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[Jack Manfred]

Abba,

If you're going to do Atkins, you have to follow the letter of the law for the two-week induction phase. No sugar, no alcohol, no caffeine, no bread. Amazingly, I didn't have any withdrawal symptoms from going off caffeine (and Paigow will tell you that I drank a lot of Diet Coke.)

The Atkins bars are pretty tasty. Go down to Trader Joe's and pick some up. (You're a Bay Area GA, right? There's one in downtown SF, isn't there?) Breakfast is pretty easy: some eggs, or an omelet, or bacon or sausage. Eat a hamburger or chicken sandwich without the bun for lunch. Eat chicken with a salad and/or vegetables for dinner.

The reason that caffeine is verboten on Atkins is that caffeine causes your liver to secrete sugar into your bloodstream. The idea behind the Atkins Diet is to maintain regular blood sugar levels.

I also did Atkins essentially on a dare, and I've lost more weight than I care to admit. I really didn't find it difficult.

Notfromhere, I am skeptical about the long-term safety of the Atkins plan (and I'm on it right now), but don't throw up any links to vegan websites as "proof" that Atkins isn't safe. That's a group with an agenda, and the agenda is not to have everyone be healthy, it's to have everyone abstain from eating meat. Granted, if everyone was a vegan, we'd probably all be thin, but we'd also be fucking hippies. I'm not willing to make that tradeoff. Someone has to show those cows who's boss.

As for attendance in law school, all ABA accredited law schools are supposed to have attendance policies. In practice, lower-tiered schools generally enforce them more strictly than first-tier schools. The same goes for working during first year: technically not allowed during first year (during day programs). Of course, there's usually one teacher (at least) at every school that's a hardass and who will try to drop/flunk/ding someone. I'd like to win the lottery tomorrow night so I could have that professor fired once my alma mater hit me up for a piece of the cash.

You see what happens, Professor Larry?! Now you see what happens when you fuck a stranger in their last semester of law school?!