Weight Loss

At energize we use Optifast as the preferred meal replacement therapy. Optifast was able to meet all of the recommended dietary intakes for women when replacing two meals a day.

Cutting down on sugar is an important step in healthy eating and many of the meal replacements tested contained more than 50% sugar. Optifast contains less than half the sugar content of most meal replacements. Just check the label when you are making up your shake.

High quality protein is an extremely important part of the meal replacement. Optifast has been designed with a high quality protein that is necessary to maintain our body’s lean muscle tissue.  The high levels of casein are thought to help reduce muscle wasting and there is some evidence that this slow acting protein may help reduce hunger.

The extra calcium in Optifast is also beneficial, some recent studies have indicated that dietary calcium is an important ingredient in weight loss and people that include  less than 400mg of calcium a day are less likely to lose weight.

Typically the level of weight loss expected using meal replacement therapy ranges from 1.5 to 2kg a week. I have personally been using meal replacement therapy in my practice for the past three years with great results, but meal replacement is only one piece of the puzzle in our success.

Helping to keep the weight off is where Energize really comes into it’s own. Our program involves a number of steps to transform the way you eat. This year we are running supermarket tours, healthy cooking and lifestyle classes to give you the edge and help remove a lot of the confusion about what to choose, how to cook and what you should be eating.

Another key difference is that at Energize we don’t just use weight to measure your change. At Energize we use BIA body composition analysis which measures your fat mass, muscle mass along with fluid changes