What Your Answers Reveal

    First of all, I would find it hard to believe there could be a significantly overweight person who had no "yes" responses. If your affirmative responses form a pattern, I almost undoubtedly have a solution for your problem.
    So let's delve a little deeper. Do most of your "yes" responses place you in Group A? Then you have a metabolic problem, manifested either by an inability to lose weight or keep it off, or by hunger or the inability to achieve and maintain satiety (a feeling of being full or satisfied).
    If most of your "yes" responses were to Group B questions, you probably have some form of glucose intolerance. You may suffer from hypoglycemia-more accurately called unstable blood sugar, or, in some cases, pre-diabetes.
    If most of your affirmative answers were to questions in Group C, you probably have an addiction to the food or beverage you singled out. Another term for the phenomenon is "food allergy" or the more accurate term of "individual food intolerance".
    If the food or beverage you've identified as addictive contains carbohydrates, you have a carbohydrate addiction, and this book will provide you with more answers to your problems than you ever thought possible.

Three Facets of the Same Problem

    Individuals whose "yes" answers fell primarily in Groups A and B (and most of you C responders, as well) have a condition that is the common denominator among nearly all overweight people. It is called hyperinsulinism. Before I explain the significance of hyperinsulinism and the very good news of how easily you can tame it on Atkins, I want you to reflect on the significance of eating. Stop and ask yourself, "What else do I do in the course of a day that constitutes such a dramatic and intense alteration of my body as swallowing the food I do?"
    Between the time you rise and the time you go to bed, you put pounds of organic matter into your mouth. Your body runs on it. So don't be surprised that if you make bad choices, you'll pay a price.