by Caitlyn Walsh

Christmas has come and gone, and 2016 is here bringing promise of change and hope for the future. Time to break out the New Years resolutions! Statistically, the most frequently attempted resolution is to lose weight. Of the 38% of us who make these resolutions, only 8% achieve their goals. If this sounds familiar and you’re trying your hardest to lose weight and be healthy in 2016, you may benefit from the medical weight loss program at Signature Medicine in Newtown, PA.

Losing weight is difficult. It’s difficult even when you know maintaining a healthy weight is necessary for avoiding a variety of health issues, not to mention improving our overall quality of life.  Weight impacts life expectancy, mood and mental health, relationships and social interactions, even finances and job security. Health conditions like type-2 diabetes, high blood pressure, poor cholesterol, heart disease, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis, and cancer are all strongly related to obesity.  Yet, daily stress, hectic schedules, and a general lack of knowledge about the weight loss process are often more than enough to keep us from losing weight, or prevent us from keeping the weight off once it is lost.

Here to help is Dr. Ashish Sitapara, M.D. of Signature Medicine. Dr. Sitapara completed his fellowship at Boston University Medical Center, served on the faculty at Harvard Medical School, taught at University of Pennsylvania, and founded Signature Medicine in 2006. Dr. Ashish and Nurse Practitioner Deborah Marino, worked together to create a medical weight loss program that tailors to the individual needs of each Signature Medicine patient.

Medical weight loss is an all-inclusive, science-based alternative to conventional weight loss programs. With state of the art tools to help you achieve your weight loss goals, the program is focused on long-term care, personalized to the specific needs of each patient. It includes weight loss medications, low calorie diet guidelines, meal replacement products, lifestyle education, and one on one, judgment free, ongoing support from a medical professional.

The weight loss medications utilized by Signature Medicine offer powerful supports for weight loss. One medication used works by controlling appetite. Combined with a healthy diet and regular exercise, the medication increases your ability to stay on track with your weight loss goals by helping you make healthy choices and break bad habits—things done much more easily with a reduced appetite.

Other medications offered at Signature Medicine help by inhibiting the absorption of fat. While your body is digesting, the medication stops the breakdown of food into fat, and causes the fat to be expelled naturally as waste.  Although using these medications make it easier to lose weight by curbing appetite, Dr. Sitapara ensures that his patients understand that healthy food choices and exercise must be incorporated into their every day life.

Signature medicine also offers great meal replacement products, including various OPTIFAST shakes, soups, and bars. These products provide optimal ratios of high quality protein, carbohydrates and crucial fatty acids to stimulate weight loss, curb appetite and protect against the loss of beneficial muscle weight.  Because the program is patient-specific, the medical history, weight and lifestyle of each individual are taken into consideration while creating a personalized OPTIFAST program.

The most important benefit of this medical weight loss program is the patient specific, doctor approved, lifestyle education. Trained medical professionals will help you achieve healthy weight loss through a comprehensive process that teaches about nutrition, exercise, and everything necessary to foster genuine lifestyle changes. These changes include: exercise guidance, one on one nutritional counseling, behavior modification, and stress and time management techniques.  The best thing about this unique weight loss experience is that you are never on your own.

If Signature Medicine’s program sounds like something that would be beneficial to your life, you can schedule a free consultation through February 14, 2016. Call 215.968.4804 or reach out on the Signature Medicine website. The program’s weight loss specialists will be there with you, every step of the way, guiding and aiding you, as you become your best self.

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