Low Carb Restricted Calorie Diet for Optimal Health and Weight
What is the Low Carb Restricted Calorie Diet?
The Low Carb Restricted Calorie Diet is a sensible, healthy, and safe method that your patients can follow in order to help them optimize their health and weight. This keto-type diet program is a nutritional approach to help optimize your health, minimize your risk of chronic disease, and maximize your weight loss.
BodySite’s Low Carb Restricted Calorie Diet puts a focus on improving metabolism and controlling blood sugar and is built on the notion that by eating a high fat, moderate protein and low carbohydrates, your patients will help their bodies convert from carb burning to fat burning. While a typical ketogenic diet involves keeping track of specific macronutrient ratios, the Low Carb Restricted Diet decreasing the amount of carbohydrates consumed and increasing fat and protein intake.
This keto-type diet will help your patients to optimize their weight, their overall health, and minimize their risk of chronic diseases.
How Can a Keto-Type Diet Benefit Your Patients?
You may have some patients that are looking to better their health and maximize their weight loss but aren’t quite sure of the exact type of diet they’ll want or if a keto-type diet is right for them. The benefits that come with following a low carb keto-type diet may vary, but each one typically includes benefits such as reduced risk of chronic diseases, weight loss, and appetite control.
Weight loss is one of the main reasons that patients tend to go for a ketogenic type diet due to evidence of faster weight loss when going on a low carbohydrate or ketogenic diet. Compared to traditional low-fat diets, low carbohydrate diets have shown better results for many patients.
A study was conducted on 66 obese people with a BMI >30 that were all instructed to eat <20 g of carbohydrates in the form of green vegetables and salads for 12 weeks and then they could increase the carbohydrates to 40 g/day for the remainder of the study. The weight and body mass index of all patients decreased significantly. This study along with others along the same lines have also found that low-carbohydrate diets were more effective in controlling hunger than low-fat diets. Better appetite control may further assist your patients in losing and maintaining optimal weight.
Low-carb diets have also been found to be helpful for those affected by diabetes and insulin resistance. Decreased carbohydrate intake has been shown to significantly lower blood sugar and insulin levels. Along with lower blood sugar levels, a low-carb diet also increases the size of ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol particles (which reduces their harmful effects) while increasing the levels of ‘good’ HDL cholesterol.
Very low carbohydrate ketogenic diets have also recently been promoted for a variety of health conditions, including obesity, diabetes, and liver disease. Keto-type diets may help your patients that are at risk of chronic diseases to manage their symptoms and decrease their risk of chronic disease.
This information will be important for your patients to know if they’re looking to follow a strict low carbohydrate diet that will help to optimize their health, weight, and decrease their risk of chronic diseases. The Low Carb Restricted Calorie Diet will properly equip them with the information needed to safely optimize their health and weight while receiving all of the health benefits that it can provide.
What Eating Habits Are Involved in This Diet Plan?
For your patients that aren’t already following a low carb restricted calorie lifestyle, changing their diet can be challenging in the beginning. Fortunately, this program is here to help make it easier for them. While a keto-type diet can be restrictive in some aspects, the food in this diet is in every grocery store and simple to prepare. Your patients will be encouraged to buy local, organic, grass fed foods as much as possible.
Some of the foods that are allowed in this plan include:
– Grass Produced Meats
– Fish and Seafood
– Fresh Vegetable (low carb) and Fruits (watch your daily carb count)
– Eggs
– Nuts and Seeds
– Healthful Oils (Olive, Flax-seed, Coconut oil, Walnut oil, Macadamia oil, avocado oil.
– Fats ( Avocado, butter, nut butters, coconut flesh, coconut milk, lard, duck fat, veal fat)
– Spices
Your patients will also be provided with meal tips that will help make their low carb diet easier for them to follow. One of these tips includes using omega 3 enriched or free range eggs and preparing them any style for breakfast, or perhaps a fruit smoothie for breakfast instead or as a post workout meal/snack. They may also benefit from cooking extra when planning dinners so they can save the leftovers for lunch or dinner the next day, or just keeping lunches simple by preparing a large portion at the beginning of the week for them to use for lunch throughout the week.
What’s Inside the Plan?
Guiding your patients through new eating habits and lifestyles can be difficult, and it can definitely be a chore to collect all of the needed information.
Fortunately, their program will provide them with daily recipes, motivation, guidance, and tasks in order to help them transition to the Low Carb Restricted Calorie Diet made specially for them. This way, they can maintain their keto-type eating plan even after the 30 days are up.
Each day, their program will start with some motivation or helpful tips that they can follow throughout their everyday lives. Here is an example:
These are intended to keep your patients motivated and/or to give them some tips and ideas that will help them maintain a healthy lifestyle during and after the Low Carb Restricted Calorie Diet Plan. Patients can take in the information provided and use it throughout their daily lives.
Their daily motivation or tips are then followed by daily tasks that will keep them on a healthy, grounded schedule throughout their plan. Here is an example:
These tasks encourage patients to make sure they are tracking the food and metrics that need to be tracked in order to keep you updated with their progress.
Following these tasks are the daily recipes that your patients will follow. They are provided with a shopping list for each week so that they never miss a day of good meals. Here is an example:
Each day provides this content for your patients and are a great help when it comes to easily adjusting to their new plan.
Why the Low Carb Restricted Calorie Diet?
We recognize that some doctors and some patients may need individualized approaches to wellness plans, so that’s why our Low Carb Restricted Calorie Diet Plan as well as our 60+ other remote care programs are all customizable using our content management system, if you choose to modify the program.
Their program will also come with access to a complete remote patient monitoring web portal and app for iPhone and Android. Patients will be able to track their progress, keep a journal, and follow your prescribed program materials everyday with ease, all while making the process of health monitoring much easier for you.
Use the Low Carb Restricted Calorie Diet today and help your patients experience the benefits of this eating style including a reduced risk of chronic diseases, weight loss/improved metabolism, blood sugar control, lower cholesterol levels, and optimal health. If you’re not already using the BodySite remote care platform, you can sign up for a free trial at this link. If you’re already a member, check out the Low Carb Restricted Calorie Diet today!
SOURCES:
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8153354/
3. https://nutritionandmetabolism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-7075-2-34