely lawful. It provides too much choice and too many get out of jail free clauses for Jem - he would miscount all the time - but unsurprisingly it works wonderfully for Em.