Published in 1965, seven years before Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution, this is syndicated political columnist Joe Alsop's account of successfully losing weight on a carbohydrate restricted diet. He called his approach "the Martini drinker's diet," but according to his account, he drank far more alcohol than a couple of Martinis - prodigious quantities that would shock us today. But he still lost weight quickly and wrote that he suffered no hunger or other ill effects while on the diet.