Hello and here's wishing you good losing on Atkins. The first thing to do is really read the book. All the laws are in there and much more easily understood than just asking questions.

Induction meals should be meat or fish, plus a few carbs at each meal. The wisest course is to keep it really simple for the 2 weeks. Lunch could be cold chicken breast with some green salad. Use oil for dressing or some mayonnaise. Dinner could be a steak or ground meat with 2/3 cup of allowed veggies (green beans, cauliflower, borccoli etc) and a small green salad. For breakfast, you could have eggs and bacon (any style, cooked in butter) or leftovers from other meals. Don't think that breakfast HAS to be breakfast foods. You could make an omelette with some leftover veg. & a bit of grated cheese.

Mayonnaise and mustard are fine to use. Salad cream is NOT good - too many carbs. Tomato ketchup has sugar.

Ifyou have read the Atkins Induction list, you know that cheese is limited to 4 ounces per day.

Atkins lists the vitamins he recommends. Everyone has to decide what they will do and can afford. Certainly a multivitamin is good. And since there is no vitamin C in the Induction, take that as well. Sorbitol is a form of sugar alcohol so when you finish the chewable type, buy something that is not sweetened - just a tablet that you swallow.

Truly the best advice you could be given is to get the book and read it several times. There is an edition which came out in Dec. 2002 which is the latest and has lots of information. Don't try to do Atkins just by reading this board because that would be very incomplete. The book will answer questions you haven't even thought of yet.

All the best.

BarB