Kidney Diet Help | Stop Losing Weight on Low Protein Diet

Today we’re talking about kidney diet help, low protein diets and one of the problems that come along with it is losing too much weight, especially if you don’t want to lose weight. We’re going to talk about how not to lose as much weight.

So you want to decide to go on a low protein diet for kidney disease, something you want to try no matter what diet you try is to do a 30, 60, 90 day blood work before and after to see what the results are. Now it’s 2022, there’s no more debate, low protein diets are recommended as one of the most therapeutic diets for Kidney Health by every major kidney organization in America. The research is overwhelming. You may not be a candidate, not everybody with kidney issues is, but it’s something that if you’re a candidate I definitely would recommend trying.

A lot of people go on a low protein diet and they lose too much weight because they’re getting rid of a lot of foods that have calories and depending how drastic your diet changes you may not want all that weight loss. So what do you do? Something you can always do is I tell a lot of people is you want to add in two to three tablespoons per day of extra virgin olive oil to your diet, preferably adding it to your foods after you cook meaning you drizzle it on some vegetables at the end of if you’re making any grains you can always add in the extra-virgin olive oil to it.

You can use also no salt butter if there isn’t a cholesterol issue you can try a little no salt butter, one to two tablespoons. That’ll also add extra calories. I really prefer the extra virgin olive oil because it does so many good things for your body. The research is overwhelming and we know it does so many good things for your kidney. It can help your cholesterol, help your mortality rate, it doesn’t raise the blood sugar which is a great thing. It has a lot of antioxidants, polyphenols so many good things in there.

By adding in two to three tablespoons you’re going to get 240 to around 360 375 calories per day which is a good amount. At the end of the week that’s going to be about 2500 calories, so you add quite a bit of calories into your diet. A very healthy form with no protein. It doesn’t affect the blood sugar, and it can help your health overall. So something you can do, if you’re losing too much weight you’re worried about that. Also if you’re going to go on a low protein diet it does depend low you go, you may want to take essential amino acids or keto analogs and essential amino acids. If you want to learn about those look at our other videos, but if you’re losing too much weight two to three tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil per day.