Guest guest Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 , I'm curious how you are doing Atkins. I've read the book but I can't figure out how to convert completely from keto to Atkins. Shan is basically Atkins at .8:1 (high protein/low carbs) but I don't know how to quit weighing and maintain the small ketosis. Are you measuring carbs? Measuring fats? I would appreciate any advise you have. Rhonda We are using the Atkins diet and have the same control we did on the keto diet. We are very limiting with the carbs and have found that all of the " low carb " and Atkins products are a seizure trigger for . He gets meats, veggies, cream, cheese and 1 carb product per day (ie french toast made with cream, egg, and wheat toast 11g carb fried in butter with butter for syrup.) He does fine on this as long as we rotate foods. If he gets burned out we run into trouble with sneaking. We use jellos and use sug free pudding for choc ice cream made with cream. and we make our own creamsicles etc. Again, the biggest issues for us with sz break throughs have been when we start adding the low carb stuff. Mainly because when he gets them, he craves them and then he obsesses about them and won't eat the other stuff. We tried to come completely off the diet in January of this year after 2 years of perfect EEGs and the seizures came back within a month. It was very hard. I just try to remind myself that we are lucky to have sz control at all b/c 4 years ago, I never thought any thing could help my son. Lots of luck to you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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