A couple weeks ago Kaiser sent me a letter on this Health Management Program. I felt like it was time to try again because I was putting on weight faster than I had been. It was out of control and I really needed to have someone beat me into submission....well at least to help me for a period of time. They didn't say how much the program cost, so I called them.
They said I should go to their meeting and I would find out all details there. So, I signed up for the meeting.
The meeting, held at Union City Kaiser was rather interesting. It is an 82 week program, a year and a half. It is medically controlled and the liquid diet part is a prescription. The liquid diet lasts for the first 4 months, meanwhile you are being medically monitored and training starts for transition to normal food.
The little show and tell was rather interesting. There are lots of health issued that can be cured or lessened. I was impressed by the amount of monitoring they will do.
The daily diet food is 960 calories per day. plus 1 gallon of water per day.
The food consists of 3 flavors of shakes, many kinds of bars and a couple kinds of soup. They gave us samples of all the shakes and bars. The bars were very good, especially the chocolate mint. The shakes were room temperature and I think would be better cold. I didn't try the strawberry shake but the vanilla was ok, the chocolate was rather tasty.
The cost is $90 per week for the diet food which is needed for 4 months. Then the other fees add up to about $1200 for the year and a half. It is expensive but so is the loss of health.
With the idea that this is going to be a big change in my life and if it helps the pain of the arthritic hip that will be a bonus to the weight loss. Most all people in this program loose 40 lbs that first 4 months. A few keep loosing for a while in transition.
So, I signed up
They said I should go to their meeting and I would find out all details there. So, I signed up for the meeting.
The meeting, held at Union City Kaiser was rather interesting. It is an 82 week program, a year and a half. It is medically controlled and the liquid diet part is a prescription. The liquid diet lasts for the first 4 months, meanwhile you are being medically monitored and training starts for transition to normal food.
The little show and tell was rather interesting. There are lots of health issued that can be cured or lessened. I was impressed by the amount of monitoring they will do.
The daily diet food is 960 calories per day. plus 1 gallon of water per day.
The food consists of 3 flavors of shakes, many kinds of bars and a couple kinds of soup. They gave us samples of all the shakes and bars. The bars were very good, especially the chocolate mint. The shakes were room temperature and I think would be better cold. I didn't try the strawberry shake but the vanilla was ok, the chocolate was rather tasty.
The cost is $90 per week for the diet food which is needed for 4 months. Then the other fees add up to about $1200 for the year and a half. It is expensive but so is the loss of health.
With the idea that this is going to be a big change in my life and if it helps the pain of the arthritic hip that will be a bonus to the weight loss. Most all people in this program loose 40 lbs that first 4 months. A few keep loosing for a while in transition.
So, I signed up
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