ATKINS DIET? anyone try and have RELIEF from Crohn's?

I am horrible at following diets religiously, but I find that I feel better and have less issues if I eat mostly protein. In fact my body tends to crave those foods, so I would say my diet is probably 75% protein with sugar and carbs making up the other 25%.

I admit I am hopeless at following any kind of diet as I have trouble keeping weight on so can eat whatever I want when I want. During this flare have tried recently to keep to high protein/low residue diet but even then I am not very strict with myself. Have cut out caffeine and stopped smoking and trying to avoid anything with too much fibre. Guess what, now I really crave a bowl of shreddies! Typical.

Diet is such a personal choice on a good day let alone with CD !

A friend of mine has followed Atkins for years and it has kept the weight off but she now has major issues with her cholesterol -so be maybe just be mindful of the bad fats and their long term impact on your health :)

This is a question/concern of mine also. Live without Bread and Nourishing Traditions (two books I like and respect) both say high fat is both good and required. Paleo Diet says, go low fat. SCD does not say much on this subject.
I am trying to figure this out. Right now I think I will go medium. But I wish I know the correct path. I have eaten low fat for years so this is not an issue. I am adding fat on purpose and maybe I should not be.
One good thing about fat is it is high calorie. So I can eat the same amount of virtually the same things but by adding fat I can up the calories.
No answers here, just more questions

Dave

Cheers Jorel, (cool name)

Before I even was diagnosed with crohn's I did the atkins faithfully, lost 20 pounds, only to get very sick with crohn's and gain back the 20 and even more. Would never do it again.

i did the makers diet while facing colostomy surgery. you dont get much of a bigger flare than that. the makers diet, like atkins, at least in phase 1 and 2, has you off ALL grain based foods. this means you eat protein, fat, and veggies. this is very hard for us. i had to sustain somehow off my danger foods - i had not been eating vegetables very much in over a decade and now they were to become a staple. somehow i did it. digestive enzymes and probiotics really helped. so did cheating and starting with phase 3 and then doing it from the beginning as i had already gotten used to eating in the maintenance phase, but that was very scary to do.

A few years ago I followed the South Beach Diet, which has a lot of similarities to Atkins, and noticed a huge improvement in my crohn's. I actually wondered if I had a bit of a gluten intolerance, because in essence I cut out gluten. I've been meaning to try a gluten free diet to prove that theory, but haven't done it yet.

I think I agree with Kiwi here in that no matter what diet you follow, if it works for you then you have to follow whats best for you. Although I would be concerned eating so many carbs. I think you need to get some good fruits and veggies in there to help too. I personally follow a somewhat modified low residue diet, and thats what works best for "me". I hope you find what works best for you. Hugs!

If Atkins works for you, then you might want to try the SCD diet. SCD is less restrictive, and more well balanced, than Atkins. For everybody who still believes that a high fat diet leads to high cholesterol, please be advised that the latest research does NOT show a link between the food intake of cholesterol and high cholesterol.
What CAN cause heart disease is sugar and trans fats (for instance, eating margarine instead of butter).

This is from Harvard, talking about the lack of a relationship between the total amount of fat in the diet and weight or disease. It talks about how the type of fat matters...trans fats are the worst. However, I disagree with what the study says about saturated fat: "Why hasn't cutting fat from the diet paid off as expected? Detailed research—much of it done at Harvard—shows that the total amount of fat in the diet isn't really linked with weight or disease. What really matters is the type of fat in the diet." http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/fats-full-story/

This is the latest wiki entry, talking about how a meta-analysis (this means the scientist has taken a whole bunch of studies done, then analyzed them altogether, which is a great way to find out whether there really is or isn't a relationship), questions whether there is any link between saturated fat and heart disease. Butter is a saturated fat, and so is coconut oil. "Not all research finds the link between saturated fat and cardiovascular disease clear. In 2010, a meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies found no statistically significant relationship between cardiovascular disease and dietary saturated fat." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat The wiki entries have footnotes attached to them. If you google "saturated fat good" you can find a lot more info. My daughter eats butter, cheese, and coconut oil with abandon - if anything, her cholesterol is too low (you do need cholesterol to metabolize Vitamin D, etc).

The Harvard nutrition letter is a good step in the right direction, overturning conventional wisdom in saying that the total amount of fat eaten does NOT bear a relationship to heart disease. Maybe, one of these days, Harvard will go another step further and admit saturated fat is not bad fat.

I tried the Maker's Diet quite strictly for several months and it did help my symptoms somewhat, but I'm not sure how it affected the actual CD. I did not eat everything on its menu because I had a stricture and nuts and some of the roughage and whole grains were just not happening. Also, raw or unpasturized dairy seem way to risky and I think dairy makes me worse too (sometimes).
When my flare was at its worst, I tried to do the diet strictly again, but had to switch to a more easy to digest low roughage (still more natural though) diet.

When it comes to CD, I think it takes trial and error with any diet.