[Sabatier]

Congratulations! I've had very similar results. It's possible to maintain the Atkins diet and eat vegetables like onions, peppers, mushrooms. At our house we make fajitas with steak or chicken and add red and green peppers, onions, and chilis, for example. There's lots of Atkins' friendly meals that taste good, you just have to be creative. In the Phoenix area they have a store called Low Carb Mall - it's great. They have Atkins bread, which is quite good. I wish the carb industry would back off and stop propagating the myth that the Atkins diet doesn't work or will kill you. I'm healthier now than I've ever been in my life - my doctor agrees.

[Mamzelle]

Atkins bread is expensive and inconvenient to obtain--try "Nature's Own" locarb bread available for less than two bucks at WalMart grocery--and most other big grocery stores, too.

[monkeyshine]

Mushrooms are not a vegetable.