Comprehensive Dietary Package
The Comprehensive Dietary Package is our most basic routine package and is designed for those who want to lose weight with or without uncomplicated type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, or non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. This package will help you normalize your lab work and achieve and maintain a healthy body weight.
The Comprehensive Dietary Package is broken down into four separate, dated services, as follows;
1. In-depth clinical assessment: The first service is an in-depth clinical assessment, which is broken into two parts:
a. The first part of the assessment includes review of personal and family medical history, recent lab results, current medications and nutritional supplements, as well as your waist and hip measurements (10 minutes).
b. The second part of the assessment is a comprehensive dietary and lifestyle review, where I will collect detailed information, including what you like to eat and when, food likes and dislikes, religious, cultural, or ethical dietary restrictions, and other factors that impact your health and weight, such as sleep habits and activity level (50 minutes).
2. Design of Individual Meal Plan: The second service is the design of your individual Meal Plan, tailored to help you accomplish the goals that you set. Your Meal Plan will take into consideration the information collected during the assessment, medications you may be taking, risk factors you may have, lab test results, food preferences, and food restrictions, if any.
A detailed, multi-page Meal Plan Summary handout will be prepared to accompany your Meal Plan, summarizing the content of what you will be taught during the upcoming Nutritional Education Session. This Summary will also serve as a reference for you as you implement your Meal Plan.
The turnaround time for completing your Meal Plan will be approximately 2 weeks from the time I receive any requested or missing information, such as any nutrition labels or pending lab test results.
3. Nutrition Education Session: The Nutrition Education Session begins with you receiving your Meal Plan, as well as the detailed, multi-page Meal Plan Summary handout.
The visit will begin with a review of any existing risk factors, including weight, waist circumference, or out-of-range lab test results.
It will be followed by step-by-step teaching of your Meal Plan, including food categories, serving sizes, number of portions, and how to make substitutions within each food category at each meal. This session will walk you through implementing your Meal Plan, so all you need to do is decide what to eat.
You will also be provided with specific dietary and lifestyle recommendations to help you achieve the goals that you set.
Unless time doesn’t permit, the session will conclude with an opportunity to ask questions to clarify what you were taught. You will also be invited to send an email with questions you may have within a few days of the Nutrition Education Session, and your email will be answered at my earliest convenience so that you can begin to implement your Meal Plan.
4. Follow-up Visits: There is a choice of the type of follow-up visit, and either is to be used within 3 months of the assessment visit.
(1) Two half-hour follow-up appointments: each 1/2 hour visit is for reviewing weight and waist circumference, and answering questions about implementing the Meal Plan, or about making additional food substitutions, or following the Meal Plan while traveling.
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(2) A combined one-hour follow-up appointment: the first half hour will be spent reviewing weight and waist circumference, and how you are eating relative to the designed Meal Plan, and the second half hour will be used for me to adjust your Meal Plan based on changes you would like, or your revised weight and waist circumference, and then email it to you.
“I believe that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to improving health, and this is reflected in how I design Meal Plans. I tailor them to your specific needs, including food preferences (likes and dislikes), religious, cultural, or ethical restrictions, and whether you like to cook or not. I factor in real-life considerations, such as the need to cook for family members without having to make separate meals, and time limitations for shopping and preparing food.” ~Joy Y. Erdile, MSc., RD
Please note: At this time, all services are provided via a secure telehealth portal.
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