Kirsten Frederiksen
Medical Director, Bariatric Center at Mayo Clinic Florida; Obesity Medicine specialist with 20+ years of clinical experience and Co-Director of Clinical Education for the Obesity Medicine Association
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Jun 22, 2026
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What are some of the dietary strategies that you find that can be helpful to mitigate weight regain?
Kirsten FrederiksenGUEST
Yeah, yeah, we cannot forget that part of treatment is also the dietary strategy.
Kirsten FrederiksenGUEST
And I think that you know, we talk a lot about protein and that there's muscle loss with rapid weight loss, and we need to worry about that.
Kirsten FrederiksenGUEST
But there is a lot of evidence to support that increasing protein intake can be helpful for satiety and increasing fiber intake is also really important.
Kirsten FrederiksenGUEST
And so one goal would be, I usually go about a gram, a gram per kilo per day.