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I don't eat meat very often, and when I do it's during a full meal -- say, a pasta dish followed by meat and vegetables or something. Today, though, because of unusual circumstances that are not relevant here, I only ate two big pieces of filet mignon, medium rare. And a Coke. And only a few hours later I'm hungry as HELL.
I've found the opposite to be true - all protein makes me not hungry at all. Starch, on the other hand, makes me ravenous as hell. Not carbs, per se, but starches like potatoes and flour and rice -fills me up short term but makes me crazy hungry all day. Like, the worst thing in the world I could eat in the morning would be oatmeal or toast - then I am literally counting the minutes until lunch. But if I eat nothing or have, say, yogurt or eggs, then I'm fine.
I have cut down my carbs. . .and make sure to have some sort of protein with every food intake. . I AM feeling better and losing weight, although I don't identify as being on the "atkins diet."
Yes, my daughter used to refer to Atkins as the Pork Rinds & Diet Dr. Pepper diet, because that was the snack we ate at the drive in when we were on it. Godawful. And making hors d'oeuvres that were just slices of salami rolled up around cream cheese - ugh. Also, it didn't work, at least for me. My anecdotal experience is that it works okay for men, less well for women that I've known.
It works. It does lower your appetite. Like any diet, Men tend to loose more/quicker.
The kicker of it is, now that I'm kinda off of it, I have retained the sense that things like salami and cream cheese are "good" foods, but add in a bag of crackers, and it's just unhealthy and not weight loosing-ish. Weird.
K of P, that's all that really worked for me -- "move your ass" as in "burn more calories than you take in, and do it consistently until you see results."
I found that when I started throttling back on the caloric intake, my body interpreted that as incipient famine and kept on the pounds, but I didn't have as much energy. With steady exercise, my metabolism's ramped up to the point where I don't really see much weight gain from eating, even if it's not all balanced nutrition.
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