Weight Loss Solutions and Services at Advanced Weight Solutions
Is Your Weight Keeping You from Living Life to the Fullest?
If excess weight is causing health problems, making life less enjoyable, impacting your self-esteem, or just weighing you down, you probably know you “should lose weight.” But how? Where to begin? The thought can be overwhelming.
At Alexian Brothers Advanced Weight Solutions, individuals who are overweight find the help they need to lose weight, modify their lifestyles, manage diseases resulting from obesity, and live their lives to the fullest.
Surgical Treatment
If traditional weight loss methods have not worked for you, surgical treatment may be the answer you've been looking for. You know your excess weight is putting you at risk for other complications. You also need to know that surgical solutions, such as Lap Band®, REALIZE™ band or gastric bypass surgery, have proven very effective in treating morbid obesity and its dangerous co-morbidities. Innovative surgical breakthroughs hold the promise of a new beginning.
Here are some reasons to consider a surgical solution:
- Diet and exercise typically do not have a long-term impact on morbid obesity.
- Surgery is the only proven method for long term weight control when other therapies have failed.
- It is possible to resolve or improve weight-related illnesses or co-morbidities.
- Surgical solutions are now proven procedures with recognized and documented results.
- The risks of staying morbidly obese are greater than the risks of surgery.
Medical (Non-surgical) Treatment
Medical research has shown that a team approach contributes to the success of patients dealing with weight issues. Weight treatment and management involves your body, mind, and spirit. You don’t have to go it alone. To help ensure your success the Alexian Brothers Advanced Weight Solutions team has developed a holistic, non-surgical approach to assist you on your journey to achieving a healthier weight and lifestyle.
The team will offer a comprehensive treatment plan with specific recommendations for special treatment or education that may include:
- Nutritional Counseling
- Diabetes Education
- Emotional/Psychological Counseling
- Treatment for Depression
- Treatment for Eating Disorders
- Pharmacological treatment (medicine) if appropriate
- Physical therapy, if necessary, to properly prepare you for increased activity
- Referral for a surgical solution, if appropriate candidate
