You Can Eat Apple Pie and Lose 2-5 lbs a Week by Medical Weight Loss Philadelphia
In our Philadelphia weight loss program our goal is to have our weight loss patients lose 2 – 5 pounds per week and we try to make this an easy and tasty process. So here are a 4 great recipes for 400 calorie meals that will make losing weight simple and delicious.
Everyone loves dessert and almost everyone loves a good apple pie so our first recipe is going to be for Apple pie.
*Apple Pie
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup of graham crackers, crushed
- 5 apples quartered and peeled
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon of allspice
- 1/4 cup raisins
- 1/3 cup unsweetened apple juice
Spray a microwavable safe pie plate with nonstick vegetable oil spray. Spread the graham cracker crumbs in the plate. Cover with the Apple slices. Sprinkle with the spices. Sprinkle the raisins over top. Pour the juice over this. Cover and microwave for about 15 minutes. This makes 8 servings and each serving had about 81 calories.
*Chile Relleno Casserole
Now this recipe is usually for lunch or dinner but we’re going to add in strict and to it and make it a recipe that’s suitable for breakfast.
Ingredients:
- 4 ounces of green chili peppers
- 8 ounces of low-fat cheddar cheese grated
- 4 ounces low-fat Monterey Jack cheese grated
- 1 cup of egg substitute
- 2 tablespoons of all-purpose flour
- 14 ounces of fat-free evaporated milk
- Rinse the chilies and remove the seeds. Place half the Chilies in a greased casserole dish. Sprinkle half of both of the cheeses on top of this and then add the remaining chilies. And top this with the rest of the cheese. Beat the egg substitute, flour and evaporated milk together until its smooth. Pour over the top and bake for approximately 45 minutes in 350°F. This makes approximately 3 servings.
*Quiche Mexican-style
Ingredients:
- 4 whole-wheat tortillas, 8 inch
- 2 ounces of Monterey Jack cheese
- 8 ounces of turkey sausage
- 1/2 cup of onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup of red or green bell pepper, chopped
- 1 cup egg substitute
- 1 cup of skim milk
Heat the tortillas and place in a small dish such as a Super Bowl that has been sprayed with nonstick oil spray. Top with half of the cheese. Cook fish sausage, onion and peppers and then add them to this dish. Mix together the remaining ingredients and pour over top. Top with the rest of the cheese. Bake at 350°F for about 30 to 35 minutes until the eggs are set. This makes 4 servings
*Granola Cookies
Ingredients:
- 1 cup of dates, firmly packed
- 1 cup of apple juice concentrate
- 3 tablespoons of peanut butter
- 3 tablespoons of honey
- 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
- 1 tablespoon of molasses
- 1 tablespoon of walnuts chopped
- 1/2 cup of coconut
- 1/2 cup of raisins
- 2 1/3 cups of whole-wheat flour or almond flour
- 2 cups of quick cooking oats
Blend the dates and apple juice concentrate until smooth; add the peanut butter, honey, vanilla and molasses. Blend well and place in a mixing bowl. Add the nuts, Coconut, raisins and flour and mix well. Add the rolled oats and blend, you can use your hands if needed. Spoon this mixture onto nonstick cookie sheet and press with the wet fork or your fingers until it’s about 1/4 inch thick. Bake at 300°F for about 20 minutes. Each cookie has 86 calories.
I hope you enjoy these recipes as much as I do and if you need help with losing weight I invite you to call us and schedule a consultation. Call us at 215-821-7336
*These recipes are from the book 500 – 400-Calorie Recipes by Dick Logue. You should definitely have this book in your kitchen for delicious low calorie meals.
- Published in Diet Doctors in Philadelphia, Medical Weight Loss, Weight Loss, weight loss philadelphia
Philadelphia Diet Doctor Loses 82 LBS – Drops From 247 LBS to 165 LBS
Today August 7, 2015 I have officially reached a milestone. I have lost 82 pounds over the past several months. In the beginning of this year I weighed 247 pounds and this morning I am 165 pounds. I am literally fitting into skinny jeans. And this morning my wife told me I am too skinny. I never thought anyone would ever tell me that I was too skinny.
