Per CDC National Center for Health Statistics data brief, 42.4 % of the US population through the years of 2017-2018 was found to be obese. (1) The estimated annual medical cost of obesity in the US was 147 billion dollars in 2008; the medical cost for people who have obesity was $ 1,429 higher than those of normal weight. Obesity-related conditions including heart disease, type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer, hypertension are some of the leading causes of preventable and premature death, meaning are risk factors of chronic disease that can be addressed and if treated properly, reverse the presence of chronic inflammatory disease, and by default, improve your quality of life.

Project of Health`s Sustainable Weight Loss Program is not a program that is the same for everybody. It is a journey that is personalized in nature, a weight loss and maintenance support program that takes into account your specific body type, needs, your body imbalances if any, your lifestyle, eating and living habits, band the tremendous impact of obesogens and environmental contaminants. We surround our work around the principles of Functional Nutrition looking for root causes of your symptoms and factors that underline chronic disease.

The way we address unhealthy weight is by diving deep into your history and lifestyle. We do not assume it is a cause of overeating, and or poor food choices. We work together in discovering what makes you unwell, goal setting, modifying diet choices. Guide you to learning how to use food as medicine in a gentle way so it becomes a part of you daily routine. Our treatment plan incorporates multimodal strategies including but not limiting to: personalized nutritional weekly meal plans, calorie targets, therapeutic meal diets; lifestyle modifications such as movement, rest, sleep, stress reduction, etc. We may also incorporate the use of supplements, botanicals, spices and teas.

In addition, to provide support in your healthy weight loss, and maintenance of the weight lost, we connected with L-Nutra and Prolon FMD. As approved professional providers, we offer additional 20% off access link to our patients to Prolon Fasting Mimicking Diet-FMD plans. Research have proven Prolon FMD to support abdominal- visceral weight loss around the belly, among other biomarkers. (2) With our plan, we are going to establish a protocol on the number of cycles you will need to finish and provide personalized after the fact follow up diet weekly plans and lifestyle recommendations to support and maintain in a sustainable way your weight loss journey.

References:

1) Fryar CD, Kruszon-Moran D, Gu Q, Ogden CL. Mean body weight, height, waist circumference, and body mass index among adults: United
States, 1999–2000 through 2015–2016. National Health Statistics Reports; no 122. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2018

2) Fanti, Maura et al. “Time-Restricted Eating, Intermittent Fasting, and Fasting-Mimicking Diets in Weight Loss.” Current obesity reports vol. 10,2 (2021): 70-80. doi:10.1007/s13679-021-00424-2