[kevkrom]

Even if eating red meat and minimal veggies is "bad" for you

I dunno about this "minimal veggies" stuff. I eat more veggies, and eat them more consistently, on Atkins than on any other diet I've ever been on. You just have to be careful about the quantity of the starchier veggies (most root veggies like carrots and onions) and stick with more of the green leafy types if you want to have significant volume.

[babyface00]

Sometimes its easier to just skip the veggies if (like me) you can't always remember which ones are OK and which ones aren't. Especially as I can only tend to stay on it for a couple weeks at a time - I can't afford to make a mistake during those couple of weeks.

That said, you can eat far more veggies and far less meat on Atkins then most of its critics realize. They just don't read the book all the way through and think the first week is the same as the entire diet.