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Sorry if I came off sounding hostile. I'd had to correct someone else about Atkins in another forum earlier that day. It was about diet sodas. (Atkins doesn't allow aspartame, and there's the caffeine).
As it turns out, you can get plenty of fiber (and other good nutrients) from green leafy vegetables, nuts and seeds. Some nuts and seeds are good, some aren't. Non pareil almonds (at least the ones I get at Trader Joes) have only one net carb. Same with Planters brand sunflower seeds. If you shop around, you'll see a lot of variety in net carbs within the same food item.
I also recommend you check out the book for some more tips--Atkin's New Diet Revolution. You can get it in paperback just about anywhere. It's a thick book, but most of it is actually recipes. He talks a lot about the chemcial reactions in the body with both glucose-based and lipid-based metabolism and makes the two processes easy to understand and separate.
There are several progressive stages in the diet, with the first two weeks (or longer) being the most restrctive, excluding even nuts and seeds. After that, however, you can have some fruit. If you like having lots of fruit, the South Beach Diet may be more your speed. I don't have any experience with it, but I know they allow carbs in the form of whole grains and fruit.
I know of one Atkins dieter who uses bran to cancel out carbs. You can have as much carbs as you want, as long as you eat enough fiber to keep things down to a manageable number (usually never more than 100g a day, one third of the USDA daily allowance).
Hope that helps.
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