More About Medication...
Weight loss medication may be offered to assist
you control your appetite and compulsive eating. By tailoring these prescription
medications to fit your individual health needs, your ability to comply with the
nutritional targets laid out for you will be enhanced. Medications usually will need
to be adjusted as your body changes to maximize their fullest effect at minimal doses.
Strong chemical signals trigger humans and all
animal species to crave food. Some people tend to crave, or focus on food more than
others do which can lead to weight problems. Medications can greatly lessen this
focus on food.
As with any medications, there can be
complications. However, due to our low dosage regimen and careful patient screening,
significant side effects are rarely seen. Dr. Wells has ample experience with these
specific medicines and will prescribe a course of pharmaceutical intervention, if
applicable, that will offer you the greatest benefits for you specifically with the least
chance of side effects or complications.
Maintenance of weight loss stems not from the
medicines you take, but what you are able to learn and change while taking the medicines.
If you do take the medicines, use them as an aid to your efforts and not as the
entire program or you may be very disappointed in the months to come. Most people
can lose some amount of weight with just taking the medications and not making any
lifestyle changes, but those results are short lived and temporary. Reality is that
it takes a combination of lifestyle approaches to realize permanent results.
We emphasize that the medicines help provide a
doorway to step through to a healthier life!
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