If you are one of our medical weight loss patients in our Philadelphia or Bucks County office you know my story. And even if you just follow this blog on our website you probably have read some of the very personal articles that I have written throughout this past year. An abbreviated version is I was in a car accident some time ago and herniated the majority of the discs in my spine. Suffice to say waking up with pain each and every day and not being able to do any type of exercise because of the pain caused me to eat, and eat and eat.
Eating, was the only thing that I can do that did not cause me pain. So I just got plain old fat. And I just accepted this as the way life was going to be after the age of 50. But my overeating and lack of any type of physical activity made me not only fat but I was diagnosed with diabetes at the beginning of the year. This made the picture of growing old with my wife and living to see my 3 children hopefully one day give me grand-children a very dark and gloomy picture. Diabetes increases your chances of heart attack, stroke, congestive heart failure and a multitude of other serious health conditions that can kill you.
This woke me up! I realized that I had to take control of my health. Just because I was over 50 and just because my spine is a wreck – I was not going to accept an early death.
So I set out and researched everything possible on diabetes and the proper nutrition eating plan in the hopes of curing my diabetes. Well it turns out that almost everything that is online and everything that is printed in the pamphlets and all the other materials for diabetes is wrong for me. I followed everything that they said to the finest detail and my diabetes was getting worse, my sugar levels were getting higher.
I have to say I was discouraged and almost lost hope but my Mother always told me that nothing worth having comes easy in life. So I did more research – I dug deep into the Biochemistry of the body and how different foods cause different reactions in our body’s chemistry and our hormones. And I found the answer!
As it turns out all I had to do was tweak the diet that we normally give to our patients who are weight loss resistant. Because of this diet I have lost 82 pounds and my blood sugar levels are normal.
For the record, I think my wife is correct and 165 pounds is a bit too skinny for me. I think I look better somewhere between 168 pounds and 171 lbs. So now I have to tweak my diet just a little. Quite honestly I do not mind fluctuating between 165 pounds and 171 pounds, when I weighed 247 pounds at the beginning of the year.
If you need help with your health, if you need help with losing weight I invite you to call us. It’s not easy to find the answers on your own. It’s not easy to do it alone. Call me and allow me to help you.
Our weight loss program has worked wonders for me. The great thing is that the weight loss medications really controlled my hunger and cravings. This made it easy for me to eat the right foods, especially in the beginning when I first started.
So if you need help with losing weight, if you need help improving your overall health – call us. Call 215-821-7336
Thank you for reading my story. I hope I did not bore you.
Have a wonderful day.
Dr. Kenny
- Published in Diet Doctors in Philadelphia, weight loss philadelphia
Best Exercises for Weight Loss by Medical Weight Loss Phila
In our Philadelphia medical weight loss program probably the number one question that we are asked all the time is “What is the best exercise or exercise programs for weight loss?”. And in this article I will answer that question.
Now the answer to what is the best exercise for weight loss is truly different for each and every person. So in our medical weight-loss program we will custom design an exercise program for you. We take into consideration your age, your weight, your level of physical fitness, the amount of time that you are able to exercise during the week and of course we ask you what type of activities that you enjoy doing. The most important thing about exercise is doing something that you like to do.
Some people do well with just walking every day while others like to do short burst of high-intensity training. And then we have people that are totally to the extreme. Some people are doing very aggressive and physically demanding exercise programs like crossfit, boot camps and just the other day we had a young lady who came in and she injured herself while doing some type of gymnastic exercise program where she was actually was exercising on gymnastic rings and doing maneuvers like the iron Cross and hanging upside down on the rings. Honestly, for most of us these extreme type of exercises are not necessary. Now, if you happen to really enjoy these high intensity physically demanding exercise programs that’s fine by me, you should be doing exercises that you like – just make sure that you do not injure yourself while doing them. But for pure weight-loss it really doesn’t take all that much physical intensity to burn fat and lose weight. If you are short on time we have weight-loss exercise programs that are perfect for you because they only take about 12 to 15 minutes of time and you will do them only two or three days a week.
