: Please Check My Calculations!

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Hi, !

I am trying to learn /understand the calculation part of the diet,

and was hoping you could check to see if I'm right:

-Jimmy weighs 28.3 lbs, or 12.84 kgs

-He's 2 1/2 years old, and multiply disabled (doesn't require as many

cals)

12.84 x 75 = 963 total daily calories for the average child in the

age range on the diet

3:1 ratio

963 % 31 = 31g of carb & protein combined; 31 x 3 = 93g fat....is

this right? How do you know how much is carb and how much is protein?

Jimmy's cals were reduced to 750/day because, believe it or not, he

was gaining lots of weight on the diet (probably because he wasn't

having all those seizures any more to burn up calories!!!!).

He is starting to have his seizures creep back (approx. 10 per day;

he was having over 100/day before the diet!). During the hospital

stay for induction, they went away on day two and didn't come back

until recently (except for when he was ill or teething on two

occasions). He has only been at moderate ketones on the strips, but

I was told this is ok because the moderate level seems to work for

him.

How would YOU suggest tweeking the diet to gain back seizure

control?

Any advice you could give would be great. Jimmy is on the liquid

version of te diet now, but is at a point where we will be trying

pureed foods to give him some textures to work with.....pretty

exciting news in our house! This is why I am trying to understand

the calculations, which I'm sure will come into play a lot because of

making different recipes, etc.

Thank you!

Sue Ellen:)