Newbie,
If you are going to do this diet the best thing to do is to buy a book. You
could start with Dr. Atkins New Diet Revolution easily found at used book
stores or online.

Until you get a book you might go to this url
http://www.atkins.com/articles/nutritional-approach and click on the 1234
this will tell you what the Atkins approach is all about. Ignore all the
hype about their sugar free products and just read all the plain good food
stuff. It will give you a list of things you can eat on induction.. the
first phase of the diet and only to last two weeks.
You will find plenty of good veggies to eat besides just meat and eggs.

It is pretty strongly suggested that you get a book. Sorry to break the
news that books are so useful.

Actually Taubes spoke about his book called "Good Calories, Bad
Calories", and there is also discussion about 'good carbs' and 'bad carbs'.

There are many free sources on the web. I suppose you could search for some.

One place is the Atkins website, owned by a company that bought Atkins
Nutritionals which was founded by Dr. Atkins, a famous writer on low
carb diets.

http://www.atkins.com/

You can also get a shorter discussion here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkins_Nutritional_Approach

Other low carb advocates include Dr. Dan Eades and his wife Dr. Mary
Eades and you can find their website and discussion easily by searching.

For many people, the most difficult part is leaning about food, other
than just something you stuff in your mouth.

For others, the difficult part is learning about what food does and
doesn't do as it is digested.

For others a difficult part is going against the often told story that
FAT IS BAD or other things that you have learned to believe, all the
while when you may have been getting fat believing those things  and
living that way.

You can find recipes for foods to cook at a number of places on the web
which are low carb, or you can buy quite a number of books on cooking
low carbohydrate foods.

If she is alive, talk to your great grandmother about what used to be
considered healthy eating (avoiding sugar and starches like potatoes and
rice and white flour).

When I was young, the fattening things to eat were sugars and starches.
Sometime in the 1980's starches and grains (usually refined) suddenly
became "healthy", with no scientific basis.

Sometime in the 1980's began the epidemic of obesity as well. In
reality, the onset of obesity is probably somewhat more complicated than
just that.

When I finally broke down and read about foods and what happens to foods
when they are digested, I finally managed to lose about 70 pounds by
following the low carbohydrate approach to eating.

I assure you, it ain't gonna kill you to learn this stuff.

Induction is the name of the first two weeks of the Atkins plan.  During
that time, you eat 20 grams or less per day of carbohydrate and select
your foods from a fairly limited list of healthy, low-carb foods.  Meat
and salad greens feature prominently during this time.  It's a bit of a
cold-turkey approach that attempts to break your dependence on carbs and
get your body into a boosted-metabolism fat-burning mode as quickly as
possible.  After the two-weeks of Induction, you move on to the next
stage where the carb limit and the number of allowed foods both
increase.

Induction is specific to Atkins, so if you follow one of the other
low-carb plans, it will have some other method for getting started.

That's the essence of it, but there are a lot of details that'll trip
you up if you don't know what you're doing.  For example, people are
often surprised to hear which foods are high in carbs and which aren't.
I've heard everything: "But potatoes are okay, right?"  "I made this
sugar-free pie for you with wheat flour since diabetics can have that."
"I cut back to one soda a day, so that should help, right?"

For a lot of people out there, simply cutting out the obvious high-carb
foods -- what are sometimes called the "white" foods: sugar, flour,
potatoes, rice -- would improve their health and encourage weight loss.
But for many of us, especially those of us who already did years of
damage with high-carb foods, such halfway measures aren't enough; we
need a well-defined plan.

Tons of them, including the thousands of past posts on this group.
However, creating your own low-carb plan from bits and pieces found on
the web is a little like building a car from parts.  If you're already
an expert, it might be a good idea; but if you're new at it, you're
going to get something that looks funny and doesn't run right.  

Used bookstores and thrift stores *always* have copies of "Dr. Atkins's
New Diet Revolution", and they sometimes have "Protein Power" or
"Protein Power Life Plan" (my favorite).  You can also get used copies
online for little more than the price of shipping.  It really is worth
having a defined plan in a single book that you can refer to regularly
when you're getting started.