Officially, induction is two weeks.

Supposing that there is some micronutrient insufficiency in two weeks,
in those two weeks, you aren't going to trigger a fatal disease or disorder.

The books say that after two weeks of induction, you proceed to add more
foods including more of the nutrient rich types of vegetables.

During induction, the books emphasize that the vegetables you do eat
should be of the nutrient rich lower carb types.

Mountains..... from molehills.  It is possible to have a narrow focus
and attempt to create mountains from molehills.

Absorption is greatly improved by taking supplements with food.  If you
take more than your body needs, you likely won't absorb it all... I
consider this a good thing though.  Sort of... vitamin and mineral
insurance.

I am not in induction.  I am primarily doing low-carb for blood sugar
control rather than weight loss.  Weight loss is just a side benefit.

IMO, the percentages are not the important thing.

The important thing is taking in the amount of carb that allows blood
glucose to remain stable.  This amount varies from person-to-person.
Because I use a blood glucose meter, I know my amount.  Once you know
how much carb you should be taking, it's best to "spend" most of your
carbs via veggies and lower-carb fruits to maximize nutrition.  For me
this is around 50 g carb, or around 200 kilocalories/day.

Next, you try to getting enough protein to support your lean body mass.
But you don't over-do this, as the body converts excess protein to
glucose, which can sabotage the whole point of doing low-carb.  For me,
this is around 80 g protein, or around 400 kilocalories/day.

Then the remainder of calories should be from fat.  Given that I'm only
getting 600 kilocalories from carb and protein, on a 1400 kilocalorie
day, that means I need 800 kilocalories from fat, which is about 89 g
fat.

NOTE: I take in around 1400 kilocalories per day on Mon-Fri, as I find
it easiest to mostly eat the same thing every day.  I cook on weekends
when my husband is home (he drives OTR so is gone during the week). I
stay low-carb on weekends, but eat whatever I want otherwise - which
likely runs a few hundred more kilocalories than during the week.

On Mon-Fri, my diet runs around 14% carb, 24% protein and 58% fat.

The *bulk* of my food is fruit and veggies, but given that I mostly
stick to lower-carb fruits and veggies, it turns out to be a low
percentage of total caloric intake.

That 58% fat looks scary to the low-fat crowd, but it's not... if you
have to maintain blood glucose via low-carb and
adequate-but-not-excessive-protein, your diet *has* to be high-fat.  In
my case, it includes lots of *good* fats - flaxmeal, lecithin, alpha
lipoic acid, evening primrose oil, olive oil.  It would be more ideal
if I all my fat were good fats, but I happen to love dairy, so I do a
lot of cream, yogurt, cottage cheese, ricotta, cream cheese, butter,
etc.

This is what my diet looks like on a typical weekday...

THROUGHOUT THE DAY:

1 quart of homemade "sports drink" - 1/2 packet of Crystal Light with
1/2 tsp calcium ascorbate powder (2 g vitamin C) & 1/8 tsp Lite salt
(120 mg potassium)

2 quarts filtered well-water

BREAKFAST:

2 large cups of coffee: 16 oz coffee with 1 oz heavy cream and 2
packets Equal

hot cereal: nuke together 2/3 cup water, 3 TB flaxmeal, 3 TB milk-based
protein powder, 1 TB lecithin, dash of cinnamon, then stir in 1 oz
heavy cream

dairy and fruit: 3/4 cup full-fat plain yogurt, 1/2 cup whole fresh
strawberries and 2 TB DaVinici sugar-free syrup mixed together (this
varies, I sometimes do cottage cheese, cream cheese or ricotta and also
do other berries or melon)

Supplements:

For diabetes, I take 4 pills: 300 mg Alpha Lipoic Acid, 50 mg Evening
Primrose Oil, 98 mg chromium picolinate, 300 mg magneisum complex

For nutrition, I take 3 pills: 2 Bronson Therapeutic Formula pills
(multivitamin & mineral), 1 Bronson Super B-100 pill

For yeast, I take: 2 Thorne Formula SF722 pills (50 mg 10-unodenic acid
each)

LUNCH:

huge salad: 1 cup shredded butterhead, bibb or Boston lettuce, 1 cup
shredded raddichio, 1/2 medium tomato (diced), 1/4 medium cucumber
(peeled and sliced), 1/4 medium onion (diced), 1 oz shredded cheddar
cheese, 1 roasted garlic clove (smashed), 1 hard boiled egg (minced)
and 2 TB full-fat ranch dressing (I often eat this in two sittings as
it's too much food to get down at once)

Supplements:
yeast pills again

DINNER:

stirfry: 4 oz 80% lean hamburger, 8 oz shredded cabbage, 1/2 inch fresh
ginger (peeled and grated), 2 cloves pressed garlic all fried together
in 1/2 TB olive oil, then topped with 1/2 cup soy sauce (dinner varies,
but generally consists of 4 oz meat, fish or poultry, 8 oz veggies, 2
TB herbs/spices, 1/2 TB oil or butter)

Supplements:
Alpha Lipoic Acid and Evening Primrose Oil pills again
yeast pills again
a milk thistle pill (175 mg standardized to 80%)

Even without supplements, this is more nutritious than *most* non
low-carb diets, since it includes loads of fresh and cooked veggies,
adequate protein, and good fats.

This diet could be improved - more good fats instead of so much dairy,
fewer higher-carb veggies like onions and garlic to allow increased
amounts of lower-carb veggies, cutting out coffee, stopping the
artificial sweeteners.

But for me, the "bad" stuff make the diet palatable for the long-term,
which means I can keep my blood glucose stable and hopefully prevent
the diabetes from progressing.

But while some of my choices are not ideal, the high-fat level is
*necessary* due to the necessity to restrict carbohydrate and get
enough, but not too much, protein.