20-25 grams a day might be "Atkins" lowest plan, but it wasn't Dr. Atkins lowest plan. For some hard losers, he prescribed fat fasting interspersed with induction. Or just staying in induction, if that gave results but climbing the carb ladder for ongoing weight loss didn't work Dr. Atkins' original three cups of low carb veggies, combined with the spartan cream for coffee and what carbs people would have coming in from cheese and egg would have a lot of people closer to 10 grams than 20 per day. I personally hit somewhere around 12 grams total, 8 grams net on a daily basis, although it involve way more heavy cream than the original program, and I get better results this way.