Hi Fairy,

Welcome to the forum!

Induction is when you rid your body of carbs and switch it to fat burning mode. During this time, you eat 20 grams of carbohydrates as part of your meals per day. After induction, you raise your carbohydrates by 5 grams a week until you find out how many carbs you can consume and still lose weight. There are lists of allowable foods in the Atkins book. Allowable foods are low in carbs.

We're all different! There are no standards for weight loss or anything else with low-carbing. Everyone loses at a different rate. Everyone stalls and plateaus for different reasons. Some lose quickly, some lose slowly.

It doesn't get boring. It's only as boring as you want to make it. Check out the Tips, Recipe and Karen section in the red/orange bar at the top of the page. Lots of good stuff there! Keep posting!

Karen