[redhead]

"However, I really really miss bread, rice, chocolate... damn!"

HAVE it. Just have smaller portions, less often. No big deal. And, here's a tip I learned the hard way: NEVER eat carbohydrate snacks alone. Always have them with a meal or "cushion" them with a protein/fat addition. This slows down the insulin spike and creates less metabolic havoc.

[Hamza01]

Mmmm... chocolate. My girlfriend just came back from a trip to Switzerland (lots of Tobler came my way). Small portions are tough, though.

Now if only there were Atkins beer...

[jennyp]

And, here's a tip I learned the hard way: NEVER eat carbohydrate snacks alone. Always have them with a meal or "cushion" them with a protein/fat addition. This slows down the insulin spike and creates less metabolic havoc.

I just discovered Atkins candybars! Walmart was selling them (and another brand, CarboLite) for $.96 ea. for a little over 1 oz. bars. Both brands are goooood! They're sweetened with Splenda of course, and also something called Maltitol, whose carb numbers are recorded as "Sugar alcohol" on the nutrition label and apparently don't count towards the "Net Effective Carb" count. So each candybar has 2g net carbs.