How to change your log in email.

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Dr. Cheng

We use your email as your username (to avoid using sensitive information such as SSN).  If you need to change your login email, please log into your account at  www.DrWLC.com and then click on Change Login/Password (indicated by the arrow below). 

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Thomas lost 93 lbs in 5.5 months

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Dr. Cheng

Thomas A. is 6.0 ft tall gentleman suffering from obesity (starting weight: 321 lbs) as well as severe back pain requiring waling canes.  He came in mid Oct 2010.  By late May 2011, his weight is down to 228 lbs and has since long parted with his back pain and his walking canes.  All he needs know is to follow our easy-to-follow Weight Maintenance Instructions.

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I am on diet, but why am I not losing weight?

Posted on May 28, 2011 by Dr. Cheng

If you are not losing 4-5 lbs a week while on our Holistic hCG Diet, follow this 4-step trouble-shooting process.

  1. Do you feel hungry in the evening hours?  If yes, click here.  When you are hungry, esp. in the evening hours, you tend to eat more and your metabolism tends to be slower.
  2. Do you feel tired and sluggish during the day?  If so, your metabolism may be too slow, or you need medication adjustment or you may not have followed the diet correctly (e.g., not drinking enough water or not take our mineral vitamin tablet).
    1. Hormone imbalance can be a major factor why we are not losing enough weight.  The balance of hormones from the thyroid, adrenal glands, ovaries or testes and the pineal gland plays an important role in  our health and our body weight.  We can test these hormones to trouble shoot what may be your problem.  We often start by doing a screening test that covers the above systems.  If necessary, we then expand to test more comprehensively.  Call 803.233.3420 or email Dr. Cheng at DrCheng@DrWLC.com to request the screening test.
  3. Do you have any side effects or difficulties while on our Holistic hCG Diet?  Insomnia, constipation, upset stomach, etc are some of the possible side effects.  If you have any of these, we may need to adjust your medications.
  4. You may not have followed our dietary instructions correctly.  If you do not follow our dietary instructions, you may get either too many bad calories (carb and fat), not enough protein, not enough water, not enough dietary fiber, etc, resulting in side effects or difficulties.

If your answers to questions 1, 2 and 3 are NO, then most likely the problem is your diet.  Please following the following procedure:

  • Weigh in online to record your current weight (try to weigh at the same time of day, with similar amount of clothing and on the same scale).
  • But 3 boxes of protein supplements (bars, soups etc), from our offices (or online).  Eat one protein bar for breakfast, lunch and supper.  Drink plenty of water, eat 2 or more servings of green veggies.  (Read our dietary instructions again for more details).
  • Do not eat any of your own foods (no chicken, fish or pork, rice, bread, or any snacks).
  • Weigh in again online every other day.
  • At the end of the week, log in online to see your own weight chart, to see how much weight you have lost.
    • If you have lost more than 4-5 lbs, then your problem is your diet, i.e., you didn’t follow our dietary instructions.  Solutions: Read the instructions and follow them.
    • If you lost less than 2-3 lbs, then your metabolism is too slow.  Schedule an appointment to come in to see me.

If you still can’t figure out what may be your problems, please call 803.233.3420 to schedule an appointment to talk to me.

Dr. Cheng

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Water Pill (Herbal Diuretic and Maxzide)

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Dr. Cheng

Why do we use a water pill on the diet?

Water pills are used to:

  • Enhance your metabolism.  Water to your body is like oil to your car.  If you don’t have enough oil in your car, or if you have dirty oil in a car, you will have lower gas mileage (=lower metabolism to our body); engine damage.  The engines of our body are in every cell.  For these molecular “engines” to function properly, we need sufficient and clean “oil” that is water.  While we change our car oil every once a while.  When was the last time you took your body to a “mechanic” for an “oil” change?  The only ways for us to change our body’s water are to drink plenty of clean water (to push water in) and use diuretics (they help you to urinate more) to help you to drain your body’s water.  So if you drink plenty of clean water and urinate more often, you are changing your body’s dirty “oil” and you are improving.
  • We use either an Herbal Diuretic or a Maxzide to achieve the above goals.  A H. Diuretic is milder, whereas Maxzide is a bit stronger.  We usually start a patient on herbal diuretic first.  If the patient doesn’t respond well (increased urination frequency without causing discomfort or disturbance to lifestyle), then we may switch over to Maxzide.
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Trazadone and Fluoxetine

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Dr. Cheng

Both Trazadone and Fluoxetine are SSRIs and they are part of our weight loss protocols.  SSRIs are known as anti-depressants.  However, when used for anti-depression, the dosage is usually much higher.  SSRIs are often used for other clinical conditions, other than depression.  One such example is the use of Prozac to help reduce women’s PMS symptoms.

The desired effects of Trazadone or Fluoxetine in our diet plans include:

  • Helps to reduce your stress level;
  • Helps to reduce your cravings of foods.

Potential side effects.  Although at the very low doses that we use, these side effects are infrequent and mild.  These mild side effects will go away after discontinued use.

