The 60g a day starting level is for those who only have a few pounds to lose, he does suggest for those who have more to go through induction.

It is more for maintanance, having easy to reference tables on what you should eat often, in moderation, and rarely.


I got the impression from the book though that it was written to please critics and those who aren't doing the diet as written or having trouble with it. He focuses alot more on the extras you can have on maintanace, and healthy fats instead of saturated.

He also states that in OWL and premaintanance you will reduce protien and fats as you raise carbs. In DANDR he specificaly states you should only be having adiquet protien and high fat, so when you raise carbs, you lower fat while keeping protien the same. I think the first statement was written into Atkins for life, for those who were having massive amounts of protien instead of following the high fat plan.