Medically supervised weight loss shows more weight loss than standard diets

Recently in  USA today there was an article entitled “Middle-aged dieters hit a brick wall after 10 pounds or so”. The article goes on to profile a few persons who had lost about 10% of their weight and further stated that “people usually drop about 5% to 10% of their starting weight in the first three to six months on a program. For many people, that’s a loss of 10 to 20 pounds. After that, some people hit the wall and their weight plateaus.”

In a traditional diet, it is recommended you aim to lose 1-2 pounds a week.  In medical weight loss from a medical bariatrician (physician specializing in non-surgical weight loss), you can expect to lose between 2 and 7 lbs per week.

Our experience shows that our patients lose weight quickly and safely with scientifically proven weight loss methods including meal replacements, behavioral counseling and appetite suppressants.  We can control hunger by using specific dietary strategies or medications.  We monitor your progress with frequent visits with the doctor, body impedance measurements including body fat measurement on our Tanita scale, and blood tests looking at several aspects including kidney function, liver function and electrolytes.

If you take all of our patients in to account, both males and females, below is a chart of average weight loss per month.