I think the trick is to "listen to your body" after we eat.

How does it make us feel? How's our blood sugar, blood pressure, and CRP? Do we have a working system or a lot of tummy aches and gas, bathroom troubles and heartburn?

How do we sleep? How do we play? We have to look at the whole picture.

Before Atkins, I would battle through my afternoon feeling like someone had shot one of those sleepy darts into my back. Turns out, that was entirely due to what I ate for lunch. It didn't matter so much what I was in the mood for. I was tired of eating something that was trying to knock me out like a Mickey Finn.