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Originally Posted by grumpyolddude
While I really appreciate everyone's input here, ratbastid has the info I'm really after: real world experience with the plan. You've hit upon my concern that the program is being misapplied and there are serious health issues being risked. QW is taking in some carbs, but no where near the 20g you mention. I'll be working on a strategy to get her to "cheat" a little more without making her feel she's failing the program.
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Glad to help. She needs to read the book. REALLY.
It's not cheating to do the thing as designed. Doing it as designed is relatively safe (except for people with specific health histories, which are listed thoroughly...
in the book).
Tell her I said she's doing it wrong. Atkins isn't just "no carbs". Not by a long shot. She's making something up, and it could be seriously dangerous. Hell, Atkins asks in the first few pages that you read the whole book and understand the whole program before starting on it. To just throw carbs out the window because you heard that was Atkins... That's just nuts.
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Originally Posted by grumpyolddude
And BG... today I convinced QW to get some urine test strips. Whether they give worthwhile information or not, I figure that using them on a regular basis will keep her cognizant of the potential for problems and cause her to monitor things closely.
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Ketostrips are a positive-or-negative test for urinary ketones, which indicate that the metabolic state of ketosis has been induced. The idea with Atkins, though, is to induce ketosis WITHOUT the body entering starvation mode. Put any anorexic's urine on a ketostrip and it'll light right up--ketones are what the body generates when it's burning something other than nutritional calories for energy. The Atkins diet
when done as designed walks a fine line between triggering alternate energy burning, and physical survival mode. But it is a FINE line, and making something up won't be successful and could be dangerous.