Medical Weight Management Inc

Medical Weight Management offers a comprehensive weight loss program supervised by a physician board certified in Internal Medicine and affiliated with NYU Medical Center. We accept most health insurance where applicable and have evening and weekend hours for your convenience. Optifast is the basis of the MWM program. It is a well-established, very low calorie diet with a long track record of success and safety in achieving rapid weight loss. We place great emphasis on helping you to avoid regaining the weight you lost and often prescribe and monitor the use of safe, FDA approved appetite suppressant medications to prevent you from re-gaining the weight you lost, or to help you lose weight in the first place. At your initial visit we take a comprehensive medical history to understand the circumstances that have led to your weight gain. We request medical data from your primary physician and then recommend, if indicated, appropriate medical testing and evaluation. Once we know enough about you to recommend a customized plan, we work with you to determine realistic goals and a time frame in which to achieve them. If your weight loss is too slow, or not sustained, we will modify the plan, with your input, sometimes by the addition of FDA approved appetite suppressant medications, to achieve and maintain success. Research shows that important medical benefits from weight loss occur early, after the first 10% of body weight is lost. Patients know that the greatest psychological benefits of weight loss - how you feel about how you look - come at the end of a diet, as you approach your goal weight. How you feel motivates you to make the lifestyle changes necessary to stay in shape, and, in the long run, It is only by changing your lifestyle, most importantly by starting a program of life long physical activity - that you will be able to maintain your new weight. It is the change in your behavior, not just your weight, that is the true goal of a responsible weight loss program. That is why what you weigh 12 months after you have stopped the program is how we measure success. Our dietician and weight loss counselor are available to you throughout this entire period.