Weight loss Management
Professional care close to home
Our weight loss management team can help you take the weight off and keep it off by optimizing your body composition for weight maintenance. Our multidisciplinary team of obesity medicine specialists utilize an evidence-based approach to help patients improve their nutrition, increase physical activity, reduce stress, and improve sleep. Anti-obesity medications are also considered, depending on your current health. While most patients come to us looking for weight loss, other benefits you may achieve include:
- Decreased body fat, especially harmful central or “visceral” fat.
- Increased muscle mass and improve cardiovascular fitness.
- Reduced cholesterol and risk factors for heart disease
- Lowered blood pressure and reduce stroke risk.
- Slowed or stopped progression of diabetes.
- Improved sleep apnea
- Increased endurance in sports or everyday activities
- Improved self-esteem and confidence
Every patient at PHS receives a personalized program that aims to not only optimize weight loss but to improve overall health.