What is obesity?
Understand obesity. South Florida medical weight management and FDA-approved medications and injections. Lifestyle changes guided by board-certified weight-loss experts. Weight loss clinic near Miami and ongoing support. Bariatric procedures. Individualized healthy eating plan.
What is obesity?
Obesity is a complex metabolic illness and health condition that increases a person’s risk of developing chronic disease including stroke, heart disease, diabetes, certain types of cancer, and high blood pressure. There are many genetic, cultural, social, and behavioral factors that can lead to obesity.
Not only does being obese increase the risk of chronic disease, but it can also negatively affect people’s professional, educational, and personal lives. Those who struggle with their weight often experience bias, are stigmatized by peers, experience wage inequities, and even receive negative attitudes in healthcare services and more. The financial, social, and health effects of obesity are too costly to ignore.
Achieve meaningful weight loss
Reduce risk of obesity-related conditions like stroke, heart disease, high blood pressure.
Reduce hunger, cravings, and improve portion control.
Develop healthy, sustainable lifestyle and eating habits.
Improve fertility.
Live your healthiest life.
How to determine if someone is obese.
Our team of board-certified, South Florida weight loss physicians and nurse practitioners use a variety of data to determine someone’s weight status. The measure most commonly used to determine if someone is obese, at this time, is the BMI (Body Mass Index). The BMI is the only index validated by the World Health Organization. Obesity is more complex than one number.
As weight-loss professionals, we know the importance of looking deeper. Along with a patient’s BMI, we analyze our patients’ weight, medical history, lifestyle, diet history, weight-cycling history, and more to determine if they are a candidate for medical weight management or bariatric surgery.
We look forward to working with you.
Live your healthiest life.
Obesity is a treatable disease. Bariatric surgery and medical weight loss treatments and procedures are the most effective ways to treat morbid obesity. Coupled with lifestyle changes, eating behavior changes, and diet plans developed by medical weight loss physicians and expert bariatric dietitian nutritionists, reaching and maintaining a healthy weight is possible.
There is no treatment that works for everyone. Every patient who walks through our door, in our weight loss clinic near Miami, receives an individualized weight loss plan. We provide our patients with choices – intragastric balloon, Lap-Band®, gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy (VSG), and medical weight management – and have worked with thousands of patients over the years, helping them achieve, and sustain, a healthy weight.
We are committed to the long-term success of our patients.
Meet the Team
How it Works
Are you a candidate?
Make an appointment and meet with your weight loss doctor. Find out if you are a candidate for bariatric surgery or medical weight loss treatments.
Choose the best option
Whether you’re having bariatric surgery (gastric bypass, Lap-Band®, the sleeve, the gastric balloon) or medical weight management, our team is here to prepare you, including psychological counseling, nutrition coaching, and supplement protocol.
Begin your treatment
Expert bariatric surgeons and weight loss doctors provide you with the best care. Excellence in individualized patient care.
Receive ongoing support
Get the tools you need to live a life of wellness and health. Sustain weight loss with meaningful lifestyle changes with support from our team. We are committed to your health.
We Accept Insurance
We proudly accept several common insurance plans. Click below to learn more.
We are proud members of ASMSB. Being a member of the ASMSB provides our board-certified medical staff and surgeons with access to the best resources, information, and support to advance the science of metabolic and bariatric surgery. Members of ASMBS are committed to continually improving the quality and safety of care and treatment of people with obesity, recognized as authorities and resources on metabolic and bariatric surgery.
Achieve, and sustain, a healthy weight. Start today!
