Older Kids/Was just a few questions...

[Guest guest]

" I gotta ask this too. I see that almost all the parents posting

have young

> children on this diet. Does this mean that it's not really helpful

for older

> kids, teens, adults? Does this mean that eventually people throw in

the

> towel with the diet becuase they think it is not worth it or they

get so

> tired of it? Or that once kids get older it is impossible to get

them to

> stick to it?

> Alternatively, does it mean that eventually the system is repaired

and

> people can go back to eating " normal " foods? HOPE SO!

>

> la "

This list is growing so quickly that it sometimes seems to be mainly

parents of fairly recently diagnosed children, thus the younger

ages. But there are plenty of us with older children, even adults,

on the list. Some listmates have followed the diet for more than 5

years.

My son (10) and I are almost 11 months on the diet, and it just gets

easier & easier & we'll never go back. " Normal " food to us is

now " unhealthy " food, and both of us feel the negative impact. I

can't say what my son will do when he's well into his teens, but for

now he religiously reads ingredient lists and questions people who

hand him food. He has removed fruit roll-ups from his " ok " list on

his own because he found himself unable to do school work after

eating one a teacher gave him. We're fortunate that he's very verbal

and we can talk about his initial feelings of loss and cheer about

all the gains he's made on the diet.