Weight loss may be challenging for several reasons, from the nutritional choices you make to having a hormone imbalance. At Priority Health MD in Cooper City, Florida, internal medicine physician Roberto Fernandez-Blay, MD, makes weight loss easier using customized diet, nutrition, and exercise plans. To learn more about how his weight loss plan can help you achieve your goal weight, call the office or schedule an appointment online today.
What is medical weight loss?
Medical weight loss is a doctor-supervised program that helps you find more effective weight loss strategies. Almost everyone has tried to lose weight on their own, and it’s usually the same story: either the weight loss plan doesn’t work or any lost weight comes back later.
Weight loss at Priority Health MD helps you identify the reasons you didn’t achieve long-lasting results before and then creates a plan to help you do it right this time.
What does medical weight loss involve?
Priority Health MD takes an integrative and personalized approach to weight loss. They evaluate your medical history, lifestyle, and routine habits to understand your difficulty with weight loss in the past. Your provider may order comprehensive lab tests to check for problems, such as hormone imbalance.
Your provider then customizes a weight loss program for you, with detailed information about nutrition, portion sizes, meal planning, food preparation, and exercise.
Many people who struggle to lose weight have a hormone disorder, such as a lack of estrogen or testosterone hormones. Rebalancing hormones can help your body work normally again, including speeding up your metabolism.
How does hormone replacement for weight loss work?
Bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) using Pro-Pell® pellets may be an excellent option to treat weight gain as a result of low hormone levels. BHRT gives you hormones that are molecular copies of your body’s natural hormones. They come from plant sources (versus animal sources in traditional hormone replacement therapy).
With pellet therapy, your provider implants tiny, rice-sized pellets just under your skin, usually in the hip area. The Pro-Pell pellets contain enough hormones for 3-6 months*.
The pellets release the hormones as you need them, keeping your hormone levels stable and allowing you to function at your best. Along with helping you lose weight, BHRT can help lift your mood, improve your energy, and relieve symptoms like hot flashes, mood swings, and libido issues.
Most people notice they feel better in just a day or two after pellet insertion and find it easier to succeed as you follow your nutrition and diet plan.
After you lose the weight, you might want to improve your results further through body contouring. The VelaShape® III system uses a combination of noninvasive technologies, including infrared light, bipolar radiofrequency energy, and vacuum suction, to reduce circumference, decrease cellulite, and shape your body.
To learn more about how a customized weight loss plan can lead you to a healthy weight and better health, call Priority Health MD or schedule an appointment online today.
