Re: Another question for you,

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Is she exactly 5 yrs old ? How many mths - and what is her height?

35 lbs is approx 16 kilos, so at the lower cal range (if her activity

level is low/average) for that age group (65-68 cals per kg), that would put

her on about 1040 (16 x 65) calories, so yes, the 1200 does sound high, but

it also depends what they consider her 'ideal' weight to be, (caluclated by

dietician usually by looking at height/weight ratio and pre-diet growth

charts).

Are they using 1.1 gm per kg for protein?

If she is chubbyish, it doesn't sound like she needs to gain weight at

all, so I'm not sure why her cal level would be set this high? Even if she

did need to gain weight/growth, Freeman recommends setting cals to current

weight and then slowly increasing them up, otherwise there are too many cals

on board to be 'mimicing starvation' during the catch up phase, so less

likelihood of seizure control.

I had to do a mass delete of a lot of older posts, so I'm not sure if I've

already asked you the height questions etc before, sorry if so, my inbox had

got into a bit of a state

I have saved some that I am still getting around to answering, but a lot

have been deleted already, including those in my sent items.

PS - the 75% calorie levels for keto kids has already been accounted for

in the caluclations per kg that the table in Freeman's book sets out. So the

65-68 cals per kg for 4-6 yr olds already has that 25% deducted.

----- Original Message -----

> Dear

>

> Recently you gave some guidelines for weight and calories. I am

wondering if you might help me in this matter.

>

> My daughter, , is five years old and 35 lbs. She is chubby, round

not lean. Her ratio is now 3.5 : 1 after going acid because ketones were

consisently far too high which I hadn't realized until crisis time. Anyway,

she also gets 1200 calories, which I am thinking is high. She is short,

small framed, and is not extremely active. She was delayed in all areas,

even physically, and although she is able to walk and run, she is a quiet

player... books, legos, making " cookies " at her sand table, those kind of

activities. I know metabolism, activity level, etc. works into play, but I

am thinking that I read she should be getting 75% of her normal calorie

intake, and I think this 1200 calorie diet is high.

>

> What are your thoughts??? Many thanks ahead of time. , mum to

dear who is just bouncing back after one bad week (worse than

pre-diet!)