Guest guest Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 My daughter is 12 and she has Aspergers Syndrome (higher fuctioning form of Autism). We did the diet for about 5 weeks before the holidays. We were pretty strict on the diet and taking most of the supplements. She did have die off symptoms, and when they got bad we just backed off on the amount of coconut oil. She was up to 4 tsp throughtout the day. She has a benign cyst on the side of her neck and it got smaller during the 5 weeks.Then came the holidays and she was back on her old diet for about 2 weeks. I didn't realize that a lot of her Autism symptons had deminished until she was off of Bee's Diet!!!! They all came back in full!! I was amazed!!!!! Now we are back on Bee's Diet.It will be very interesting to see what kind of results we get. I would highly recommend you try it with your child!!!!! Ann From: irene.m@... <irene.m@...> Subject: [ ] Autistic Teen Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 5:04 PM I am wondering if anyone is using Bee's diet with an autistic teenager and what your experience with it has been. Thanks, Irene Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 9, 2009 Report Share Posted January 9, 2009 Thanks for the info. It isn't my child. It is a friend of mine. She has a severely autistic teenager who isn't very compliant and is naturally a carbohydrate addict. I was wondering both if parents see improvements in autistic teenagers and also how to deal with autistic kids who are low functioning and difficult to manage. She is interested in the diet but is overwhelmed by the prospect of trying to make so many changes to her daughter' diet as you can imagine. But that aside, it is wonderful that you saw such improvement in your daughter in so short a time. That is very encouraging. Irene At 07:50 PM 1/9/2009, you wrote: >My daughter is 12 and she has Aspergers Syndrome (higher fuctioning form >of Autism). We did the diet for about 5 weeks before the holidays. We were >pretty strict on the diet and taking most of the supplements. She did have >die off symptoms, and when they got bad we just backed off on the amount >of coconut oil. She was up to 4 tsp throughtout the day. She has a benign >cyst on the side of her neck and it got smaller during the 5 weeks.Then >came the holidays and she was back on her old diet for about 2 weeks. I >didn't realize that a lot of her Autism symptons had deminished until she >was off of Bee's Diet!!!! They all came back in full!! I was >amazed!!!!! Now we are back on Bee's Diet.It will be very interesting to >see what kind of results we get. I would highly recommend you try it with >your child!!!!! Ann > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Hi Irene, My sister's son is 17 and autistic. He is high functioning. He's been on the diet since the end of the August and has been doing really well. His stimming behaviour practically stopped as well as his " sticky words " as my sister calls them, where he barks out a single word or phrase at different intervals. For exmaple, he'll say " four " or " spaghetti " (or sometimes very inappropriate words) every few minutes. This has decreased significantly on the diet. Sadly, my sister's husband doesn't support her on this diet and will bring pop and bread and other sugary foods into the house when he comes home. He works out of town and was home for the whole month of December and by Christmas my nephew was a complete mess - back to the stimming and the sticky words. Good thing he's back to work now and my sister can get her son back on Bee's diet. She even had him eating eggs the other day - a first for him! I know it's hard to change an austistic's mind and get them to do or eat the way we want them to. My nephew was also a carb addict and only ate white foods - chicken, potatoes, pasta and bread. My sister has a special way with her son in that she is able to convince him of things by explaining them in detail. She told him that Bee's diet was the best thing for him and showed him Bee's site and explained everything really thoroughly. After that, she brought him shopping and he was pointing out all of the " gross " foods in the store - the bread, the packaged foods (all the things on Bee's no-no list!!!) He even complained that there wasn't enough fat on the cuts of meat! LOL! My sister is so impressed that he now likes steak and green beans and a lot of other foods he would never eat before. I think for your friend, she will have to make changes gradually. When we changed our son over to this diet, we gradually decreased fruits and pasta and that seemed easier for him. My sister did the same thing. Her boys (she has two) continued to eat cereal and milk for the longest time while following everything else on the diet and still made improvements. If you have anymore questions about what she does/did to get her teens to change to Bee's program, let me know. I'm happy to help! > > I am wondering if anyone is using Bee's diet with an autistic teenager and > what your experience with it has been. > Thanks, > Irene > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 > > Hi Irene, > > My sister's son is 17 and autistic. He is high functioning. He's > been on the diet since the end of the August and has been doing > really well. > > His stimming behaviour practically stopped as well as his " sticky > words " as my sister calls them, where he barks out a single word or > phrase at different intervals. For exmaple, he'll say " four " > or " spaghetti " (or sometimes very inappropriate words) every few > minutes. This has decreased significantly on the diet. > > Sadly, my sister's husband doesn't support her on this diet and will > bring pop and bread and other sugary foods into the house when he > comes home. He works out of town and was home for the whole month of > December and by Christmas my nephew was a complete mess - back to the > stimming and the sticky words. Good thing he's back to work now and > my sister can get her son back on Bee's diet. She even had him > eating eggs the other day - a first for him! <snip> +++, may I please post your message in our Success Stories? Luv & Hugs, Bee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Sure, Bee! I noticed that I have spelling mistakes (a big pet peeve of mine!)so here is the corrected version: Hi Irene, My sister's son is 17 and autistic. He is high functioning. He's been on the diet since the end of the August and has been doing really well. His stimming behaviour practically stopped as well as his " sticky words " as my sister calls them, where he barks out a single word or phrase at different intervals. For exmaple, he'll say " four " or " spaghetti " (or sometimes very inappropriate words) every few minutes. This has decreased significantly on the diet. Sadly, my sister's husband doesn't support her on this diet and will bring pop and bread and other sugary foods into the house when he comes home. He works out of town and was home for the whole month of December and by Christmas my nephew was a complete mess - back to the stimming and the sticky words. Good thing he's back to work now and my sister can get her son back on Bee's diet. She even had him eating eggs the other day - a first for him! I know it's hard to change an autistic teen's mind and get them to do something or eat the way we want them to. My nephew was also a carb addict and only ate white foods - chicken, potatoes, pasta and bread. My sister has a special way with her son in that she is able to convince him of things by explaining them in great detail. She told him that Bee's diet was the best thing for him and showed him Bee's site and explained everything really thoroughly. After that, she brought him shopping and he was pointing out all of the " gross " foods in the store - the bread, the packaged foods (all the things on Bee's no-no list!!!) He even complained that there wasn't enough fat on the cuts of meat! LOL! My sister is so impressed that he now likes steak and green beans and a lot of other foods he would never eat before. I think for your friend, she will have to make changes gradually. When we changed our son over to this diet, we gradually decreased fruits and pasta and that seemed easier for him. My sister did the same thing. Her boys (she has two) continued to eat cereal and milk for the longest time while following everything else on the diet and still made improvements. If you have anymore questions about what she does/did to get her teens to change to Bee's program, let me know. I'm happy to help! > > > +++, may I please post your message in our Success Stories? > > Luv & Hugs, Bee > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Oops! I just realized my husband was logged in, not me. Just confirming that yes, this message was from me. Also, my nephew's anxiety has decreased with your diet. You can add that in anywhere if you want to. Take care, > > > > > > +++, may I please post your message in our Success Stories? > > > > Luv & Hugs, Bee > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Thank you so much ! Luv & Hugs, Bee > > Sure, Bee! I noticed that I have spelling mistakes (a big pet peeve > of mine!)so here is the corrected version: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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