Weight Loss Programme With Living Lighter & Healthier As Reward

Living Lighter and Healthier is Based on the research and clinical experience of the following doctors, researchers, and clinicians:

Dr Sara Gottfried, Dr Dale Bredesen, Dr Lisa Mosconi, Dr Daniel Amen,
Dr Michael Greger, Dr Peter Attia and others.

(All experts in their field, but independent from one another)

and my experience in applying it, personally and to other customers.

The Living Lighter and Healthier Protocol is for those who want to lose weight. It draws from the knowledge and tested approaches of these researchers and clinicians to provide a personalized scientific based programme for women and men, to regain their health, reap weight loss as reward and then get healthier as they get older.

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The Midlife Matters Weight Loss Programme Details

Our programme is the culmination of research and clinical experience of various pockets of excellence in the fields of restoring metabolic health, dementia prevention and weight loss. The benefit of each of these centers of excellence is that cognitive decline is prevented or reversed, and metabolic health is regained, but the common denominator in all these programmes is weight loss. The focus is not to lose weight but to reclaim health, and this invariably results in weight loss. Hence our focus is to target those who are overweight. Not only to help them to lose weight but to prevent disease that is the inevitable byproduct down the line of being overweight.

The programme is made available on-line via group or individual sessions and consists of three phases each lasting 4 weeks – in total 12 weeks.

Assessment phase once you start our programme to assess your risks for metabolic health and related conditions

By now you have done the health risk assessment and are aware of your risk factors. The best way to identify your health risk factors is by means of various blood tests that will give you an exact indication of your deficiencies and causes for your weight gain and other symptoms.

Once you start our program, I will conduct a thorough individual assessment with you and consult one of our medical practitioner partners to determine the blood tests best suited for your profile. This is to tailor-make our programme for you and to save cost by not doing unnecessary expensive blood tests. These tests will be discussed with you and the cost is for your account and over and above the fees for the 12-week programme. If you need to consult a medical practitioner based on your blood tests, you can choose one of our doctors or use your regular practitioner. The cost of this, plus the required medication, will be for your account. Medical aids usually contribute to the cost depending on your specific plan.

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Test recommendations

Once we have done your assessment, the following tests might be recommended:
TSH
Thyroid panel (T-3, T-4, Reverse T-3)
Progesterone (For women only. If premenopausal, test on day 21 of the menstrual cycle – day 1 is the first day of bleeding. If post-menopausal, do the test any day.)
Estrogen (For women only. Testing is the same as for progesterone.)
Cortisol (Test at 08h00 in the morning)
Growth Hormone (IGF-1)
Testosterone (Free and Total)
DHEAs (Test at 08h00 in the morning)
Lipogram (Ensure 12h00 fasting) in South Africa. In the USA, this is called a Lipid Panel. You may drink water but not eat any food before testing.
Hs-CRP (inflammation marker)
Insulin fasting (Ensure 12-hour fasting)
Glucose fasting (Ensure 12-hour fasting)
HbA1C
Uric acid (Urate)
Vitamin B12 and Vit D
Additional Recommendations
Bone mineral density (BMD) using DEXA
As we progress through the programme, more assessments could be done to examine your personal risks more thoroughly. If necessary, your doctor or one of our panel doctors will be contacted to provide further medical assistance.
We will ensure you get a copy of your blood test results.

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The rest of the programme will be as follows:

PHASE 1: Implement your personalised food plan and other metabolic health interventions
Duration: Four 2-hour online sessions over 4 weeks.
You selected your preferred time slots. We will stick to these time slots throughout the programme where possible.
Week 1: Prepare for the journey
Understand the science behind the programme so you can speak “Hormones”
Start your detoxification protocol. Toxins we are all exposed to are stored and accumulated in fat cells, and as you lose weight, the toxins are released into your body. If not removed via your detox pathways, they will get re-circulated into your body, and you will feel tired and have flu-like symptoms. Detoxification clears out your liver and tired hormones that are clogging up your metabolism. The detox process runs parallel to the rest of the programme.
Set a realistic weight loss goal for yourself.
Introduce your specific food plan.
Introduce the role of healthy metabolic habits in your protocol.
Get your mind right for the journey to your health.
Weeks 2 to 4: Start the process of becoming metabolically healthy
Guide you through your specific food plan. Suppose you are insulin resistant and/or having dementia symptoms. In that case, we recommend a ketogenic food plan to induce nutritional ketosis, teaching your brain how to switch from using glucose as a source of energy to prefer fat as the fuel source. This will start the process of restoring normal insulin levels and losing weight by taking a woman’s unique body into account. Those who are not insulin resistant or have dementia symptoms will go on a nutrition plan that minimizes the intake of meat, eggs, and dairy and optimizes the consumption of whole plant-based foods, such as fruits, vegetables, legumes (beans, split peas, chickpeas, and lentils), whole grains (oats, barley, rye, buckwheat) nuts, seeds, mushrooms and herbs and spices. When the insulin resistance is reversed, those on the ketogenic plan will transition to the whole plant-based foods nutrition plan.
Introduce fasting, better sleep hygiene, exercise, stress management and brain stimulation techniques.
You will be guided to monitor your progress by measuring and recording the following personal data:
Protein, carbs, and fat intake based on your unique profile
Ketone levels
Blood Pressure
Blood sugar levels
Waist circumference
Weight
BMI
Sleep pattern
Fasting duration
Exercise routine
Your improved metabolic flexibility to determine your own pace
• Supplementation and or medication will be introduced based on your blood results
• Troubleshooting to ensure progress
PHASE 2: Transition to a women-adapted nutritional ketosis food plan and lifestyle for you. Men will have a lighter version of this.
Duration: Four 2-hour online sessions over 4 weeks.
Weeks 5 to 8: By now, you will be used to using healthy fat as a primary source of energy. Some hormones, like your thyroid and adrenal glands, however, need glucose to function optimally. Therefore, we need to determine your carb tolerance ceiling to help you switch between fat and glucose based on your brain and hormonal needs and available nutrients.
During phase two, we will determine your upper and lower limits of the amount of carbs and fat that work best for you. This will also ensure that you feed those hormones (Thyroid) and organs such as kidneys that require glucose without losing the ability to use fat as your primary fuel source.
The objective is to restore metabolic flexibility to feed all hormones and organs with their preferred energy source, namely glucose or fat. The trick is to increase your carb intake whilst staying on the edge of nutritional ketosis so not to gain the weight you lost during the previous weeks. This will reveal your carb threshold for weight loss towards a normal BMI. The goal is to transition you to a whole food plant-based plan.
By now, you will feel the benefits of the interventions, resulting in your having balanced hormones. This will motivate you to stick to your new habits for the rest of your life. Weight loss will be your reward.
PHASE 3: Practice Lifelong Healthy Lifestyle Habits
Duration: Four 2-hour online sessions once per week for 4 weeks.
During this phase, the following is covered:
• Identify and manage any food intolerances that will constrain your
     progress
• Manage relapses if it happens
• Plan your future alteration between phases 1 and 2 to keep you
  metabolically healthy
Understand the 11 Aging Pathways that contribute to accelerated ageing and how to mitigate these risks to slow down the ageing process
• Learn skills to protect yourself against friends and family that provides
     temptations to fall off your wagon
• Establish your support system
• How to become an exemplar of metabolic health to others by practising
  the gift of giving
Throughout the programme, we will be with you to ensure you stay on the path to your health.

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