Weight Management

Medical Weight Management vs. Other Weight Loss Programs

Medical weight management may have similar goals on the surface as your average weight loss program, but when examined under a microscope the two are entirely different systems.

Think about the average weight management program you might find online or through a local gym. The seller of the course would probably have some solid experience with weight loss, perhaps with themselves and friends, family, or clients. They might even design a complex program that provides options for people with different needs. But can that really be an alternative of medically supervised, analytical, and individualized weight loss programs?

The short answer is no, it cannot. Medical weight management tends to be more effective than other weight loss programs in both the short term and long term. Let’s examine some of the reasons why this might be the case, and take a closer look at some key differences.

Reasons For Medical Weight Management vs. Other Weight Loss Programs

The average diet and exercise program is usually geared towards either general goals such as looking good, feeling good, and losing weight, or more specific goals such as fitting into a certain suit or dress size. It can actually help a program’s sales if it is niche-specific, such as weight loss for a specific sport, beach body fat loss, or to improve a relationship.

Medical weight management takes a much more holistic and thorough approach. While goals for things like fat loss, body contouring, and improved fitness are set and met, the underlying purpose of medical weight management is to promote longevity, avoid or reverse disease, and improve overall quality of living.

In other words, whether you have a specific fat loss goal that you want to achieve on a schedule or you’re worried about your health due to obesity, medical weight management is a better option than even the most comprehensive fad diet.

Medical Weight Management at Weight2Lose

Weight2Lose is a medical weight loss and chronic disease prevention and management clinic. The core elements of our weight loss systems are clinical nutrition and private personal training.

Clinical nutrition  is medically led and supervised nutritional counseling provided by registered clinical nutritionists and medical doctors.

Private personal training  takes place in our in-clinic studio, and teams you up with a personal trainer who will help you design a customized fitness program.

We also offer medical laser treatments  for fat reduction as a supplementary service to patients who enroll in our clinical nutrition or clinical nutrition and personal training programs.

Other Ways We Help Our Patients

While our primary focus is on overall health and wellbeing as well as healthy fat loss, these changes tend to bring a number of other benefits with them. These can include:

• Improved mindfulness and stress management
• Less likelihood of emotional eating
• Improved sleep