A medically supervised weight-loss program
Discuss eating behaviours such as emotional eating, contributing factors to weight gain and redress barriers to exercise to enable not only weight loss, but to maintain a healthy weight in the long-term.
Conduct a comprehensive health evaluation including metabolic profile, body composition and measurements, and cardiovascular risk assessment.
Provide an individualised diet and exercise plan to facilitate weight loss as well as addressing the psychology of behaviour change to enable weight loss and maintenance.
This is a question that I have been asked repeatedly by patients over the years as a parting question at the end of a consultation about something else. It seems to me that these patients are hopeful that I might tell them that a new magic pill or potion has been invented that will make their excess weight vanish overnight like a miracle!
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