Re: :How to start on Atkins Diet?

[Guest guest]

We just started it one day after his EEG went bad again....... It is very

simple. Basically, we just follow the Atkins diet. I am sending you what I

sent to Rhonda a week ago wabout what we do.

We give unlimited meats, cheeses, eggs (which he hardly eats)unlimited

veggies (no corn, beans potatoes etc the high carb veggies like the group A

veggies), jello. We also give him unlimited butter and cream and nuts and

essentially push the fats to the extent that he will allow. He eats melted

butter

with everything. He is so used to it that he won't eat without it. We go to

restaurants and order him a grilled meat (steak or chicken usually) and bring

along his veggies and butter for them to melt.

His ketones are moderate to large every night and he does great with it.

It keeps his appetite suppressed. I always know that if he is getting hungry

he must not have good ketosis. The key for us to be successful with this is

to rotate foods. He goes on hot dog binges for 2 weeks but then you can tell

he's losing his interest with them so we switch. He eats alot of salmon,

tilapia, steak, pork chops and chicken on the grill with grilled veggies and

butter. He always has opocorn with butter before he goes to bed and we give

him

a 1 cup serving with 2T butter.

I really think the key to our success with it is that it really is following

the keto protocol with the food choices. We are really doing a keto like

diet without weighing the food. We get into trouble when we add the other low

carb food because he stops eating the other stuff and his ketones go down.

It is a vicious cycle for us that we have finally accpeted that he will

probably be on this diet for a long time. The alternative is seizures and we

don't

want to go down that road. We are blessed that we have control with the

diet.

We don't weigh it but he gets it with every meal. Butter is his " gravy " as

he calls it and he gets upset if we don't have it. His snacks have cream in

them so we're covered in that regard to. We make cream popsicles and ice

cream with jello and sug free pudding.

Good luck to you and if you need help let us know

[Guest guest]

The Atkins diet has protocols through Hopkins research--limiting Carbs to 10

gms and limiting protein/calories

On the Keto archives you will find info on the Atkins diet-(BBC--?published

a paper)

Sandi