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    My daughter finally started atkins!

    I have been trying to get her to start this woe for a month and she finally did 2 days ago. She tested with the stix todayand she is in ketosis. I'm very excited for her she is only 15 and needs to lose about 50 lbs. She just registered on the board today so she will probably post tomorrow. She thinks I'm weird for posting on this board but soon she will be weird too. I am so proud of her. Her screen name is fattymcfatfatz. Please "show her some luv" and reply to her posts. She needs the extra support.


    Start date: 7/29/07:walking
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    Starting weight: 278
    Mini Goal: 250 MET 9/30/07
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    Mini Goal: 225
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    Target: 180 by 7/15/08:dancing1

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    Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

    We'll show the love!!

    yep, she'll be weird too before long!!
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    • #3
      Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

      Hey, we're not weirdos (all the time...lol)....losers it more like it

      Looking forward to sharing the encouragement with your daughter.

      April 2007: 212
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      • #4
        Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

        Originally posted by meaty
        I have been trying to get her to start this woe for a month and she finally did 2 days ago. She tested with the stix todayand she is in ketosis. I'm very excited for her she is only 15 and needs to lose about 50 lbs. She just registered on the board today so she will probably post tomorrow. She thinks I'm weird for posting on this board but soon she will be weird too. I am so proud of her. Her screen name is fattymcfatfatz. Please "show her some luv" and reply to her posts. She needs the extra support.
        Congrats to your daugther for wanting to lose weight, but Atkins is an adult-type diet. Since she is 15, her nutritional needs are different than us, oldies. Teens are still growing and developing.

        The Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine did treat overweight children and teens with a low carb diet. That diet is outlined in a book called "Feed Your Kids Well" by Dr. Fred Pescatore, who was the associate medical director of the Atkins Center during the 1990s. It's a diet more suitable to a teenager than Atkins is because it meets their nutritional needs better.

        Also I suggest you get your daughter's doctor involved with this process. Again, because she is a teenager, her nutritional needs are very important to maintain while she is losing weight. Her doctor will be able to monitor things like her blood tests (cholesterol, etc.) and other health factors to ensure she is maintaining her health as she loses the weight.

        ~Megs~
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        • #5
          Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

          Awesome news! This is the healthiest diet for anyone who has weight issues!


          Originally posted by not2late
          Her doctor will be able to monitor things like her blood tests (cholesterol, etc.)
          Cholesterol at 15?? irrelevant I say. But I agree the doctor can monitor other factors.
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          • #6
            Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

            [QUOTE=apple]Hey, we're not weirdos (all the time...lol)....losers it more like it

            Hey, Speak for yourself, Apple LOL
            My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
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              Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

              Meaty, Don't know it you know it but there's a section on this board just for teens.
              My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
              ~Orson Welles




              Everytime I am tempted to use food to satisfy my frustrated desires, build up my injured ego, or dull my senses, I will remember,
              That even though I overeat in private, my excess poundage is there for all the world to see.
              ------------------------------------------------------------

              "Eating like most people won't, so I can look like most people don't."

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              • #8
                Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

                You go Girl...yes take the young lady along for the ride..definitely get the doctor involved...definitely start an exercise program cause you've already got your "buddy".......any help we can give will be given...look at the big (pun) picture: at the end of the road she will be eating nutritionally...i remeber when i was on a sucessful diet long ago and my friends told me "you've got to feed your daughter differently" now 75 pounds later (after feeding her and myself "differently) I wish i had turned a deaf ear....will show her love too......hang in there.....ain't nuthin but a party and all are welcome Sheryl

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                • #9
                  Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

                  I was thinking the same thing as Not2late. When I was a teen a doctor discouraged me from doing Atkins for that same exact reason. Just something to think about.

                  Anyway, I'm glad she's decided to lose weight before she gets older. My gosh, the older you get the harder it is to shed the lbs.




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                  • #10
                    Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

                    I thought about her nutritional needs being different too. I have her taking a children's multivitamin and a calcium supplement. Her doctor hasnt approved atkins but he has told us that she needs to lose weight. I do wish that I had started younger as well. would have saved me a lot of hard work now! thank you all for the support.


                    Start date: 7/29/07:walking
                    F/5"8
                    Starting weight: 278
                    Mini Goal: 250 MET 9/30/07
                    Mini Goal: 230
                    Mini Goal: 225
                    Mini Goal: 210
                    Mini Goal: 195
                    Target: 180 by 7/15/08:dancing1

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                    • #11
                      Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

                      Originally posted by LC_Dave
                      Awesome news! This is the healthiest diet for anyone who has weight issues!




                      Cholesterol at 15?? irrelevant I say. But I agree the doctor can monitor other factors.
                      The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends initial cholesterol screening to be done at age 2 if they have a parent or grandparent with a history of high cholesterol, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, etc. and the screens are to continue throughout childhood and adolescence. Since about 1 in 3 people in the USA have high cholesterol, it's almost a given that children and teens have at least one parent or grandparent with this problem. And due to the increase in childhood and adolescent obesity, traditionally "adult" health issues like high blood pressure, high cholesterol, type 2 diabetes are becoming "childhood" health issues too.

                      (http://aappolicy.aappublications.org...rics;101/1/141)

                      Meaty, please try to find a copy of Dr. Pescatore's book. You wouldn't want your daughter to lose weight, but compromise her general health while doing it. Again, teens have different nutritional needs than adults and Atkins is an "adult" diet.

                      ~Megs~
                      242/141/160 (130)
                      dress size 26/10/8
                      5'4", Female, May 2, 2003
                      My blog:
                      http://mformiscellaneous.blogspot.com/

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                      • #12
                        Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

                        I also think its very good to start children early on a low carb diet.
                        As I child I was regularly fed loads and loads of carbs regularly around the clock. Pasta, bread, snack cakes, pizza, were almost a daily affair in my family. Subsequently my whole family shows obesity tendencies. Only through aktins has my cravings for carbs stopped. Good luck.




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                        • #13
                          Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

                          Originally posted by jimmyolsenblues
                          I also think its very good to start children early on a low carb diet.
                          .
                          I agree, provided that low carb diet provides complete nutrition for children and teens.
                          ~Megs~
                          242/141/160 (130)
                          dress size 26/10/8
                          5'4", Female, May 2, 2003
                          My blog:
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                          • #14
                            Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

                            Good Luck to your daughter and keep us posted!!
                            Kassoria 6/06 Me @ 155


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                            • #15
                              Re: My daughter finally started atkins!

                              She'll do great, so happy for both of you!!

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