Everything you need to know about medical weight loss.

Topic: Weight loss clinic Canberra

At Capital Metabolic Clinic we offer a range of non-surgical and surgical weight loss treatments. Below, we will discuss our medical weight loss program - a program that is prescribed and monitored by our physician.

Why is it so hard to lose weight?

Your body is designed to hold onto as much fat as possible to help you survive in times when food may be scarce. That makes losing weight difficult for most people. Once you are overweight, your body actually tries to prevent permanent weight loss. It means that your body is then working against you as you are trying to lose weight.

How much you weigh is controlled by complex interactions between hormones from the gastrointestinal tract and neurons in your hypothalamus – that is the part of your brain that controls thirst, hunger, and body temperature. These hormones and neurons have an impact on your appetite and how much food you eat.

If you’re overweight, chances are that you have built up resistance to a hormone called leptin. The fat cells in your body produce leptin, and leptin lets your body know if you have enough stores of fat, which then decreases your appetite.

If you have been dieting or exercising to lose weight, without success, you may benefit from a comprehensive medical weight loss program.

How can a medical weight loss program help?

If you have decided you need help losing weight, Capital Metabolic Clinic is the only private weight loss clinic in Canberra with a team that includes doctors, dietitians, psychologists, and exercise physiologists.

We will work with you to change your eating habits and cravings, and reduce your risk of developing medical conditions that are related to obesity, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and stroke. Following a detailed medical examination to assess your current needs, our team will create a treatment plan to help you achieve a healthy weight.

We will monitor your progress, help you to problem-solve any barriers to behaviour change, and offer you all of the education you need so you can live your healthiest life.

In order to achieve long-term success, it is important that you learn to lose weight in a setting that takes your individual circumstances into account – that’s why we tailor the program to your specific needs.

If you like eating out and socialising, we will teach you how you can do this without compromising your weight loss or health goals.

How about weight loss medication?

If lifestyle changes are not enough, prescribed weight loss medication can provide excellent results. Along with a healthy diet and regular exercise, weight loss medication can help you achieve your weight loss goals.

Medication can help prevent weight gain. Often, after you have lost weight, your appetite hormone kicks in again, and weight loss medication can help to sustain your weight loss goals.

When we assess you, we will look at your overall health concerns and our doctor may include weight loss medication in your treatment plan.

Weight loss psychology

If you have been struggling with your weight for many years, you would know the burden this can have on mental health. Discipline, willpower and self-control are often the strategies and mindsets used. They are seductive approaches as they tend to bear short-term success. But the long-term outcome tends to be weight regain, plus some. Repeated efforts, but with the same outcome can result in feeling despondent about where to go next.

Beliefs around self-worth and loss of confidence can have a huge impact on how you feel and make it less likely to practise self-care. Disordered eating is a frequent outcome, and can further complicate efforts to lose weight.

With some help to gain insight into your approach to food, weight and health you stand a better shot at not just change in your weight, but your complete health.

Sessions focus on helping you to gain insight into your relationship to food, weight and body. Genuinely moving from the ‘weight loss regain plus some’ diet cycle – with evidence-based, as well as tried and true strategies. This comes from nearly two decades of experience with patients who, like you, not only want to lose weight (and keep it off) but also develop and strengthen an approach that will bring more enjoyment of food and no guilt; strategies for self-care that last; and a mindset and habits that are perfectly appropriate to model to others (for example those of you with kids; or even partners, family or friends who are nearby).

Ready for change?

Are you ready for a change? Our highly experienced multidisciplinary team uses a wide range of evidence-based practices to support you and help you achieve your weight loss goals. Contact us today.

Ready for change?

Contact our friendly team at
(02) 6210 1070