[kasandrasikl]

I feel like the first few months I need to see major changes to keep me motivated.

I agree with Nik@Night. You should really do induction since that will get you started off seeing the results you need to keep you motivated. And coming from your current diet, I imagine it will seem luxurious! I did weight watchers, and Atkins is WAY better in my opinion. I am not even doing the diet right myself (currently reading the book so I can change that), but there is a thread near the top of this forum discussing a "2 month plateau" started by me. You can see my weight log in there to see how quickly I lost weight. I am currently stuck in my weight loss progress, but I suspect once I finish the book, I will see where I am messing up and have the opportunity to correct it.

So far, I have only seen few things i am doing wrong (like eating a lot of processed meats and too much cheese) but I have only read through the induction part currently (which I intend to skip unless I still am unable to break my plateau, then I will step back into Induction for the first time).

Even still, I am half way to goal, and just now cracking open the book for a FULL read. I think that is the best inspiration to really do the diet right, seeing that it works (like you said). My LDL (bad) cholesterol is also elevated which shouldn't happen, so I know I need to make some changes because the opposite should be what I see on Atkins. Once I start doing it right, it should work even better!