What is the Comprehensive Dietary Package?
The Comprehensive Dietary Package is my core all-inclusive package for those who want to eat healthier, lose weight, and/or gain muscle mass, and manage chronic diseases (e.g., type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, overweight/obesity).
What Services Are Included in the Comprehensive Dietary Package?
The Comprehensive Dietary Package follows a 4-stage Integrated Nutritional Framework.
2. DESIGN: Individual Meal Plan
3. TEACH: In-depth Nutrition Education Session
4. SUPPORT: Professional Support for sustainable results
Key Features of the Comprehensive Dietary Package
Is the Comprehensive Dietary Package Right For Me?
The Comprehensive Dietary Package is designed to help you transform your goals into a sustainable lifestyle. If you want to eat better and achieve and maintain a healthy body weight, the Comprehensive Dietary Package is the place to begin.
This package also provides specialized support for management of chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes (not requiring insulin), high blood pressure (hypertension), high cholesterol, insulin resistance, hyperinsulinemia, and fatty liver disease, and can also support those with IgE-mediated food allergies.
Meal Plans can be designed from an anti-inflammatory perspective at no additional cost.
What is the Structure of Services in the Comprehensive Dietary Package?
The Comprehensive Dietary Package is broken down into four separate sequential services that (1) assess your needs, (2) design your individual Meal Plan, (3) teach it to you and provide you with detailed teaching handouts, and (4) support for sustainable results.
1. In-depth Clinical Assessment:
ASSESS: The first service in the package is an in-depth clinical assessment, which is broken into two parts:
a. The first part of the assessment includes a review of your personal and family medical history and recent laboratory results to help evaluate your nutritional status and develop individualized recommendations. I’ll also clarify your current medications and nutritional supplements and obtain your waist and hip measurements (10 minutes).
b. The second part of the assessment is a comprehensive dietary and lifestyle review, where I will collect detailed information, including what you like to eat and when, food likes and dislikes, religious, cultural, or ethical dietary restrictions, and other factors that impact your health and weight, such as sleep habits and activity level (50 minutes).
2. Design of Individual Meal Plan:
DESIGN: The second service in the package is the design of your individual Meal Plan, tailored to help you accomplish the goals that you set. Your Meal Plan will take into consideration the information collected during the assessment, medications you may be taking, risk factors you may have, lab test results, food preferences, and any food restrictions.
Your Meal Plan is not a rigid menu. It’s a personalized framework to guide your food choices while allowing flexibility and variety.
The turnaround time for completing your Meal Plan will be approximately 2 weeks from the time I receive any requested or missing information, such as any nutrition labels or pending lab test results.
3. Nutrition Education Session:
TEACH: The third service in the package is the Nutrition Education Session, which begins with you receiving your Meal Plan and the detailed, multi-page Meal Plan Summary handout, which will serve as a reference as you implement your Meal Plan.
- Visit begins with a review of risk factors, weight, waist circumference, or out-of-range lab test results
- Step-by-step teaching of your Meal Plan, including food categories, serving sizes, number of portions, and how to make substitutions within each food category at each meal.
- Specific dietary and lifestyle recommendations to help you achieve the goals that you set.
4. Follow-up Visits:
SUPPORT: The fourth service in the package is follow-up, which can be taken as either of these two options:
- Two half-hour follow-up appointments: each visit is to review weight, waist, and hip circumference, and answer any questions you have about implementing your Meal Plan.
- A combined one-hour follow-up appointment: the first half hour is for reviewing weight, waist, and hip circumference, and how you have been eating relative to the Meal Plan that was designed for you, and the second half hour is used to adjust your Meal Plan based on requested changes or revised measurements.
How Much Does the Comprehensive Dietary Package Cost?
The cost of the Comprehensive Dietary Package is $510 (GST exempt), and to make submitting to extended benefits easy, receipts are broken down into the four individual services:
- Comprehensive Clinical Assessment ($150)
- Individual Meal Plan design ($120)
- In-depth Nutritional Education Session ($120)
- Follow-up visits ($120)
Add-on nutrition sessions are available to help you manage acid reflux (GERD), gout, hiatal hernia, constipation and hemorrhoids, kidney stones (oxalate or uric acid), optimize iron intake from food or nutrients for thyroid health, or learn an Anti-Inflammatory Protocol (AIP). When bundled with a routine health package, these focused education sessions are available at a lower rate than when taken as stand-alone Clinical Nutrition Appointments. Learn about available add-on sessions →
Questions About Booking, Billing, or Extended Benefits?
On our FAQ page, you’ll find answers to questions about booking, billing and payment options, appointment confirmations, extended benefits claims, and much more. If you have any questions that are not answered there, you can contact us through the form at the bottom of the FAQ page.
How to Get Started?
What Happens Once I’m Booked?
Once your assessment visit is booked, your care will follow the four-stage Integrated Nutritional Framework outlined above.
ASSESS: Before your appointment, we’ll send you a link to the Personal and Family Medical History Form. Please return it at least 24 hours before your appointment so I’ll have time to review your information and prepare for our session. If you prefer, I can email you a password-protected form to complete manually. We’ll then meet for your comprehensive dietary and lifestyle assessment.
DESIGN: Following your assessment, I’ll develop your individualized Meal Plan and supporting resources.
TEACH: We’ll then meet for your Nutrition Education Session, where we’ll review your Meal Plan together and discuss how to put it into practice.
SUPPORT: You’ll be able to schedule your follow-up appointments to monitor your progress, answer questions, and make adjustments as needed.
How Do I Get Started with the Comprehensive Dietary Package?
The first step is to visit our Book an Appointment tab by clicking the button below. There you will have the choice to either complete the Intake and Service Option Form online and send it to us directly from our web page, or to download the form, complete it on your computer, and email it back to us.
Want to dive into the research?
Before we meet, you might find these articles of interest.
“I believe there is no one-size-fits-all approach to improving health. I tailor every Meal Plan to your specific needs—including cultural practices and time limitations—enabling you to improve your health without the need to prepare separate meals.”
Questions and Answers
Q: I want to lose weight, but I also have high cholesterol, and my blood sugar is high. Will I be able to address both at the same time, taking this package?
A: Yes! The Comprehensive Dietary Package will not only help you with weight loss, but also other routine conditions, such as high cholesterol and high blood sugar. If you were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, as long as you are not taking insulin or insulin analogues, I can help.
Q: I was recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and heard that it’s possible to put the symptoms into remission. Is this true, and can you help me try to do this?
A: Yes, it’s true (as one of the articles above outlines), and I have 6 years of experience helping people successfully put their symptoms of type 2 diabetes into remission. I’d be glad to help you.
Q: My doctor wants me to go on medication to lower my cholesterol, but I said I want to try a diet first. Can you help me?
A: Absolutely! I can design a Meal Plan for you that will help lower your LDL and triglycerides, and also raise your HDL.
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