My tuppenceworth is: Both start now. The benefits of the Atkins way of eating are to great to put off! Whilst your wife is recovering from her injury, she could be on the net having a really good look round this site, read some of the journals and get "phsyced" that way. Is that how you spell phsyced?

Re cooking and shopping, to my mind, doing Atkins makes both easier. Even a bloke could manage it (joking!).

If you start now, in a few weeks you both could have lost some weight and have a greater sense of well being! Why put that feeling off? If your wife is worried about not being mobile and therefore not losing as much weight, well, to be honest, I do very little in the way of exercise, and have lost 11lbs since the end of May.

Good Luck!