Ideal Northwest

I am so grateful for Sherene, Rachael, Eleanor, and the rest of the staff at Ideal Northwest! With their kind support, I finally kicked the 15 pounds of vanity weight that crept up over the past few years. Most importantly, Ideal Protein has helped me reset my thinking about food for some fundamental lifestyle changes. I’m super glad I choose to invest in myself with Ideal Northwest!

Sherene was the best coach ever! Very encouraging and able to help me understand what was working for me and what I needed to improve on. She has an excellent understanding of the IP program and enabled me to feel in control of what was going on with my body. If you are looking for something to help you with weight loss, this is your place!

Such an amazing group of people to do this journey with! I started with IDEAL NORTHWEST February 16^th 2015. They were very informative about the program and made me feel so confident that this would be the last diet I would ever have to do! But the goal of losing weight wasn’t the only thing I achieved. I gained self confidence and control over my eating habits. I learned to love myself along the way. Sherene and her staff were there every step of the way celebrating my success and helped me more than any clinic would have in terms of making sure I had the support I needed. If it wasn’t for these fabulous ladies I wouldn’t be able to see that I too can lose the weight. Not only that but I now have the confidence to be an Ideal Protein coach myself! I’m officially down 101.8 pounds as of today! Couldn’t have done this without Sherene Kershner and her amazing team! I am forever grateful!

I would give more stars if I could for both the program, the manager, Sherene, and the receptionist, Rachel. I have actually done ³⁰⁄₁₀ before, (but had to drop out because I got ill). Ideal Protein is superior in so many ways. The people that work there are better trained, the food tastes better to me, I found that it agreed with my system much better than the other food. There are a lot of rules that they have at the other place, but not at Ideal Protein, such as you cannot use Splenda or water enhancers at ³⁰⁄₁₀. This was miserable for me since I HATE Stevia. Ideal Protein sends you videos to watch frequently that actually educate you on what is happening with your body and so much more. Sherene really sets Ideal Northwest apart from the crowd. She has been there and knows what you are going through. She is the friend who cares enough to be honest with you, and she is amazingly knowledgeable about food and weight loss. Make sure that you go to one of Sherene’s introductory seminars and I am sure you will be impressed, too.

For the record, I’m a 51 year old male who had gone from being a competitive cyclist in college to weighing 319 lbs and suffering from multiple medical issues including Type II diabetes. I had gained an average of nearly 6 lbs. a year living the high-​tech/​high-​stress lifestyle.
Over the past six months, working with the staff at Ideal Northwest to follow the Ideal Protein Weight Loss protocol, I’ve lost over 75 lbs. That’s after about eight years of yo-​yo dieting on other plans and never getting anywhere.
My wife, a physician, joined me on this diet — both to «tune up» her body and to support me in the process. She did not have nearly as much weight to lose as I did, but it was successful for her as well. She’s already hit her goal and «phased off.» It has been very helpful to be doing the diet together with a spouse.
After such a long history of unsuccessful dieting, I didn’t realize it could be this easy to succeed! I just hadn’t found the right diet program until Ideal Protein. Now that I understand the science behind the diet (which you learn in the very informative orientation), as well as the profound reduction of appetite that happens when you follow IP properly, I’ve gone from just wanting to drop 50 lbs, to wanting to wanting go all the way to a healthy BMI — which will mean losing a full 150 lbs by the time I’m done. As my best friend and now fellow IP dieter said to me, «If you’re going to run a marathon, why bail out after 20 miles?»
Friends ask me if it’s expensive. It’s actually saving us money to be on IP, and this is how:
1) We used to eat out a fair amount, but now that’s only once a month or so. We all (our 11 and 13-​year old sons included) prefer to eat the delicious, healthy food we’ve learned to cook at home instead. This saves us a small fortune ever month.
2) I’ve gone from seeing several health care providers a week before I started IP to only regular checkups with my internist. Since my A1C dropped from 8.8 to 5.8 after only 11 weeks (he was floored!) I’ll soon only need to see my doctor once a year instead of every three months for a diabetes check. All those co-​pays added up: MDs, surgeons, PTs, chiropractors, nutritionists, etc. And that doesn’t count lost productivity at work. For that matter, coming off of diabetes, blood pressure and various pain medications has also saved me a tidy sum of money.
3) We’ve compared IP to other similar diets like ³⁰⁄₁₀ and have found it to be the most economical, probably because the others advertise heavily and are located in pricey retail malls. IP is a relative bargain. It’s been easier than I expected to keep the food interesting, and the wonderfully empathetic coaches have gotten me quickly back on the rails every time I’ve veered a little off track.
4) I was facing the option of bariatric surgery, since nothing else seemed to be working. Three of my relatives had this, one with severe post-​surgical complications, and none of them reached a truly healthy condition. One regained all her lost weight after pregnancy. Surgery is expensive in many ways, and recent studies are showing that for many people it doesn’t even work long term. Without changing lifetime eating habits surgery will not work. So if you need to make these changes anyway, why bother with the surgery if you can get there on diet alone?
We have several physician friends who did this before we did. They and my wife all confirm the medical stability of the diet, provided you don’t neglect your weekly coach check-​ins. In the past we tried other diets like Medifast, South Beach and Atkins. There’s no comparison in the food taste and quality, nutritional balance and coaching that Ideal Northwest provides. The IP protocol, formulations and regimen have really cracked the code on doing this safely, and if there’s ever an issue that arises — such as a nutritional insufficiency — the coaches are trained to identify it and deal with it appropriately. NOTE: not all clinics have the same caliber of coaches, so be sure to check out two or three different ones before you select your coach. I can only attest to the exceptional expertise — and compassion — of the staff at IdealNorthwest.
Benefits so far:
1. CPAP pressure is already down 50%… looking forward to the day I don’t need it anymore.
2. Surprising reduction in pain — overall inflammation.
3. Everyone tells me my skin looks a lot better.
4. Reduced blood pressure medication three times until finally coming off of it for good — after twelve years of being on it.
5. Reduced diabetes medications similarly.
6. Reduced pain medications from multiple pain killers and anti-​inflammatories a day to just one anti-​inflammatory for arthritis pain in my shoulder, to ensure a good night’s sleep.
7. Dentist remarked that my periodontal health had improved markedly, completely unexpected bonus.
I highly recommend Ideal Northwest for the Ideal Protein program without reservation.

Wow. What can I say? Sherene is an amazing coach and this diet is incredibly easy to follow and has taught me basic principles about what I can and cannot eat in order to stay slim. I can’t believe I just wrote that! This is the first time I’ve been even close to slim since I was a kid (I’m 41 now)!
I have lost almost 60 lbs on this diet and Sherene is such a supportive and enthusiastic coach. I can’t recommend her highly enough!
She creates a sense of community with her clients on Facebook and is gentle when she needs to be but firm too… just as a coach should be. Even though she is in Bellevue and I live in Seattle, I made sure to go see her and not go to a Seattle clinic because Sherene is THE BEST!