Very Low Calorie Diets.

So, a very low calorie diet is a prescriptive diet or less than 800 calories per day. The way we generally recommend this is through soups and shakes because they are formulated to make sure that they are nutritionally complete. You can get the soups and shakes, you can discuss with your healthcare professional where is the best possible way to purchase these. They're not free of charge at the moment, but they are nutritionally complete, if you're given the advice of where to get these from. If you consume the very low calorie diet, this will be generally in the form of two soups and two shakes. So you would have a soup for breakfast or a shake for breakfast, and then you would have another soup or shake for lunch, and then you would have a soup and shake for dinner. They're generally about three or four different flavors of the soups and shakes, and you can often get a sample pack to see which flavor you like and then you can order in bulk. The idea is that you follow the very low calorie diet for 12 weeks. The evidence is that if you follow it for 12 weeks of just soups and shakes you can achieve anything between 5 to 15 kilograms. Now often people get really bored of having soups and shakes for 12 weeks but what we have seen is that in some of the studies that you can eat as many vegetables so things like leafy vegetables, things like you know peas, mushrooms, aubergine. So we give you lots of ideas of how you can incorporate different vegetables in the very low calorie diet so that one you can sit down with the family and have a meal and two you can continue to chew on food because just drinking liquids for 12 weeks can be very difficult and some of the very low calorie diets will have some bars in there as well, some cereal bars, but this will depend on which program you choose to start.