Your Health

Medical Help For Winning The Weight Battle

Posted 2/18/2011

Your doctor can help you manage weight loss along with other health conditions.

(NAPSI) - Chances are, the last time you visited a doctor, you were either sick or getting your annual checkup. Many don’t realize that they can also turn to a doctor for weight-loss advice.

While any responsible weight-loss program suggests you consult a physician before beginning, very few people actually heed that advice. The benefits of a personalized, nonsurgical weight-loss program are a good reason to consider it again.

“People who are overweight or obese are dealing with a chronic and potentially debilitating disease,” explains Dr. Michael Kaplan, a board-certified physician and founder of The Center for Medical Weight Loss. “People struggling with excess weight commonly battle related medical conditions, such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Only a doctor can manage a patient’s weight loss in tandem with his or her other health conditions.”

Here’s what you can expect:

• Accountability—By planning weekly visits to track progress, you become accountable to a doctor, who helps to manage expectations and further explain the effect of weight loss on your health. Being accountable, and taking personal responsibility for your weight loss, has been shown to be a key to success.

• Health Assessments—Your doctor will assess your medical background and provide monthly updates, often collaborating with other doctors. A medical professional will also monitor your related health conditions and regulate medications as necessary. For example, consider a menopausal woman who is unable to lose weight because she is unaware that she has polycystic ovarian syndrome (a condition that affects as many as 10 percent of American women). Her physician can communicate with her other doctors and then prescribe therapies to normalize levels, which will enable her to start dropping pounds.

• Realistic and Accurate Expectations—Using your body composition and other measurements, your doctor can accurately predict the amount of weight you will lose over time. Your doctor will be able to tell you where the weight’s coming from and how much is from fat, water or muscle, and adjust your program accordingly.

• One-on-One Coaching—With each visit, you’ll be individually counseled by a physician on how you can approach your daily life to achieve your objective and keep the weight off.

“Most of our patients have tried other weight-loss programs only to end up unsatisfied or frustrated by their lack of success. With medically supervised nonsurgical weight loss, they tend to feel more confident that they can actually reach their goal and maintain a healthy weight,” added Dr. Kaplan.

Learn More

To learn more about this approach to weight loss, visit www.centerformedicalweightloss.com.

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