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Welcome giant builders. I have a special guest here today. This is Dr Whirley-Diaz and she is actually my weight doctor.
I I've really not had a weight problem until I hit menopause as many of us. And then I couldn't get it off. And I actually remember when I thought I got to go see a doctor, I was getting out of the pool and walking up towards the house and I saw my reflection in the back window. I was like, how did you like this? And I think I called you the next day. Can you help me with this?
Well, it's very frequent that it's that one bad mirror shot or the one bad photo, I can't tell you how many times it is that. I look like that and that's what gets the idea to go do something about it.
And you're helping my mom. And I think episode five will be sharing my story about Covid, but my mother was in a Dire situation where she needed to lose a lot of weight and she's so far has lost about 60 lbs and she brags about you all the time. She she loves you dearly.
I love her too. And that is the other reason that we really have to look at this stuff about weight. You know, we talked about the appearance and all that kind of stuff, but the weight is associated with Alzheimer's, diabetes, high blood pressure. I mean almost every system is involved. And especially that central stuff which is what comes after menopause and later in life for both sexes.
Yeah, this episode is not about body shaming or anything like that. It's all about the healthy fitness of being.
Being a healthy weight range agreed.
So tell us how you work through your program.
All right. Well, first of all, since I am an M. D. We have to do labs and E. K. G. To make sure that we have a baseline. It doesn't mean if you have abnormal labs you can't start. It just means we want to track your cholesterol, your renal function, your kidney function, how your heart's working, your electrolytes everything to make sure that you either stay as great as you are or we fix some things. Which is really gratifying for me. Once we get all that data, then we have patients come in and we spend just a little session getting to know each other and I can do a body composition analysis. And what that is is just four points of contact, feet and your hands. And it's called bio impedance. Which means it just puts the teeniest, tiniest charged through your body and then everything absorbs things differently. And so we have a full print out of how much body fat you have, how much muscle you have and what your metabolic rate is. So we can follow that after that appointment, if you, decide to come and become part of the program then we do a very comprehensive appointment. A lot of information that we go over; sleeping habits, eating habits, drinking, other smoking habits, all of these kind of things trying to get, I need to get a picture of your life. Are you still working from home? Are back at work? Does your spouse work do not have a spouse kids? Is everybody getting along? You know, it's a very complicated situation. So that's why it's so long.
And then after I've got a good handle on all of that, we go through what the program is about. I do a moderately low carbohydrate with a moderately high protein. Now for those who like the numbers, that means Protein over 80 g a day, which is not a stress on your kidneys as long as you have normal kidney function and less than 50 g of carbohydrates. And that's because I mean, if you do Atkins or you know, super look, are you less than 20 g of carbohydrates a day? I can't sustain that. And so I don't want to ask anybody to do something that I can't do and I just can't...
