Hello, I just found your forums today and am I glad! :O)


My dd started Atkins about 4 weeks ago with her step-dad and I. She has done really well. I would like to allow her more food choices though but not stop her weight loss. The problem we have is that she flies to her dads for 4-5 days every month. They (bio-dad and stepmom) find the Atkins diet hard to follow and think it is an aggravation. My dd's dad wants her to lose weight though so they are trying to follow the diet. They don't cook; every meal is eaten out, except breakfast during the week (she fixes that herself).

I was wondering if dd could add about 6 oz. milk, yogurt with Splenda, some more fruit, Nature's Own low carb bread (it's sugrar free too), and some other starches like potatoes and pasta (in very small amounts) to her daily/weekly menu and still lose weight.

Here at home she eats the Nature's Own bread but no yogurt, milk, potatoes, or pasta. She eats veggies, eggs, chicken, beef, pork, oatmeal (about once a week w/Splenda and Twin brown sugar), sf jelly, sf salad dressing, cantalope once in a while & some peanut butter.

She has learned to look at the labels on food and won't eat it if it has more than 3 grams of sugar and 10 carbs per serving. She likes some of the Atkins bars and sometimes has an Atkins shake.

Thank you for any advice and input.

~p31woman