Hi, I'm a Philadelphia weight loss doctor at Philadelphia medical weight loss and I'm here to get rid of weight we have many different programs within the bariatric department. some of them are surgical some are not. sometimes surgery is merely not
for every person so that's where I come in. sometimes people are likely to loot to gain weight after surgery and I can help with that. so our medical weightl oss planweightl oss process contains a meal replacement program gowns been tried and analyzed and researched for the past 20 years. really shown a lot of success and we're fired up to use it. so there's a lot
of difficulties from obesity you know overall as a general person it makes
you feel tired it can make you experience poor about poorly about yourself it can make
you have less energy you might not exactly sleep well. it influences everything that you do
in every day most basic by shedding pounds and dropping and not losing muscle mass
you can use feel better about yourself. have more energy sleep better
at night maybe get remove of your stop snore phenomenon there are a whole lot of medical
complications related to obesity including blood pressure levels diabetes liver
disease renal disease lung disease like sleep apneand pulmonary hypertension.
by losing a lot of the weight you can actually lose some of the diseases. you can take yourself off medications and feel better or spend less and do well.
about a year or two ago the American Medical Association finally declared
unhealthy weight as its own disease entity which has given us the possibility to addresses it
more like a disease. from a comprehensive approach not only striving to figure out why the obesity happened but what we can do to prevent it in the foreseeable future. just like you would
hypertension or diabetes. and it helps all of us determine each patient individually look at
their medications that there might be on that may be thus, making them more likely to
gain weight. taking a look at their daily habits taking a look at their activity kind of
looking at a person from all different directions to help them improve.
obesity has become rampant within our country. back in the 1952s I do believe the
statistics show that about 4 5 percent of the people was
obese at that time. those numbers have now swelled to the over fifty percent the nation
being morbidly obese. over fifty percent the country being obese
in general or overweight and it's a disease that spread into our children. so
now there's a there's a nearly 100% chance that an obese child will grow
into an obese adult. it's my job to assist in preventing that and so trying to get to the diseases from a societal approach as well as from each individual
approaches is my goal. there are numerous definitions of obesity generally speaking
we go by a standard called BMI or body mass index. which measures takes an
bank account your height your weight and then make some calculations. if your BODY MASS INDEX is 30
or above you're actually considered morbidly obese. I'm sorry you aren't
considered obese with a BMI of 40 being morbidly obese studies show that if and when
you when you do have morbidly obese your mortality or your risk of dying actually
raises almost threefold. so this a condition we really want to work with
preventing and control to help the numbers get better that help people live
much longer. the obesity solutions medical weightloss process can help people feel
better and live longer. just how can they do that? well we can help you lose weight
but it's not always about weight itself it can about losing inches. it can about boosting your muscle mass and decreasing fat mass so that the people can metabolize better get around better. in the beginning we start off with a meal replacement program in order to people
lose weight rapidly initially. so that during at that time we can make them learn what actions are triggering some of their obesity or what medical problems may be contributing to their weight problems and then kind of attacking at every week every month to help we keep the weight under control. what you are going to expect if you
sign up for the program will be that you will see me for an beginning consultation and
an analysis and we determine if this method is good for you. and if so which program within it is an improved fit for you.
there are two programs on the whole one is called the very low caloric diet VLCD and the other one is called the LCD. the several calorie consumption LCD differs in that we offer you a regular meal in that time a lot of people feel like they cannot do without food well the VLCD would be a great fit for you. the
weight damage expected between two programs is about 3-5 pounds per week. with the VLCD and about you to three pounds for the LCD in about a month's time you come back and see me. and that we reevaluate we do blood tests we do EKGs we do a physical exam on you to check to see if there's any difficulties related to the obesity or most of the core disabilities including hypertonie and diabetes whether it appears like we can take you off some medications we definitely do that. you will follow up every week with either behavior modification group lessons on the whole
group sessions where all the patients kind of get together and we speak about a
certain topic. and it might be diet it could be activity could be behavior or it could be what are we doing that week and what's disturbing you. but it helps us all kind of keep a line and maintain things real, to help us stay in touch and keep track your weight loss every week.
