Hello again Nancy,

Many people who object to a low fat version of Atkins talk about a phenomenon called 'rabbit starvation'. I've done a little research on this. Here is a quote from a web page devoted to the natural diets of native North Americans.

This trouble is worst, so far as North America is concerned, among those forest Indians who depend at times on rabbits, the leanest animal in the North, and who develop the extreme fat-hunger known as rabbit-starvation. Rabbit eaters, if they have no fat from another source—beaver, moose, fish—will develop diarrhoea in about a week, with headache, lassitude and vague discomfort. If there are enough rabbits, the people eat till their stomachs are distended; but no matter how much they eat they feel unsatisfied. Some think a man will die sooner if he eats continually of fat-free meat than if he eats nothing, but this is a belief on which sufficient evidence for a decision has not been gathered in the North. Deaths from rabbit-starvation, or from the eating of other skinny meat, are rare; for everyone understands the principle, and any possible preventive steps are naturally taken.”

I'm not saying this is a fate which awaits you but just that it is an issue you should know about. From what I can see you do eat some fats anyway.

Good luck,
Robert