Abstract
Lifestyle management is the treatment of choice to combat obesity and its related complications. Diet counseling is the main stage of lifestyle management. Exercise, stress management, sleeping hygiene, emotional eating and food addiction counseling are needed in addition to a good diet program to ensure that the diet is maintainable. The diet that was prescribed to the patients should be inexpensive, fulfill the nutritional need, and maintainable. A study was designed to determine the effectiveness of Dr. Poon’s Metabolic Diet Program on weight reduction and weight maintenance. The result shows that when patients continue to attend the diet program, they were able to lose 10% of their initial weight on an average of 11 weeks and able to maintain the weight loss after two years. The average weight reduction after 2 years was 13.5%.
Highlights
In 2015, a pilot project was set up to assess the success rate of Dr Poon’s Metabolic Diet Program (DPMDP) [1]
One of the goals of this study is to find out the patients that lost 10% of their original weight on the DPMDP, how many were able to maintain the 10% weight reduction for the 2 years
Patients who did not return to the diet program for a follow up visit in the first month and patients with type 1 diabetes, end-stage renal failure and/or liver failure were excluded from this study
Summary
In 2015, a pilot project was set up to assess the success rate of Dr Poon’s Metabolic Diet Program (DPMDP) [1]. A total of 384 overweight and obese patients were included in the study and their progress was followed for a period of 18 months. Sixty two percent of the patients were able to lose 10% of their original weight. Among the patients who were able to lose 10% of their weight, 78% of them were able to lose additional weight, or maintained the 10% weight loss for up to 18 months, which was the length of that particular study. About 8% of the patients were able to achieve the normal BMI of 25. This is a follow up study of that pilot project. More patients were added to the study and were followed for a longer period of time
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