Personally my favorite fat burning exercise is walking. But we are talking about walking keeping your heart rate at specific levels to make sure that you are burning calories and burning fat. Just walking your dog and stopping every 2 or 3 feet really does not count as a fat burning walking program. (When you come in for your weight loss consultation I will calculate what your target fat burning heart rates are for you.)
I also like walking because almost everyone can do it. Quite a few of our patients have bad backs, hips and knees and really cannot do any other type of exercise besides walking.
Because I choose walking as my personal favorite exercise I am going to list a few of the benefits that you get from walking. Surprisingly walking has a large number of benefits besides helping you lose weight and burn fat and here is a list of some of the documented benefits of walking:
- Prevents up to 91% of cases of obesity and type 2 diabetes
- Prevents up to 50% of all cases of heart disease
- Reduce stroke by 25-30%
- Prevents up to 50% of all stroke deaths
- Reduces congestive heart disease deaths by 63%
- Reduces hospital readmission for heart failure patients by 70%
- Normalizes blood pressure and reduces risk of developing high blood pressure
- Restores or maintains heart and blood vessel health
- Restores and maintains normal cholesterol triglyceride levels
- Reduces risk of breast cancer by up to 60%
- Reduces pancreatic cancer in overweight people by 50%
- Reduces lung cancer, even in smokers, by 72%
- Reduces melanoma, that’s right, skin cancer apparently from the sun, by over 72%
- Prevents up to 50% of colon cancer
- Reduces risk of developing, and improves outcomes of those with rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis
- Prevents osteoporosis and increases new bone formation
- Increases strength, flexibility and balance
- Decreases gallbladder removal by 20% and decreases gallstones
- Improves digestion and decreases indigestion
- Improves bowel function and elimination
- Increases immune system function
- Increases macrophage (anti-tumor) activity and antioxidant levels
- Decreases all causes of mortality by 67% in the general population
- Decreases all causes of mortality by 50% in 61-81 year olds
- Prevents up to 47% of cognitive impairment, prevents up to 62% of Alzheimer’s and 52% of dementia
- Improves physical function in older adults
- Decreases chances of ever being in a nursing home
- Decreases rate of aging
- Enhances learning by 12 times
- Increases dopamine and serotonin levels
- Decreases depression by 20%, including relapses
- Increased growth and healing hormones
- Decreases stress and body breakdown hormones
- Decreases body fat, obesity and weight gain
If you need help losing weight just call us now and schedule your Free Medical Weight Loss Consultation. Call us at 215-821-7336
Bikini Body Weight Loss Recipes by Medical Weight Loss Philadelphia
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It’s the end of July and so many people have worked with us in our medical weight loss program in Philadelphia and dropped pounds and inches and are enjoying their new bikini bodies on the beach. if you haven’t gotten your bikini body yet the following recipes when combines with our medical weight loss program can help you lose 2-5 lbs a week just like our patients to. These are some of my favorite recipes that have helped me lose over 70 pounds
All I have done to lose this weight is take the weight loss pills, follow the diet plan and eat these delicious recipes and walk a few days a week.
Here are 3 recipes for a few sweet treats to enjoy while losing weight.
Medical Weight Loss Lose 2-5 lbs a week
Ginger and Licorice Granola
- 1 egg white
- 4¼ oz chopped almonds
- ¾ oz peeled sesame seeds
- 1¾ oz lightly salted butter
- 2 oz dry, unsweetened coconut flakes
- 2–3 teaspoons licorice powder
- 2-3 teaspoons dried ginger
- A pinch of salt
Instructions:
Set oven to 300°F . then with the egg whites until they are fluffy and staring the dry ingredients in the chopped almonds. with our fingers be one to work the butter until it has a smooth texture and the dough is one clump. Next you’re going to spread granola in the pan in chunks and place it in the oven for 15 – 20 minutes. Next carefully turned every 3 minutes then that should be crispy without burning the clusters. It will take about 15 – 20 minutes. Then store this in the refrigerator and a tightly sealed container. That way it will stay nice and fresh and you can enjoy it whenever you want.
