WHAT I’M TRYING TO ACHIEVE WITH THE KE DIET®

WHAT I’M TRYING TO ACHIEVE WITH THE KE DIET®

As some of you know, I have been managing my weight for many years.  My top weight was around 300 pounds, and my lowest weight in 10 years was 220.  Well, the plain truth is that Saturday morning (February15th) I weighed 260.4.  My BMI is 33.2 (Obese) and InBody 720 Body Composition Analysis shows that I am 186.5 pounds of lean mass and 73.9 pounds of fat.  Now you should know that Obesity is a disease of excess body fat (called excess adiposity).  What’s the bottom line here for Wickham?  I need to lose 41.2 pounds of body fat.   

So, what am I going to do about this disease of Obesity or excess body fat?  Over the next 8 weeks I am going to do 3 cycles of the KE Diet®. In between cycles I will follow a calorie restricted, portion controlled low-carbohydrate diet.  My goal – lose the fat!  During this time, I will be under the care of Dr. Eric Westman who is the Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Clinic at Duke University.  I will be reporting to all of you my progress and various notes about my experience.  I hope you will follow along.

Finally, please register for the free KE Diet® giveaway which will occur on Monday March 17^th.  See our website www.pa-weightloss.com for details on how to sign up.

PS - At the time of this post, I have already lost 7 pounds!

The KE Diet®

 

The KE Diet®

Physician Assisted Weight Loss is now offering the KE Diet® to our list of regular services.  So, what is the KE Diet®?  It is a 10 day diet that uses a tiny nutrition tube (that goes through your nose to your stomach) to deliver a special feeding solution that produces rapid weight loss – for many patients 10% of their body weight in 10 days.

We now have a new tab on our website so that you can read more about it. 

You will also see me in the office with this KE Diet® tube in my nose – that’s right.  I am doing the KE diet and my treating physician is Dr. Eric Westman who is Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Clinic at Duke and the President of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians.  He first introduced my to this cutting edge weight loss technology along with all the science and clinical experience physicians have using it.  I must admit that I have found it to be comfortable and easy to adapt to.

I encourage all of you to follow my progress over the next 60 days so you can see what the KE Diet® looks like, how I am able to perform my daily activities while doing it, and how it produces superior weight loss.  You can follow me on Facebook, Twitter, this Blog, and YouTube.  Just go to the website and click on any of those icons at the bottom of the page to follow.  Regular updates will appear starting on Monday February 17^th and I will update the sites several times per week.  So, Stay Tuned!

Holiday Eating Guide

Holiday Eating Guide

Veggies and meat

Are good to eat,

And fruit and fish

Should fill your dish.

But sugar and grain

Will cause you pain,

And if it comes from a packet

Your diet should lack it.

Happy Thanksgiving

Alright Everybody,

Remember to approach your eating and drinking activities today with a sense of sobriety and moderation.  Hope it goes well for everybody.

Wickham

Funny Thanksgiving Prayer

Humorous Thanksgiving Prayer

When turkey’s on the table laid,
And good things I may scan,
I’m thankful that I wasn’t made
A vegetarian.

-Edgar A. Guest

Please also remember that gorging yourself with a bunch of carbs is not a good way to thank God for all that is good in your life.

Wickham

The Protein Challenge

Take The Protein Challenge

I want to tell you about my patient Glenda, who one month ago decided to take the Protein Challenge.  Glenda first came to see us the first week of February.  She started the diet along with medication and by the first week of March she had lost 21.8 pounds!  From the first week of March to the first week of April she lost 7.6 pounds.  At that point she decided to take the Protein Challenge.  She began having one or our HealthWise protein drinks with her first meal of the day.  On some days she had a second protein drink around 4 pm.  What were her results?  I saw her yesterday and she has lost another 12 pounds!  After taking the Protein Challenge she lost 4.4 pounds more than she did the previous month.  That’s a little more than 1 pound a week more.  Since February Glenda has lost 41.4 pounds!

Here’s what Glenda told me about her experience using HealthWise protein drinks –

1.     It made me fuller and more satisfied quickly

2.     They are convenient and easy to use

3.     They taste terrific; I could not tell it was a protein drink

4.     It got me out of my 4pm “slump”

Remember, high protein meals and snacks preserve lean muscle mass, increase your sense of satiety, and they raise your metabolism during the process of digestion.  So, I continue to challenge you to one of our HealthWise protein drinks just prior to your first meal of the day.  They are only 70-80 calories (depending on flavor), they have 15 grams of protein, and they taste great.  Try it – you’ll feel fuller on less calories while sparing muscle and burning fat.   What are you waiting for?  Take the Protein Challenge!

Beat the Bloat

Beat the Bloat

You know sodium best as table salt, but salt and sodium are hidden in all kinds of products, including packaged foods, fast foods, frozen foods, canned foods, and condiments, to name a few.When you eat sodium, the excess sodium is deposited just beneath the skin where it attracts water, which is retained in your cells. This makes you look puffy and feel bloated.
You don't have to make yourself crazy over this, because there is sodium in everything! But here are a few tips:

• Read labels to check the sodium content of what you're eating.
• Replace processed foods with fresh.
• Avoid prepackaged and canned foods.
• Be wary of salt-laden condiments and use very little soy sauce, mustard, and table salt.
• Go easy on dairy, and avoid processed meat (hot dogs, jerky, bologna, corned beef), anything pickled (pickles, capers, sauerkraut), relish, ketchup, and butter.

Here are some sodium-free substitutes you can use instead: garlic, lemon, olive oil, vinegar, pepper, basil, cayenne, chili powder, cilantro, cumin, curry, dill, garlic powder, ginger, lemon, lime, mint, onion powder, oregano, paprika, parsley, rosemary, sage, tarragon, and thyme.

Go Veggies!

Diuretic veggies will also help because they contain potassium, which can help prevent fluid retention and metabolic slowdown. Spinach, lettuce, all greens (mustard, collard, beet, dandelion), parsley, argula, watercress, asparagus, and cucumber all have diuretic qualities. So eat up!