Atkins Diet?

There is a great meatball recipe on the Atkins website, which combined with a low-carb tomato sauce would make a nice dinner.  (I know there's one out there with only like 2 carb grams, but I don't recall which one it is.)

I tried Atkins for a week, but didn't lose any weight, and since you're supposed to lose in the first week I quit.  Plus I wanted a drink.  Plus I was irritated with eating loose cooked hamburger for dinner.

But I felt good, and was almost never hungry.

See, what I find interesting is, all these diets are low-calorie.  Atkins, the Zone, South Beach, whatever...they fill you up with low-cal stuff.  Of course people on Atkins consume less calories, because after the third or fourth day you just aren't that hungry.  (At least I wasn't.  I'd mix a can of salmon with some cream cheese-delicious, btw-and not even finish itcuz I was full.)

So good luck, and like I said the Atkins website has tons of recipes, coded for what phase they are appropriate for.  

Are a lot of low carb friendly products easily available in the UK? I use things like protein isolates and TVP to cook/bake with and I don't know how difficult it will be to find there once I move.

It depends on the size of the city you live nearby. I couldn't find anything here, but it's a small town, and by the time I made my way through the healthfood stores in Cambridge I just gave up. I haven't seen TVP, but then again I haven't *looked* since I only used TVP sparingly in recipes... someone else might know better than I. As a whole though, the uK has MUCH less "specialty" products for low-carbing, which I found was quite nice actually since it made me eat more whole foods and rely less on the fake stuff.

I try to avoid ready made products but I do love my protein isolate I can fake a cake and not feel so left out when we have parties at work and such.