Raspberry Licorice Smoothie Supreme
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 to 1 cup of frozen raspberries
- 1/2 cup of Greek yogurt
- 1 – 2 pinches of the licorice powder
- 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon
Combine all the ingredients into a blender and enjoy.
Ginger Cinnamon and Raspberry Smoothie Delight
- 3 tablespoons of heavy cream
- 3 tablespoons of fresh or frozen raspberries or blueberries
- 3 tablespoons of Greek yogurt
- 1 teaspoon of freshly grated ginger
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon powder
Combine all of the ingredients into a blender and for a special treat you can top this with ginger, coconut chips and even a few more raspberries.
I hope that you enjoy these recipes as much as I and my family do and I wish that they help make you losing weight easier, more enjoyable and definitely a whole lot tastier.
If losing weight has not been easy for you and you need help in order to achieve your weight loss I invite you to call us for a totally free medical weight-loss consultation at 215-821-7336.
We have helped thousands of people lose weight and get the body they wanted. So let us help you. Call us now for your free medical weight loss consultation.
Call us at 215-821-7336 and less help make your weight loss goals become a reality. In our program we try to make losing weight easy, fun and definitely more delicious.
So if you are looking for help and wanting to work with a medically supervised weight loss program call us now at 215-821-7336 for your free consultation. From my personal experience the weight loss pills all but eliminated my appetite and cravings and I really appreciated the extra energy and boost in my metabolism from the vitamin B12 injection.
Bye Bye Belly- New Ways To Lose It by Medical Weight Loss Philadelphia
If you are looking to lose weight our Philadelphia medical weight loss program can help you achieve your weight loss goals. In fact using this program I have dropped from 247 lbs down to 173 lbs over the past months. On our weight loss program I wasn’t hungry and I was able to enjoy real food that was delicious, satisfying and tasty.
Here are a few of the tasty recipes that I was able to enjoy while losing weight.
Creamy Berries Ginger Cinnamon Sensation
- 1 cup of unsweetened almond milk
- 3 tablespoons of heavy cream
- 1.5 cups of water
- 7 – 8 raspberries
- 1 cup of spinach or kale
- 1 teaspoon of chia seeds
- 1 teaspoon of grated ginger
- 1 teaspoon of cinnamon
- combine all the ingredients into a blender and enjoy.
Chocolate Raspberry Dream Smoothie
- 1 cup of coconut cream or Greek yogurt
- 1 cup of water
- 2 tablespoons of heavy cream
- 5 – 10 drops of liquid chocolate stevia
- 4 tablespoons of raspberries
- 2 teaspoons of cocoa powder
- combine all of the ingredients into a blender and enjoy.
So there you have it some delicious recipes that will tantalize your taste buds, satisfy your hunger and cravings, fill your tummy and say bye bye to your belly.
I hope these recipes help make your losing weight easier, tastier and more enjoyable. If you need assistance with your weight loss please call us for your totally free medical weight loss consultation at 215-821-7336.
As of July 12, 2015 these free medical weight loss consultations are being offered for a limited time. Call 215-821-7336 and schedule your free consultation now.
The appetite suppressant pills helped decrease my cravings and my appetite and the vitamin B12 injection gave me a controlled boost of energy. The combination of the weight loss pills, vitamin B12 injections, sensible eating plans and a walking program helped make my losing weight a reality.
We even have weight loss plans designed especially for people who have diabetes, hypothyroidism and polycystic ovarian syndrome.
So if you’re looking to lose weight or just become more healthy call us and let us see how we can help you.
In our weight loss program there are no gimmicks, no tricks and no magic diet fads but rather a medically sound blue-print with step by step instruction on how to achieve your goals.
So call us now at 215-821-7336 for your free consultation.