OK, thanks for the tips! We went out last night and bought a carb counter book and Atkins orig. book, as we just had the new cookbook. After reading some last night, my husband admitted that he had been drinking aprox 5 cups of coffee a day during work, and was only counting the carbs in the Equal packets. With each 6 oz cup of coffee he was having an additional .8 carbs a day. Also, I think that we are both going to watch the quantity of the items we consume with the artificial sweeteners in them, and try to reduce the amount of salty foods.