Thanks for the reply,

I use this site typically when I am juice fasting. The support was great. I was simply not prepared for the verbal assaults presented in this forum. I know that vegetarians and vegans are predominant here and I respect that. It hasn't worked for me, but I was simply unprepared for all the negativity presented in here. Especially since it was being presented as a support forum. In any way of eating, there are bound to be some horror stories, and I would expect that, however, it really is being portayed wrong. The nucleus of the Atkins diet originally was focused on whole foods and unprocessed fats. It has changed since his death due to the marketing conglomerate trying to sell bars and other products which Dr. Atkins never advocated in the eating plan. In fact a number of products has ingredients like peanuts (not allowed in the earlier phase) as being suitable. This is simply not the case. I do not eat mountains of splenda, nor do I eat pork rinds. I eat meat yes, but with a boat load of vegetables, some cheeses, olive oil,olives and some varieties of nuts. Everyone thinks Atkins means bacon, cheese and pork rinds, clearly they never read the book. The response here was just really disappointing. I am not interested in defending myself or citing the virtues of the diet here, I was just upset at the number trying to get some positive feedback and getting a verbal beating about everything. However, I do appeciate your positive response, since that is what forums are really about :)

Leanna