Try this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0038NN3B4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
It's Atkins, but it's been tweaked by Volek, Phinney and Westman. It's clear, it's easy to follow, and it's less "sciencey" than Art and Science. It's a really good place to start for someone who just wants something that works.
Thanks ;)
If anyone wants to learn and be entertained at the same time, find his videos on YouTube. He has a knack of explaining the rocket science behind all this in term a layman can understand.
He wrote the sequel to the first Atkins book.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0038NN3B4/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
Yes. I lost 45 lbs eating several hundred more kcal than the calculator recommends.
For some reason, the calculator has all these confusing activity level settings that you're supposed to ignore. Always do sedentary, they say. The guy who made it should just get rid of it and assume sedentary.
Sedentary makes already too low kcal targets even lower.
An alternative is to multiply your weight by 15 to get your maintenance amount. Multiply by 11 to 13, depending on if you're active, to get a target # of calories at a healthy deficit.
Or you can do what Atkins, and the guys who wrote the updated Atkins diet book, suggest: don't bother counting calories.