About your plan to stay on Induction until August: you may get very tired of eating mostly protein if you don't add the veggies.

And your body may adapt to the low carb level and react by stalling even though you don't add carbs. That's one of the frustrating things about staying that low for a long period of time. Also, some people find they lose better if the carbs are somewhat higher - strange but true.

You are asking this 'do I have to eat veggies' question all over the board and most of the answers I have seen say: yes. All the books say 'yes'.

And most of the other questions you ask are in the Atkins book. So how about going back and rereading the book? Once is not enough in most cases. There is so much information in the book that it takes several readings and many times referring back to it.

Sounds as though you are already losing well. Don't wait until you are down to 200 before you start taking care of the health stuff too.