Our Board certified pharmacists will strategize an individualized plan for weight loss and weight maintenance for you based on clinical practice guidelines by:
- Planning an individual Low Calorie Diet (LCD) therapy.
- Designing an individual platform for improved Physical Activity.
- Formulating strategies to overcome barriers to compliance with dietary therapy and/or increased physical activity.
The Above Combined Therapy – LCD, Daily Physical Activity and Behavioral Therapy is the prescription for the most successful intervention for weight loss and weight maintenance. Specific strategies include self-monitoring of both eating habits and physical activity, stress management, stimulus control, problem solving, contingency management, cognitive restructuring, and social support.
- Pharmacotherapy can augment the above if goal is not obtained for some patients with a BMI of ³ 30 with no concomitant risk factors or diseases, and for patients with a BMI of ³ 27 with concomitant risk factors or diseases.
- Weight loss surgery is one option for weight reduction in a limited number of patients with clinically severe obesity, i.e., BMIs ³ 40 or ³ 35 with comorbid conditions. Weight loss surgery should be reserved for patients in whom efforts at medical therapy have failed and who are suffering from the complications of extreme obesity.
- Our board certified pharmacist can guide you on personalized Diet, Physical Activity, Behavioral Therapy, Pharmacotherapy, Medicinal and Nutritional impact upon pre & post Weight Loss Surgery through an integrated program.
