My son, 12 years old, (5'6" ; 223 lbs) came home from the doctors office with his father about 2 weeks ago and said that the doctor had "prescribed" a "NO Carb" diet. This I didn't understand at all.

Yesterday, I took my son for a followup visit because I wanted to ask about the veggies, fruits, milk....all the things that I have been taught that we need as we are growing. After weighing in and him weighing 3 lbs less.......I'm thinking...Praise the Lord! He's lost some weight and done good!....but that wasn't how the doctor felt. He looked at my son and said...are you serious about this or not? Because if you are...it WILL work, but....you haven't been doing it have you...been cheating huh? That is when we found out that our son had been "cheating" by sneaking off to Jack in the Box and Sonic unbeknownst to us. That 's when our doctor started explaining to me about the LC to no Carb diet and how my son, at his age should have dropped a pound a day during those 2 weeks. That's when I started "listening". So, needless to say, myself, my husband and my son are now on this lifestyle change to eating all the "right" foods instead of the wrong foods.

I have just gotten the new Atkins New Revolution book as well as their cookbook and have barely began to read it, so I am very new to this and don't know all the terminology yet like Kenitosis? Induction? WOE? etc. I am having to relearn how and what to cook.

I am still concerned about whether or not it is safe for our son to be eating only meat and things with NO CARBS in it at his age? Is this SAFE? What about milk and the vitamins from our vegetables and fruit? I'm sure that I will understand a little more as I read the book, but, that will probably take me a while so I'm looking for either some encouragement or reinforcment now that we are doing the right thing for our son, as well as changing our own habits, at least until I have a better understanding of what and why we are doing it.

Sorry about all the questions....I am a newbie to all of this.
Bonnie