Re: stomach problems and seizures-HELP Bill

[Guest guest]

Bill,

We use alot of meats ie all beef hot dogs, chicken, steak, salmon and other

fishes , hamburger (all beef black angus). My husband is a fanatic about

using meat that is not processed maybe b'/c he is a food sales rep so we eat

pure meats prodcuts. As far as veggies, we do Zucchini, asparagus, broccoli,

caulflower, cucumber, tomato and sometimes carrots in small quantities. And we

use alot of cream and butter and cheese. That is really about it.

He is on the atkins diet but we so it like keto without a scale. Still push

alot of fat. I think the cream does add to his constipation. What do you

do?

Thanks again for your help. I'm off to Wild oats to learn about all of this

good new info I have from all of you folks.

Thanks

[Guest guest]

I am not familiar with doing the Atkins diet, only keto. So we limit

protein. Now we are not limiting it so much as we are weaning from the

diet. For constipation, we use high volume vegetables and fruit. We

don't use cheese. Maybe that is a contributor to the problem. I wonder

if Atkins is worse than keto for constipation because of higher protein

that is not necessary for growth and maintenance. I don't use hot dogs

or hamburger as I want to avoid animal fat and use healthier vegetable

or fish oils. I guess that I consider hot dogs to be processed meat. For

hamburger, I wonder about what values to use for calculating the diet.

I wouldn't think that cream would be too bad, just that you are using

higher amounts of protein.

I guess that I would increase fluids and try to add fibre. We add a bit

of psyllium husks. Maybe the medications are contributing to the

constipation. Some do.

We still have difficulties with constipation and " normal " is about once

every 2 to 4 days on the diet.

My daughter drinks poorly so it has always been a problem. Getting a

g-tube helped considerably.

I try to offer exercise as a promotion and sometimes give a gentle

abdominal massage. We use milk of magnesia.

Good luck,

Bill

lloydandleslie@... wrote:

> Bill,

>

> We use alot of meats ie all beef hot dogs, chicken, steak, salmon and other

> fishes , hamburger (all beef black angus). My husband is a fanatic about

> using meat that is not processed maybe b'/c he is a food sales rep so we eat

> pure meats prodcuts. As far as veggies, we do Zucchini, asparagus, broccoli,

> caulflower, cucumber, tomato and sometimes carrots in small quantities. And

we

> use alot of cream and butter and cheese. That is really about it.

>

> He is on the atkins diet but we so it like keto without a scale. Still push

> alot of fat. I think the cream does add to his constipation. What do you

> do?

>

> Thanks again for your help. I'm off to Wild oats to learn about all of this

> good new info I have from all of you folks.

>

> Thanks

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Have you thought of cutting back on some of the cream or butter and use

a little flax oil? Some find it good for constipation. But I strongly

recommend the magnesium.....you will know when he has too much when you

hit diahrea (again!)

lloydandleslie@... wrote:

> Bill,

>

> We use alot of meats ie all beef hot dogs, chicken, steak, salmon and

> other

> fishes , hamburger (all beef black angus). My husband is a fanatic

> about

> using meat that is not processed maybe b'/c he is a food sales rep so

> we eat

> pure meats prodcuts. As far as veggies, we do Zucchini, asparagus,

> broccoli,

> caulflower, cucumber, tomato and sometimes carrots in small

> quantities. And we

> use alot of cream and butter and cheese. That is really about it.

>

> He is on the atkins diet but we so it like keto without a scale.

> Still push

> alot of fat. I think the cream does add to his constipation. What

> do you

> do?

>

> Thanks again for your help. I'm off to Wild oats to learn about all

> of this

> good new info I have from all of you folks.

>

> Thanks

>

>

>

>