Welcome to Ideal Protein! Message from Lisa Curtess, P.A. Michael Elliott, M.D. and his physician assistant, Lisa Curtess are excited to introduce the Ideal Protein weight loss program to you. This four-phase weight loss program is designed to help stabilize the pancreas and blood sugar levels while burning fat and maintaining muscle mass. This program assists people concerned with their weight, diabetes, cholesterol, high blood pressure and overall health. To get started on this medically supervised diet you first need to attend an Ideal Protein Workshop. Keep checking back for next workshop dates in October. If you are interested in attending, please call 260-4366. You only need to attend one workshop. Once you have decided this is the right program for you, maybe at the workshop, you will complete a health profile. The number of participants is limited. But don’t worry, if you don’t make the current round or if the time isn’t right for you, there will be future workshop and start dates. Lisa Curtess, P.A. and her team will contact you for your first appointment. They will help you determine your goal weight loss. If you have a primary care physician, he/she will be notified. You will not quit seeing your primary care physician for your health care. You will see Kim Walker for your weekly weigh-ins to help monitor your progress. Monthly progress checks will be scheduled with the physician assistant. During Phase One of the diet you replace two meals and one snack a day with Ideal Protein packets. Your noon meal will also include vegetables. Your evening meal will have a high protein meat and vegetables. You will be on Phase One of the diet until you lose 90% of your goal weight loss. You continue in Phase Two until you lose the remaining 10% of the weight. During this phase, you continue with the protein packets but add protein to your noon meal. Phase Three is the same for everyone and lasts two weeks. Phase Four is maintenance. Depending on your individual insurance policy, the Ideal Protein program doctor’s visits may or may not be covered. You will be required to purchase weekly protein food packets. In addition to the initial office visit, your starter week will be a little more expensive, about $175, due to getting a week’s worth of the product and a one month supply of the vitamins that you are required to take. It will then be approximately $90 per week while on Phase One. Phase Two will cost about $70 week and Phase Three about $40 per week. For those who are concerned with the cost of this diet, add up each item you consume a day and put a dollar amount with it. You will, more than likely, find it to be comparable with Ideal Protein which averages $14.00 per day. Don’t let the cost of the program keep you from attending a workshop to learn more about Ideal Protein. To find more information you can go to www.idealprotein.com. If you have any additional questions please contact us or call us at (405) 260-4366. Check out the before and after pictures of our spokesperson Debbie Hubbard, LPN. Debbie has been on the Ideal Protein Program since September and has lost over 50 pounds. We are so very proud of her! Read more about what other's have to say about Ideal Protein