Hi _________________,

The core idea of the diet is very simple: Eat less than 30g of net carbs per day (net carbs = total carbs minus fibre) and get the majority (60%+) of your daily calories from fat. The fat keeps you fuller, longer, and also tastes so damn good that you'll never want to go back to a regular diet.

Here are the resources I found that convinced me to try a Keto diet (a.k.a. LCHF, Low-Carb/High-Fat).

Reddit is a huge social-news/discussion website with many sub-communities, including ones for weightloss. This is where I first discovered Keto.
http://www.reddit.com/help/faqs/keto

LCHF is very popular in Scandinavian countries, and here's a Swedish's doctor's English page on the topic:
http://www.dietdoctor.com/lchf

Here's a pretty long, detailed page on the topic:
http://josepharcita.blogspot.com/2011/03/guide-to-ketosis.html

Here is one of the best sources of low-carb recipes. I don't tend to use these directly, but they helped me get a sense of what I should be eating.
http://genaw.com/lowcarb/recipes.html

And finally, this is what finally convinced me to try. This is a presentation by a professor and dietary researcher at Stanford who conducted one of the largest, long-term studies of various popular diets including Atkins (which isn't what I do exactly, but it's low-carb in any case). The professor is a granola-eating, vegetarian hippy type who definitely has no bias towards Atkins.
The video is fascinating and informative in all kinds of different ways, but most importantly it shows that not only do you lose weight on low-carb diets, you also end up with better blood pressure and cholestrol levels than on low-fat diet...which is absolutely astonishing! The video also has some extremely important insights on people who are insulin sensitive vs insulin resistant and the impact that different diets have on them, which definitely clicked with me because my vegetarian wife and I generally ate very healthy (according to conventional wisdom) and I couldn't lose any weight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eREuZEdMAVo

Here's the website that I use to get my daily totals and also track my weight:
http://www.livestrong.com/myplate/

Here was a typical day when I was just starting out:

Breakfast
	2 eggs, 2 slices of bacon, tomato slices
	- or -
	Leftovers from dinner.
	- or -
	Whatever I'm packing myself for lunch.

Snack
	Celery with full-fat cream cheese
	 - or -
	Dill pickles and cheese
	 - or -
	Nuts (almonds are ideal, peanuts are a little carby)

Lunch
	Cold-cuts, cheese, olives, pickles, tomato
	 - or -
	A salad from Subway, with cheese and bacon and full-fat caesar or ranch dressing.
	 - or -
	Tuna salad (with real, full-fat mayo) and avocado

Snack
	Same as morning.

Dinner
	Steak or ground beef or pork chops or boneless chicken thighs
		with
	asparagus or mushrooms or brussels sprouts or avocado or cabbage or collard greens or caesar salad
	(top veggies with real butter, or a cream sauce, or chopped bacon, as desired.)

Desert
	Whipped cream (35% cream + Splenda + whip it good) and sugar-free jello or a handful of berries


As you lose weight, you need less and less food.  I have no appetite for breakfast and snacks anymore, so I skip them.  This is pretty common on keto, actually, since you no longer have blood-sugar swings and you don't need to eat constantly. You only get "legit" hungry.  This keeps you in a "fasting" state longer, which is where you burn a lot of fat.