Weight loss is not a diet. It is not a pill. It is not a hormone. It is not an operation.  Weight loss is a change in lifestyle. Weight loss is a journey. The important part of the journey is not only how much you eat, but what you eat. We believe strongly in locally grown and organic foods.

The fundamentals of weight loss are outlined in our book "Losing the last 30 pounds." That book will help you set on a simple fundamental change to produce success. 

As a physician helping people to lose weight for 20 years I've seen a lot of diets come and go.  Everything from the ice-cream diet, the cookie diet - and enough work-out programs that one would think America would have a problem trying to put on weight, not take off weight. What all those programs fail to do is address the fundamental issues of weight, fundamental issues of how you eat when you are not on their program. Some of the weight loss programs call themselves a "lifestyle" but they really are used as a diet. So Atkins, Southbeach, and Ornish- most use you as a diet - not a ifestyle - and the long-term results show it.

Diets won't work - and for a lot of reason. So stop trying to lose weight by dieting, and start looking at what you eat and how much. Simple changes done over time- have remarkable success. If you are unwilling to change what you eat, how you eat, where you eat- the odds are you will not lose weight. But if you are willing for a change- then we can do it.  Did you know by removing 100 calories a day from what you eat - over a year it will mean 10 pounds of weight gone? That's it-- 100 calories a day.  That is an easy change.

Then there are medications for weight loss.  First a warning: those medicines that are available by prescription are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.  Those medicines that are sold over-the-counter (without needing a prescription) are NOT regulated. Many weight loss precription medications have been taken off the market for safety reasons. Many of the over-the-counter medications should not be used at all.  A pill is NOT the answer to weight loss. And while precription medications have well documented dangers- many of the medications you can get without a prescription are just as dangerous if not more so. Because pills bought without a prescription are not regulated by the FDA - there is no requirement that they do what they claim to do. At best most of the over-the-counter medicines are worthless - at worse, they can harm you.

For those patients who need more help, I do weight loss surgery - but we treat it more than an operation, it is a journey. A journey we can help you through. Our goal is to help you transform your weight loss journey into a reality.

If you need more help - you might consider surgery.  This website isn't about the surgery- it is about the lifestyle.  But if you feel that you need more help for your weight you can

Visit our website:
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Until then- start your journey by examining your lifestyle- what you eat, and where you eat. Perhaps it is time to make some great changes!