Our Difference

Weight Loss with a Degree of Difference. A Medical Degree.

You’ve tried every diet program out there, and then some. You’ve lost weight and felt good; then, you gained it all back – plus some. When your body loses weight, it goes through numerous physiological and metabolic changes. Medically monitoring and addressing these changes as they occur, helps the body safely and successfully lose weight and keep it off.

Comprehensive Medical Evaluation

Before a personalized medically supervised weight loss program is created for you, you will undergo an in-depth medical evaluation. Our Medical Director, Dr. Koch, along with our expert medical staff, will perform the following:  1) A review of your overall medical history; 2) A review of all of the medications and supplements that you may be taking to determine if they are preventing you from losing weight; 3) Conduct a comprehensive blood test to check for insulin resistance, thyroid function, and other factors.

Using this information, Dr. Koch will create a program that will help you safely and effectively lose weight, and most importantly, keep it off.

Sound Medical Analysis

Dr. Koch will analyze various factors, including your body mass index (BMI), medical history, blood test results, body measurements, and blood pressure to accurately predict the minimum amount of weight you will be able to safely lose over a specific period of time.

Safe, Effective, Long-term Results

If we diet incorrectly, our body’s natural tendency is to burn muscle before it burns fat. This is why you gain back the weight after stopping a diet – muscle is instrumental in the fat burning process, and why improper dieting can be so unsafe.

Medically supervised weight loss is different. Our medical team will consistently monitor your body composition and will adjust your program accordingly. We will make sure that you are burning fat and not muscle. This monitoring will allow you to have an easier time keeping the weight off in the future.

Behavior Modification and One-on-One Support

With over 30 years of medical expertise, Dr. Koch and our staff will work with you one-on-one to help you  see the reason behind why your current nutritional habits are unhealthy and how they have affected you in the past.  We will help you learn small modifications you can make to live a healthier lifestyle, and to help you maintain the weight loss you achieve.  We are here for you every step of the way.

Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle Education

You did it. You’ve reached your goal weight and taken off the pounds you’ve been battling for years, or at least a good many of them. You’re delighted with the results — you have more energy, your cholesterol is down and so is your blood pressure — and you’re justifiably proud of yourself. But at the back of your mind is a nagging fear: “What if I gain it all back?”

Weight maintenance is much like weight loss. The principals are essentially the same: eat healthy foods and exercise regularly. And like weight loss, weight maintenance requires a long-term commitment. Indeed, the key to successful weight maintenance is permanent lifestyle changes.

Come join us for our Nutrition and Healthy Lifestyle Education Classes as part of your maintenance program.  Our Nutrition Education Director, Kay Melba, is a certified Family Nurse Practitioner and specializes in nutrition education. Her classes will teach you that better lifestyle habits will reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and more! You will feel better, have more energy and reduce your risk of other illnesses. Living healthy also elevates your mood, helping you to feel happy and have more self confidence, which results in a better quality of life.  Take an active approach to living healthy and improve you health.

A Lifetime of Support

You have completed the maintenance phase of your wellness program and are doing a great job maintaining the new you…. and then it happens… LIFE!  Not a problem.  We are there to support you any time life happens.  Should you start to gain back some of those unwanted (and unhealthy) pounds, just give us a call.  Once a patient, always a patient!  We will work with you to identify what part of your life style needs fine tuning… and at no cost to you!