Hope you don't mind answering a few questions. My Mother has the book and was asking me to clarify some things for her but I don't have good grasp of Atkins (I've been on Sugar Busters for 2 1/2 years) and thought I'd come ask some experts

Can you have the following on induction:

Canned tomato sauce?

Cottage cheese?

1/3 less fat mayo as well as 1/3 less fat cream cheese?

low fat cheese made with part skim milk (thought if mozzarella is okay, why would this not if it's real cheese)

Is Stevia (sweetener) okay to use?

Salad-she had a bag of mixed baby greens and it has a serving size of 3 ounces being the same as 2 cups-it's not two cups unless you pack it in there. The nutritional info puts it at 4 grams of carbs for this amount. On the info I found it says 2 cups lightly packed. That would be only 1 ounce, or about that. Would it make that much difference if one went over?

Do you HAVE to consume 20 carbs or anything below it is okay?

After induction and when you start uping your carbs can you begin adding in fruits as long as you don't go over your grams?

And last, do you deduct your fiber grams from carb grams? For instance, I eat raspberries and a 6 ounce serving may have say 20 grams of carbs but 12 grams of fiber, would you only count 8 carb grams if this were the case? I think she'll miss fruit most of all.

Thanks so much for your help. I'm hoping to get a copy of the book from the library and searching the web hasn't helped all that much as I get some conflicting info.

Debbie