Atkins diet experiments who was in it is it useful?

hey ya i did the atkins diet a couple of years ago...i enjoyed it at the start but after 2 weeks of doing it i got feed up of just eating meat as im a not lover of meat...in them 2 weeks i lost just over half a stone i was so happy with my self, but it made me constepated so i got a bit worried...i came of the diet and the weight came back on faster than it came of it was a complete waste of time for me.......but i do no some one who was on the atkins diet she wasnt overly big when she started but she followed the book really well and tryed diffent sorts of meals and she loved doing it and she has been doing it for about a year and a half and she has lost a lot of weight..she was very happy with the outcome and she never became ill....i supose it just works diffent for diffrent people.......good luck if u do go for it.....x