The QVita Health & Wellness Weight-Loss Program Really Works!
By GARY NAGER
So, even though the novel coronavirus
pandemic has stopped us from being able
to officially weigh in every week, in the
10 weeks since Jannah and I first started
visiting QVita Health & Wellness here in
Wesley Chapel, I’ve lost 38 lbs. and Jannah
(who had a lot less to lose) has lost 23.
By my new math, that’s more than 60
lbs. between us and the best news of all is
that it really wasn’t nearly as tough to do as
either of us expected.
QVita Family Nurse Practitioner
(FNP) and Board-Certified Advanced
Registered Nurse Practitioner (ARNP-BC)
Peggy Demetriou says that her weight-loss
program is one that she’s been on pretty
much her entire life, based on the Mediterranean
or Dash Diet program, which
she says has been shown to be among the
healthiest food regimens in the business.
“The Dash Diet is much healthier than
the Keto programs,” Peggy says. “It is still
a low-fat program, whereas Keto diets want
you to eat foods high in fats. Like Keto, our
diet starts you out with very few carbs but
allows you to slowly add good carbs, so it’s
the kind of program that more people find
easier to stay on longer-term.”
I wouldn’t argue with Peggy on which
programs are the healthiest — she is of
Greek descent and says that most Mediterranean
people eat less (and healthier) food
Publisher Gary Nager and his wife Jannah together have lost more than 60 lbs. in 10 weeks
on a medically-supervised weight-loss plan from QVita Health & Wellness off Bruce B. Downs
Blvd. before they stopped being able to weigh in every week because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
than the average American, but still get to
enjoy the foods they love. All I can tell you
for sure is that the program works.
Getting Started
Before you begin a weight-loss program
at QVita, Peggy and her staff will take some
blood and some measurements and discuss
your medical history to set your baseline.
Since Peggy is a medical professional, you
don’t have to go to your family doctor
before starting on a QVita program, but she
certainly has no problem with it if you want
to visit your doctor first.
When your blood tests come back and
Peggy says it’s OK to proceed, the QVita staff
will give you a shot of Vitamin B6 and B12,
as well as a QVita-exclusive, natural appetite
supressing supplement (that is basically
caffeine and some nutrients), a food journal
and a copy of the first two weeks of the diet.
You start out basically eating very little
— between 1,000 to no more than 1,500
calories per day — and little more than lean
meats (included limited amounts of eggs),
low-fat cheese and unlimited veggies. You
can have things like artificially sweetened
Jello, and maybe some nuts as snacks (I did
drink a lot of coffee after meals, but I had to
measure the amount of creamer I used), but
I warned Peggy that I might blow the whole
diet from the beginning without any bread,
pasta or pizza for two weeks.
But somehow — maybe because I was
so overweight to begin with, or because
of the supplement, or because it started to
work immediately without us dying of starvation
— we were able to survive those first
two weeks without killing each other.
Peggy says another reason it worked so
well for us from the start is because we were
in it together. We started eating as many
meals together as possible and whenever we
couldn’t, we tried to basically eat the same
things. Jannah did a better job of keeping an
exact journal of what we ate but considering
that our numbers kept going down every
week and we kept telling the QVita staffers
(photo on next page; Peggy is third from the
left) about the different recipes we kept coming
up with, they said we didn’t have to keep
journaling unless we hit a plateau we couldn’t
beat or started gaining weight. Trust me, that
never happened to us.
What did happen is that we basically
re-set our bodies. After those first two weeks,
the first piece of fruit I had as we started
adding good carbs tasted as good to me in
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