atkins - question about health problems

Hello group, we started atkins earlier this summer, my spouse had no
problems with it, but started his whole wheat toast with his soft boiled
eggs in the morning after about four weeks, whereas i went back to the
yoghurt and muesli breakfast 9no refined anything, no sugars). Otherwise my
diet with Atkins introduced a lot of protein (from meats and eggs) and more
fat from dairy, and took away my may fresh fruit intakes a day.

This is what I experienced:
1) leg cramps that started with the cramps I knew from childbearing years,
but became rapidly worse, so that the least amount of tension on the muscles
would produce cramps. I learned to lay perfectly still in bed and not move
my legs, and even then, just the move of a toe could induce cramps. The
cramps then became different, less like muscle spams, and more like a wired
sensation located in the bones; eventually my legs felt almost constantly
weird, tensed, wired, heavy -when sitting down... that's when I was aware of
it- . I wondered what was going on to my veins, my bones as well as the
muscles.
2) enormous fatique that would not go away
3) hairloss, like after I had had a few months after having my babies.
4) arthritis acting up big time

I read through lots of support group listings to see if this was normal and
what to do for it, and learned first of all how important it was to take
food supplements. Then to take extra potassium, extra magnesium, rogaine,
biotin, L-Cysteine , zinc,
and more......... So all this started me seriously wondering how this
Atkins diet could be healthy.

I had changed my diet from a healthy one (I did not eat empty calories, did
not drink carbonated drinks, but ate fruits, brown rice, whole wheat, very
little meat, hardly eggs, used olive oil for years, ate fresh natural
yoghurts, etc etc) to one that can NOT be good for me: lots and lots of
proteins (all animal), dairy fats and hardly any fruits or good grains.
Granted I was 36 pounds over weight and have lost 15 of those. I exercise
not a lot and I ate obviously more than I burned.
So that is where I have come back to:
Atkins -or any other restrictive diet- is NOT healthy for me (nor for anyone
else if you have all these problems and have to supplement so unnaturally
much) and the key for me is less, but healthy intake, and a bit more
exercice.

So in the end I really have answered the question i was going to ask: How
can this be healthy and what to do or not to do....

Thanks group for providing me with a forum where to glean so much valid
information and in the end find my answer to my "prayer"

Enjoy your weekend, I started mine this morning with a grapefruit and 1/2
hour later a nice slice of homemade wholewheat toast, dry, delicious!

Jopie