Nutrition & Weight Loss

Our Program

In our practice we treat obesity as a disease. It is a chronic disease. So our providers are not weight loss practitioners but Obesity Medicine Clinicians. It is a journey we will take together. To that measure, we offer a 6 month weight management program that includes extensive education and counseling around nutrition and a personalize fitness program. In addition, there is strong emphasis on psychotherapy and the factors that contribute to food addiction. Lastly, we will evaluate whether adding medication will help towards your goals. 

Nutrition & Culinary Medicine

We will provide individualized nutritional therapy to help you reach your weight loss goals. Our obesity management practice puts strong emphasis on food as the most important tool to lose weight and maintain the weight loss. You will learn about carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, and their acceptable distribution in your diet. We will focus on nutrient, dense food and not calories. You will learn about saturated fats, polyunsaturated fats, trans-fat, and cholesterol. Our nutritional program will focus on reducing processed and ultra processed foods with a preference for nutrient dense, fresh foods, high in fiber and low in added sugars. We will also teach you about the micro nutrients needed for a healthy diet, including vitamin supplementation and foods rich in the needed micro nutrients. We will focus on low carbohydrate diet, high in polyunsaturated fats and omega-3- fatty acids. We will prescribe meal replacements when appropriate. We will incorporate intermittent fasting to a nutritional program for appropriate patients to achieve and maintain weight loss.

Psychological Support

So many psychological factors go into what we eat, when we eat, and how much we eat. For example, for some, food is a surrogate for love and affection for oneself and others. Some of us use food to celebrate happiness and soothe sadness. Some of us use cooking and eating to avoid challenging activities or situations. And for others, food is used as a tool to avert boredom, fatigue, or stress. For some of us, our environment plays a key role in the timing of food and what we eat. Most of us are guilty of eating excessively due to perceived obligations in family gatherings and business meetings. The point is our psychology plays an important role in our food consumption and thus in our ability to manage our weight effectively.

The goal of adding behavioral therapy to your weight-loss program is to enhance adherence to a healthy eating pattern and to incorporate and maintain recommended physical activity goals. We will use a collaborative approach that is patient centered with a goal of invoking your own motivations and resources for change. The ultimate goal is to empower you to own the solution. We will help identify any eating disorders and use cognitive behavioral therapy to work through them, and ultimately help you reach your weight loss goal. 

We recognize that stress management is very important for weight management. We will help you with stress management tools, help you enlist social support where needed, help you work through stimulus control, self-monitoring, relapse prevention, training, and the reward cycle of food. We will help you identify thought processes and actions that are not in line with the goals you have set for your weight loss program.