what is unhealthy about meat and vegetables? Essentially that is what you eat on Atkins. Oh sure you can make it be really "high fat" if you want, but that part isn't essential. Meat, fish, chicken, and green veggys and you should be eating as healthy as anyone could ask for.

Atkins has a bad reputation because people really don't understand. They assume it is "high fat". In reality you were probably eating MORE fat when you were having french fries and potatoe chips and baked potatoes with sour cream and butter etc. When you cut out those carbage things, you find you eat way less fat as well as fewer carbs.

You must understand that you will go through sugar withdrawal when you first start, and you may NOT feel very good for as much as a week or so after starting the diet. But after that you should start to feel fantastic. Don't quit at the first sign of "not feeling good". Your body has to switch over from producing the types of enzymes needed to process carbs to the type of enzymes needed to process protein.

Give it some time.