The atkin diets in my opinion is too extreme and you can get better results with other ketogenic diet such as a CKD or TKD, bodyopus etc. research for other types because atkins isnt the only one out there. Heres a link
www.c-k-d.com and i also have a book in pdf format explaining everything about ketogenic diets by lyle mcdonald (sp?). If anyone can host it ill be glad to send it to their e-mail addy so then can post a link and everyone can download it.