[susannah59]

It’s been years since I’ve read much on this diet, but IIRC it’s not just eating a lot of high-fat foods and staying away from carbs; it’s a fairly strict diet that has to be followed very carefully. It can work amazingly well but it does require commitment.

[Mad Dawg]

It's not what's in the food so much as is fooling the body into thinking it's starving so that it "switches over" to breaking down fats for energy,, since there aren't any carbs around. Then you supply the fats. My kid's breath smelled of acetone.

We followed it strictly and weighed everything she ate on a gram scale. It's mega-Atkins. You are trying to create an abnormal metabolic state and then preserve it for a long time.