Modified Low Calorie Diet

One of the nutritional programs offered at Dr. Haendiges' Medical Weight Loss is the medically prescribed Modified Low Calorie Diet. This modified diet can only be prescribed by a physician.

The Modified Low Calorie Diet Plan utilizes high quality meal replacement formulas, including nutrient-rich shakes, protein bars, soups and snacks combined with one low calorie meal each day. The Modified Low Calorie Diet also consists of comprehensive lifestyle education, including exercise and counseling to help you lose weight, improve your health, and develop - and maintain - the new skills and habits necessary to successfully manage your weight in the future.

This program utilizes dietary products only available to physicians to ensure a medically sound program, with complete nutrition necessary to maintain optimum health.

By using nutrient-rich formulas and personalized meal plans as part of the overall program, you can be confident that the modified program prescribed for you is one of the most successful and safest ways to break and change unhealthy eating patterns and start you on your way to long-term weight control.

What happens when I start the Modified Low Calorie Diet?

After choosing to start the Modified Low Calorie Diet Plan, your initial appointment will consist of a history and physical exam with Dr. Haendiges.  Dr. Haendiges will discuss your overall health, medications you may be taking, and your personal experience with diets and weight loss programs you may have tried in the past. With this information, Dr. Haendiges will create a personalized program to help you lose weight and most important, to keep the weight off.

You will have an EKG performed, which will be read by local Board-Certified Cardiologists. You will have a labs drawn to establish your baseline blood levels. Dr. Haendiges will send an initiation letter to your primary care physician to inform him/her that you have started the program with us.

You will be provided with all the materials and education to successfully begin the program. You will have the opportunity to ask Dr. Haendiges questions in a one-on-one setting. At this first appointment, we will show you our newly expanded product room.  We will explain all of your choices available for the Modified Low Calorie Diet Plan.  You will leave your appointment with ALL of the food and meal plans that you will need for the next two weeks.

Your follow up visits will be scheduled every other week.

What will I get every other week while on this program?

• Bi-Weekly visits with vital signs
• Bio-impedance scale to calculate total fat loss
• Follow up letters to primary care physicians as weight loss occurs
• Weekly mini physical as needed or targeted exam
• All the food you need for two weeks
• Meal plans for your daily meals
• Educational modules
• Weekly Membership to "Dialogue with Dr. Haendiges"