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I know you weren’t posting to me - but I’ve lost 19 pounds on Atkins over the last month. The science behind it is well reviewed, and has helped millions lose weight as well as keep it off.

The carbohydrates we consume are typically sugar or flour products, but one of the worst offenders is fruit juice.

Saturated fats themselves are actually easily digested and processed by our bodies - not stored as fat tissue as a carb rich diet. Meat. Butter. Hard cheese. LOTS of vegetables. NO bread, rice, potatoes, etc.

After lots of experimentation, I found that the foods that lowered his blood sugar were broccoli and avocado. Cauliflower is of the broccoli family. So the basis of the diet were those particular foods- some diary (milk and cheese) was temporarily banned, starchy vegetables were also banned, as was fruit. Protein was allowed, and eggs.

So the challenge became how to make cauliflower interesting - especially for breakfast. Well, I created a cauliflower purée which I use as an additive to practically everything. A few tablespoons in scrambled eggs, for example, makes a rather filling dish, and because cauliflower is rather bland, does not alter the expected taste.

After a time, we experimented bringing back the foods we had temporarily banned, and were met with many unexpected upsets. The biggest thing I'm finding is soy in the strangest places - after a little research I found that 95% of soy sold in the US is genetically altered. There is soy in a can of Starkist tuna!! Normally, tuna does not send his numbers up, but Starkist tuna does... I'm finding brands that I once trusted for years, I can no longer do so.

It's been a crazy road - right now, he's been without insulin for 50 days. And we're learning things about foods and how he reacts to them now that he is off insulin. I take his blood sugars a min of 4 times a day (sometimes more). Right now, he's sitting on a daily blood sugar average of 126. It wasn't too long ago, when he was much, much higher.