Achieve Your Body Goals With Weight-Loss Counseling
The weight loss journey involves overcoming several mental health and emotional obstacles. Your weight loss specialist Fairfax at Nova Physician Wellness Center understands your mindset and cravings have a huge impact on your weight loss efforts, so they devise creative ways to help you manage these habits and achieve your goals.
What you should know about weight-loss counseling
Weight-loss counseling can help you identify various factors affecting your weight management. Your knowledge and thoughts about food, behavior, and exercise can help you shed extra calories and lead a healthier and more fulfilling life. The Nova Physicians Wellness Center team incorporates weight-loss counseling or behavioral therapy in your weight-loss program to achieve optimum results. They create individualized medical and physical exams, exercise plans, and nutrition training according to your unique needs. During your initial consultation, Dr. Chaudhary and Dr. Suri discuss your knowledge about nutrition, general approach to food, and current eating habits. They help you identify patterns that hinder your weight-loss efforts, like snacking on candy.
What a weight-loss program involves
During your appointment at Nova Physicians Wellness Center, the team performs a thorough physical exam and lab work to assess your general health and detect potential weight-loss challenges. They may also perform an electrocardiogram to evaluate your heart’s health. Your provide may incorporate the following in your weight loss program:
- Meal planning
Your choice of food has a significant effect on your weight management. Your provider may recommend eating more natural foods and less of snacks and fast foods. The team also personalizes your nutrition plan to ensure your body receives vital nutrients while reducing calorie intake.
- Body composition testing
Dr. Chaudhary and Dr. Suri conduct a bio-metabolic analysis to evaluate your caloric needs to facilitate weight loss. Body composition testing reveals the changes in body fat percentage, muscle mass and fat mass, and lean body distribution.
- Medication
You may also need to take FDA-approved pharmaceutical-grade vitamins, appetite suppressants, and other nutritional supplements to achieve your weight goals. These medications are optional; your doctor may only prescribe them depending on your preferences and medical state.
- Behavioral counseling
During your weight loss journey, the team schedules meetings with you to evaluate your progress and determine different ways to help you navigate your behavioral and lifestyle obstacles to achieving your weight goals.
Trigger foods to avoid
Trigger foods are foods that cause you to crave and eat more. These foods cause an emotional connection or draw to that particular food making it hard to resist. Dr. Chaudhary and Dr. Suri help you discover creative ways to avoid these trigger foods, including replacing them with healthier options and reducing the number of such foods in your fridge. The team focuses on enhancing nutritional training, behavioral intentions, and mindfulness to help you understand and resist trigger foods. Mindfulness involves thinking and concentrating on the benefits and downsides of whatever you put in your mouth. This aspect trains your body’s natural cues of hunger and satiety. Occasionally exposing yourself to tempting foods can improve your mindset and strengthen your ability to resist.
Call the Nova Physician Wellness Center office or book an appointment online if you want to lose weight.
