I stayed away from them and followed the plan as it was written. I tried one of the Atkins bars, and it set off cravings for me, and I never had it again. With the low carb bread, I have had some of the low carb wheat tortillas in the beginning, but once I learned about the carb ladder, I stopped having those. I didn't ever have a problem with them (I lost 17lbs the first 2 weeks), but I wanted to follow it properly, so I stopped.

I am beginning to add more carbs in and climb the carb ladder now (well, I will be in a week...going through some family issues which have me away from home at the moment, and I can't worry about it right now) and will slowly move through the rest of the stages of Atkins. I expect to lose for a while still, and would love to see 165 or 160. I'm confident that will be no problem at all.

Best of luck to you. My best advice is to follow the plan to the letter.