A medically supervised program changes lives (and the “food is great”).
Dr. Jeremy Gordon, Barbara Anderson (center) and her Ideal Protein coach Jennifer Gordon.
Music is Barbara Anderson’s life. For years, she taught music at the elementary school and university levels, and she still sings in her church choir. For a while, she also directed that choir. She even sang professionally for a time.
“I was a soloist with The Phoenix Symphony,” the Arizona native reveals. “I was also a soloist with the Huntsville Symphony in Alabama, in connection with the Methodist church there, and a soloist in Wilmington, North Carolina.”
Barbara, 73, prefers to sing “God’s music.” For years, she did so despite suffering from severe neck and back pain, the result of damage to three discs in her back and neck. When that pain became severe, she sought relief from Jeremy M. Gordon, DC, at Deland Chiropractic & Spinal Decompression.
“I used to get regular chiropractic adjustments from Dr. Gordon, but then I went a long while without any care at all,” Barbara explains. “That’s something I probably should not have done because I wound up in a great deal of pain again.
“I was in so much pain that I didn’t feel like doing anything in terms of physical activity. I used to jog, but my pain made it uncomfortable to do anything like that, so I got away from jogging and exercising, and that wasn’t good for me either.
“I’m amazed that you can lose weight while eating some of the food that’s allowed.” – Barbara
“Because I wasn’t exercising as much as I used to, I started to put on weight. And the more weight I put on, the more uncomfortable I felt. I was stuck in a bad cycle, so I went back to Dr. Gordon to see if he could help.”
Dr. Gordon’s renewed treatment of Barbara was centered around a regimen of standard chiropractic adjustments. But there was another suggestion Barbara agreed to try.
“He wanted me to get on the Ideal Protein® program,” Barbara reveals. “He told me that the 
chiropractic adjustments would help but that it would also help me to lose some weight. So, I decided to give Ideal Protein a try.
Ideal Protein is a customized, easy-to-follow four-phase, ketogenic lifestyle program that helps participants boost energy levels, foster better appetite control, improve blood sugar and cholesterol levels, and reduce blood pressure.
“Some plans merely restrict caloric intake, so the body burns fat as well as muscle,”
Dr. Gordon explains. “By limiting the sugars and fats you take in and providing protein that is easily absorbed, Ideal Protein burns stored fat while preserving lean muscle.”
One of the biggest advantages of Ideal Protein is that it helps participants develop and maintain good eating habits that become second nature. The typical result is a loss of about 12 to 15 pounds per month, according to Dr. Gordon.
At DeLand Chiropractic & Spinal Decompression, those results are achieved with the help of the clinic’s Ideal Protein coach, Jennifer Gordon, who has helped Barbara lose more than 60 pounds since she began the program early in 2020.
“I love the Ideal Protein program,” Barbara enthuses. “I love the food. It’s the only weight-loss program I’ve been on that lets you have a treat. I’m amazed that you can lose weight while eating some of the food that’s allowed.”
Barbara is currently in the program’s weight-maintenance phase.
Barbara has lost more than 60 pounds on the Ideal Protein program.
“I’m not having a hard time doing that because the food is great. I could eat it for the rest of my life and be very content,” she says.
“The other thing this program has done is it’s made me feel better. I’ve lost 60 pounds, but the difference in how I look is nothing compared to the difference in how I feel. I’m amazed at how comfortable I feel, and that was my ultimate goal.
“I tried the Ideal Protein program because I was hoping it would help relieve me of some of my back pain and help me to feel better. Dr. Gordon said it would, and he was right, because for someone 73 years old, I feel great.”
