| Like others seeking a weight loss center or other | | | | dieticians or nutritionists. |
| forms of physician supervised weight loss, you may | | | | Healthy living, including cooking at home and following |
| have sizable goals which are more likely to be | | | | what are clinically deemed to be appropriate meal |
| achieved with the help of individuals such diet doctors | | | | plans, are often key components to effective |
| or nutritionists. | | | | programs. Nutritionally balanced meal replacements |
| Understanding how to treat each patient as an | | | | and or supplements, are also often combined with the |
| individual, while working with a patient's specific weight | | | | use of prescription medications as part of a patient's |
| loss goal in mind, specialists can closely track and | | | | strategy for success. |
| monitor each of their patients during the course of | | | | In many cases, the best candidates for medically |
| treatment. The treatment protocols used at most | | | | supervised treatment are moderately overweight or |
| medically supervised centers tend to be safer and | | | | obese adults who are committed to taking the |
| often more effective when compared to results seen | | | | necessary steps, and making the lifestyle changes as |
| when patients begin dieting on their own. | | | | directed by their doctor. |
| Doctors who specialize in healthy and sustainable | | | | Surgical Options: |
| weight loss programs often have different options for | | | | For patients in need of bariatric surgery, many centers |
| their patients that often have been specially tailored to | | | | offer patients options that include what is known as |
| meet unique needs and goals of both their male and | | | | gastric bypass surgery, and a more minimally invasive |
| female patients. | | | | procedure often referred to as lap-banding. Both |
| Some weight loss centers track each patient's overall | | | | procedures have proven to be safe and effective |
| food intake extremely carefully, as doing so can help | | | | forms of bariatric surgery that can result in patients |
| to ensure that patients do not begin to loose excess | | | | experiencing substantial weight loss shortly after |
| weight in an unhealthy, unsafe manner. | | | | treatment. |
| Medical weight-loss clinics are generally staffed by | | | | As is the case with non-surgical weight loss center |
| doctors and medical professionals which may include | | | | patients, those seeking a surgical approach, often find |
| diet doctors, exercise physiologists, mental health | | | | that the greatest success is achieved when treatment |
| providers such as psychologists, as well as those who | | | | is combined with long-term medical supervision and |
| can assist with diet and lifestyle modification such as | | | | appropriate lifestyle modification. |