Re: Re: Atkins

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Pam,

From your description of cutting carbs and protein and adding oil and

you are keeping him in ketosis, then I would say that you are doing the

ketogenic diet, not the Atkins diet.

Bill

From the Mcs wrote:

>>>>>>>>I would like to know how many people are using Atkins and what

>>>>>>>

> results you are having. Also, if you tried it and stopped, I'd like

> to hear about that too.>>>>>>>

>

> We are doing Atkins. My son is , age 8yrs *today*. He has absence

> szs that began last August. He had hundreds per day, then started

> depakote which lowered the number of szs to about 4 per hour. Depakote

> lowered the number of szs, but gave him such bad side effects that szs

> were preferable. He then went to zarontin which gave him other types of

> szs and made him bowel incontinent. Doc said we probably wont find any

> AED that will control the szs, so we tried Atkins at his suggestion

> (instead of okaying my request of doing the keto diet).

>

> We tried to do just strict Atkins (eating anything we want as long as we

> stick to 10 gms of carbs/day), but found that eating too much protein

> kept out of ketosis. So now we add a lot of fats to his meats

> which helps him eat less meat and stay full longer. I try to use

> healthy fats such as coconut and olive oils. We don't do hardly any low

> carb or Atkins products. I count all carbs, but recently have been

> subtracting fiber carbs which may or may not be a good thing.

>

> was sz free the very first day of ketosis. He was sz free or very

> close to it until recently. I am not sure what is going on, but it seems

> does best in the middle range of ketosis, so i am going to try to

> keep him there and see what happens. It also might be due to not

> counting the fiber carbs.