Very low-calorie diet (VLCD) A VLCD is a diet supervised by a health care professional that typically uses commercially prepared formulas to promote rapid weight loss in some patients who are considered to be obese. People on a VLCD consume about 800 calories a day or less.
VLCD formulas are designed to provide all of the nutrients you need while helping you lose weight quickly.
W8MD VLCD diet meal replacement supplements
- Meal replacement weight loss bars
- Weight loss shakes
- W8MD weight loss shakes
- W8MD chicken noodle soup
- Style: “P 45 Product – Standard”
VLCD diet frequently asked questions
- How many W8MD shakes a day?
- How much water should I drink on a VLCD?
- How much weight should you lose on Optifast?
- How do VLCD diets work?
- Why drink more water on Cambridge Diet?
- Can drinking 2 Litres of water help you lose weight?
- How can I reduce my stomach fat?
- Can you survive on 800 calories a day?
- How long can you stay on a VLCD diet?
- What can I eat on a 500 calorie fast day?
- How many kg will I lose if I eat 500 calories a day?
- What can I eat that has zero calories?
- What meats should I eat to lose weight?
- Which grain is good for weight loss?
- How can I reduce my weight?
- Is it healthy to eat 1000 calories a day?
- Is 500 calories a day enough?
- Should you exercise on a VLCD?
- Why is it important to drink water while dieting?
- How much water should I drink while dieting?
- How much water should you drink on Slim Fast?
- What happens if you don’t eat enough calories?
- What are the 10 negative calorie foods?
- What are the symptoms of not eating enough?
- Does not eating make you fatter?
- How do you tell if you’re not eating enough?
Glossary
obesity – noun more than average fatness
overweight – adj. usually describes a large person who is fat but has a large frame to carry it; noun the property of excessive fatness
diet – noun the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods); the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal); a prescribed selection of foods; a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan); verb eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight; follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons
patient – adj. enduring without protest or complaint; enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance; noun a person who requires medical care; the semantic role of an entity that is not the agent but is directly involved in or affected by the happening denoted by the verb in the clause
weight – noun an artifact that is heavy; sports equipment used in calisthenic exercises and weightlifting; it is not attached to anything and is raised and lowered by use of the hands and arms; the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity; the relative importance granted to something; an oppressive feeling of heavy force; (statistics) a coefficient assigned to elements of a frequency distribution in order to represent their relative importance; a unit used to measure weight; a system of units used to express the weight of something; verb present with a bias; weight down with a load
risk – noun a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; the probability of being exposed to an infectious agent; the probability of becoming infected given that exposure to an infectious agent has occurred; a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; verb expose to a chance of loss or damage; take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
loss – noun the act of losing; the disadvantage that results from losing something; the experience of losing a loved one; the amount by which the cost of a business exceeds its revenue; something that is lost; gradual decline in amount or activity; euphemistic expressions for death; military personnel lost by death or capture
calorie – noun unit of heat defined as the quantity of heat required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water by 1 degree centigrade at atmospheric pressure; a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree at one atmosphere pressure; used by nutritionists to characterize the energy-producing potential in food
health – noun the general condition of body and mind; a healthy state of wellbeing free from disease
medicine – noun the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; (medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease; the branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques; punishment for one’s actions; verb treat medicinally, treat with medicine