  • Sleepiness, tiredness, altered sex drive (increase or decrease).
    • Trazadone is also used as an sleep aid.  Insomnia is one of the common side effects when one takes appetite suppressants.  The use of Trazadone helps to alleviate the insomnia problem.  Trazaone also tends to increase the sex drive, rather than decrease it.  Some people may feel a bit groggy in the first few days after being on Trazadone, but usually this improves.  If no improvement is seen in a week or so, we may need to decrease the dosage.
    • Fluoxetine doesn’t cause morning grogginess as much, but it tends to decrease sex drive, esp. in men.  It is a great medication to reduce stress level.

Please report to us any undesired effects.  We may need to adjust the dosing and timing of these meds to achieve the best results.  Please fill out an online follow up report or email us.  Thanks.

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How to choose foods for weight loss and for weight maintenance.

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Dr. Cheng

For weight loss, follow these instructions.

  1. The 1:10 Rule:  Anything you put in your mouth should meet this 1:10 Rule.  The 1:10 Rule is: for every gram of protein, the total calorie amount should be 10 or less. Most of food packages come with nutrition label.  For example, in a grocery store you are looking at a yogurt (I know Publix sells Chobani yogurt).  The label reads the total protein is 14 grams and the total calorie is 140 calories per serving.  Serving size one container.  The protein: calorie is 14 : 140 = 1:10.  So this is a good food to eat.
  2. The 500 Rule:  the total daily calorie allowed is 500.
  3. The 5 lb/wk Rule: You should expect to lose ~5 pounds per week.  If you didn’t lose 5 lbs or more, you didn’t follow Rules 1 and 2.  You need to ask yourself why you couldn’t follow
  4. But it may also be that you are hungry or you are craving or you have side effects.  If you didn’t follow the Rules 1 and 2, then stick to these rules

For weight maintenance, follow these intructions.

  • The 1:15 Rule: Read the nutrition label on the package of a food you want to buy.  For every 15 calories, you should see at least 1 gram of protein.  For example: if a food has 5 grams of protein and 150 calories per serving, then the ratio is 5:150 or 0.5:15.  It has less than 1 gram of protein per 15 calories.  It is not an ideal food for weight maintenance.
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How to order a refill?

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Dr. Cheng
  1. To order a refill of your medications, log into your account at www.DrWLC.com.  Enter your email as the username and your password (Circled area in the figure below).
  2. Once logged in, click on Refill Prescriptions (indicated by the arrow in the following figure).
  3. Filling in your blood pressure, weight etc in the blanks (as shown in the figure).  You MUST answer all the questions.  You may measure your blood pressure in a pharmacy such as CVS or Walgreens.
  4. Answer more questions as shown in the following figure:
  5. Once all questions are answered, click Submit button to submit your answers.
  6. The next page will ask you to confirm your address and pharmacy information.  This is VERY important.  Otherwise, your medications may be called into or shipped to the wrong place.  If all the information here is correct, click Confirm.  Otherwise click Modify to update your information.
  7. Finally, a list of the medications that you have used before before show up for you to choose to refill.  If you don’t see the medications you need on the list, or if you have a condition that you need other medications or products, please describe it in the Comment section.  Click Submit button.  
  8. Your request is then submitted to us for Dr. Cheng’s review.  Your request is usually reviewed, approved or modified within 24 hours.  Once it’s approved, you will receive an email notification asking you to log in to complete the request.  After your receive an email from us saying your refill request status has been changed (meaning it is approved or modified), you will need to log in to finalize the request.  You will see, in the center on your homepage, the following.  If you agree with all the products listed, then click Purchase Refills Now.  If you don’t want any of items listed, click Decline next to that item to remove the item from the list.  Then click on the Purchase Refills Now.
  9. A page will show up to ask you to confirm your email (see figure).  The email address shown MUST be the same email that you use to log in.  If you need to change your email address, you should change it here.  Later on during the check out process, when you submit your credit information, it will ask for your email again.  This email has to be the same as your log in email.  Otherwise your order won’t go through our system smoothly.  Please Do not change your email or address in the final step (the payment page).  If you need to make any changes to your address or email, please log in again to make the changes on your homepage.  Click Submit button to proceed to the final payment page.
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Nausea

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Dr. Cheng

Nausea in the morning after taking medicines may be due to T-Gram mineral/vitamin tablets (the big dark brown tablets) or Maxzide or other medicines.

Solution: Take T-Gram tablets at supper time with food.

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How Gloria lost 176 lbs in 13 months.

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Dr. Cheng

Gloria weighed 310 lbs when she came to see me in on 4/29/09. By 6/3/10, she was down to 134 lbs, a 176 lbs weight loss in 13 months plus 4 days!  Gloria didn’t find it very hard to stay on the diet.  The important thing for her to do now is to keep it off.  She should follow our maintenance instructions (see Weight Maintenance on this blog).

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Jason H. lost 22 lbs in 1 week!

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Dr. Cheng

Jason came in today after 1 week on the holistic hCG plan.  He lost 22 lbs in a week! He feels good and doesn’t have any significant side effects.  He does feel the pulse rate to be a bit faster and slightly nauseous.  After going over the way he takes the medicines, we found out that he was taking the T-Gram multi vitamin mineral tablets (the big dark brown tablets) in the morning.  T-Gram tablets are meant to be taken at dinner time with food.  It may cause stomach irritation.

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