The Detroit News. Success of Atkins diet is in the calories Followers of the Atkins diet pile on the meat, yet lose weight on the low-carb eating plan. They found less than 1 percent had followed a diet similar to the Atkins program. Allan Green, director of the institute, says the study demonstrates that people lost weight because they cut calories.
Weight loss is still calories in and calories out.
We don't know what would happen if you followed it for years. What we found is that it seems to work for short-term weight loss.