The Medical Weight Management Program takes a team approach to weight loss and consists of four phases:
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1. Assessment
You'll begin with a thorough medical and lifestyle assessment, enabling our physician, who specializes in bariatric medicine, and our professional staff to create your customized treatment plan.
2. Active Weight Loss
This phase typically lasts for 12 weeks. You will meet weekly in a lifestyle changes group that will assist with your nutrition, activity habits, and help you to develop lifestyle skills for successful weight management.
During this intense portion of the program, you will be closely monitored by our physician and by other health care providers, such as a nurse, dietitian, and exercise therapist.
Your daily nutrition will come from Optifast® Formula and/or Nutra RecipesTM nutrition bars.
Medical Monitoring:
Your weight is an important factor in your health. Our physician is trained to recognize and monitor changes in your health as your weight changes.
Because there is quick and significant weight loss, we require regular lab work and medical monitoring to reduce health risks and to adjust the treatment program as necessary.
3. Transition phase
This phase typically lasts for 6 weeks, during which you will slowly substitute food for formula.
During an individual appointment, a registered dietitian will help you develop a personalized meal plan. Group lifestyle education classes will continue to reinforce your new eating and activity behaviors. Medical monitoring continues as well.
4. Maintenance Phase
This ongoing phase involves your active participation in a supportive environment. Our program offers maintenance as an on-going basis to support your future weight management.
Six months of maintenance is required after you attend all of the Weight Management Program sessions during the active weight loss and transition cycle.
The maintenance phase consists of weekly group meetings, weigh-in opportunity, and 6 one-to-one clinician visits. Attending our maintenance program will help you prevent weight regain and to retain your improved health and appearance.
We offer Optifast® Formula, a high quality, calorie controlled, nutritional formula, which provides 100 percent of the recommended daily intake (RDI) for vitamins and minerals.
The program is based on the scientifically proven method of weight loss known as stimuli narrowing, which is decreasing the number of choices available for food intake. For more about the Optifast® Formula, visit www.optifast.com.
Call 828-213-2222 option 2 for information and registration.
Free information meetings about the Medical Weight Management program and other Mission weight management programs are held the first Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and the third Thursdays from 6:45 to 8:00 pm. Pricing will be discussed as well.
