??|About muscle aching and cramping on Atkins??

[rbuzzotta]

DH has been doing AWESOME on Atkins. He is down 30 lbs and looks fabulous!!! He was experiencing some muscle fatique, aches, cramping.................I am having him eat foods high in Potassium this weekend...........lots of bananas and tomatoes....he is feeling better and will go back to Atkins tomorrow....(I need to get my Atkins book back from my friend!)

anyone take a particular vitamin that is high in potassium???
Which one??


Thanks...............

[Mom of Sleepy, Bashful and BabyDoc]

Well, I think potassium is a mineral, isn't it? Maybe I'm wrong. My Herbalife multivitamin has 30 mg of potassium in it and I take three of those a day(one with each meal).

An Atkins OK food that is high in potassium is the avacado. Meat and spinach are moderately high. Is he taking a "good" multivitamin?? I say good because there are two "grades" in over the counter vitamins. Nutritional grade (stuff you find at Walmart,GNC) which, by law, can contain up to 30% filler. And pharmaceutical grade (Herbalife, Shak-lee, etc.) which can only have up to 2% filler.

Atkins does recommend taking a multivitamin.

Hope that helps a little. I'm still in the learning stages myself but I find this stuff very interesting. :D

[Meriweather]

My DH is on Atkins also.
He has taken One a Day mutivitamin for men and also Atkins essential oil capsules since the beginning and has no problems.

[married2grumpy]

It's so funny you posted this because I've been feeling at night like I was going to get a leg cramp. I haven't had these cramps in my calves since I was pregnant. I was wondering if it may have something to do with Atkins. I've only been doing it for 1 week now and I do take a multivitamin. Hopefully these "feelings" I'm getting won't turn into actual leg cramps. I hate those!

[Rhonda]

I take a potassium pill before bed every night, and I haven't had problems with leg cramps.

There is potassium in my multivitamin, but I supplement it with an extra potassium pill.