[XOMichelle]

Cream-
Please don't get back on the Atkins diet!!! It's bad for you... here's why:

Your brain ONLY uses glucose (sugar) as fuel. Thus, you need to eat food with glucose in order to fuel your brain (carbs, complex carbs, fruits with simple sugar, milk). If you eat no glucose, your body will make ketone bodies (glucose-like substance) to feed your brain from other protien sources in your liver. Ketone bodies are toxic, and elevated levels in your bloodsteam can be life threatening (ketacidosis is common when diabetics go into insulin shocks).

Now, most peoiple on the Atkins diet don't reach life threatening ketosis because of "hidden carbohydrates" in their food (and the acid-base buffer in our blood). However, carbohydrates are essential to your cells and metabolism and not eating them throws your body into an abnormal metabolic state.

So eat carbs! You cells need them.
The rest of Jame's advice is sound. :-)
-M
-M