Welcome to the Carolina
Lifetime Diets
These programs are the best way for
you to lose weight, improve your health and appearance and
enjoy life again!
The Carolina Lifetime Diets are designed
to help you learn to eat well and lose your weight quickly. Everything in our life seems to run
at full speed and you need your diet to work quickly too. Our diets will help let you pick how quickly
you lose and help you live well in the process!
To ensure that you have the best chance
of losing your weight quickly AND keep it off long term
you need to stay away from fad diets or fad foods.
We will help you do that by combining the strengths
of the many of diets and avoiding their weaknesses.
It is important to set your long-term
weight goals to include a plan to keep off what you lose!
You must learn to build a good nutritional pattern that
will help you move into a long-term healthy way of eating.
By moving through our diets, you will do that!
You have, no doubt, looked around
to see what diets are available.
The following are some of the major shortcomings
to today’s diet trends.
1.
Any
successful single nutrient diet (low fat
or low carbohydrate) will eventually create a new food market
in the food industry’s attempt to meet the changes.
This often leads to misleading statements and too much
dependence on foods that have been adjusted to go along with
these trends. Our goal is to see you through these
on and off changes to ensure that you lose your weight and
keep it off.
We have
seen major changes in diets in the last two decades.
Low fat dieting was all the rage for years, but with
seemingly every food have a low fat choice, people began
to feel that they could eat all of the fat free foods they
wished. As
you know, they often began to gain weight.
Today, it seems like you cannot go or
do anything without running into low carbohydrate foods.
Beware! These may be helpful, but don’t fall into
the trap that they are completely safe and you don’t have
to worry about them.
Let us teach you to look at the full nutrition that
a food contains.
2.
Knowing that you will be successful
on our diets, we must consider how you will transition from
more restrictive diets to a long term eating pattern. Some diets actually can make it more difficult
to make this transition, we will make it easy!
I have
run into a problem trying to help people maintain their
loss after being on a low carbohydrate diet like Atkins.
I will agree that rapid weight loss is very possible,
but it also develops some bad eating habits that, if not
maintained under the strict guidelines of the Atkins program,
can lead to a lifetime of eating more fat than is healthy.
We can get you that loss and help you keep it off too.
3.
Behavior modification is critical
but behaviors such as counting fats, carbohydrates, or even
calories is usually short term and if relied upon can allow
a person to fail in maintenance as they naturally shift away
from counting.
It is inevitable
that you will have to read labels and pay attention to serving
sizes and the nutritional breakdown of the food. You will even have to count things on
occasion on any diet. However, a diet that relies on counting
will not work long term, for most people, and you need to
make sure that you are learning about food and food choices
as well.
4.
All
diets require work, THERE IS NO MAGIC, but with some effort
and support, you will be able to reach your goals.
Beware of
false claims or medications, etc. that promise remarkable
changes with little work, they seldom do as much as claimed
and often do nothing at all. We work to find what does work to ensure
that you meet realistic goals and have long term success
The diets that we offer will provide
you with ways of evaluating your food choices, learning
what types of foods can keep you satisfied while keeping
your metabolism working efficiently and keeping you feeling
satisfied. They
are low in both carbohydrate and fat while allowing significant
amounts of food.
The diets are all low-carb and low-fat. They vary from extremely rapid weight
loss, requiring supplementation with protein drinks to a
full food program, that only relies on your foods and motivation.
The Carolina Lifetime
Family of Diets Include
The Carolina
Lifetime Fasting Diet (available only to clinic patients)
The Carolina
Lifetime Modified Fasting Plus Diet
Lifetime Modified Fasting Diet
The Carolina
Lifetime Plus Diet
The Carolina
Lifetime Diet
Product
Comparison
| Program |
Protein
Supplements/Day |
Meals |
Calories |
| Fasting |
5 |
0 |
500 |
Modified Fasting
Plus |
3 |
1 |
600 - 700 |
| Modified Fasting |
2 |
2 |
800 - 900 |
| Lifetime Plus |
1 |
2 - 3 |
900 - 1000 |
| Lifetime |
0 |
3 |
1100 - 1300 |
Everyone
is different and you should pick a diet that you know you
can do and not set yourself up for failure. It is usually
beneficial to start on a more restrictive plan and move
toward adding foods as you lose weight and your behavior
begins to change. These diets are designed to transition you from
one diet to another while the Carolina Lifetime Diet will
help you transition toward maintaining your loss while still
allowing for significant weight improvements in your health
Choosing a diet for you is a balance between
your lifestyle and how fast you want to lose.
Don’t aim for perfection,
aim for a realistic lifestyle and good choices. But be ready
for rapid change!
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