The secret of permanent, rewarding weight loss success lies in changing behavior patterns (altering patterns of eating and activity). The Medical Weight Loss System approach puts the responsibility for changing behavior and losing weight in your hands while providing a robust support group and doctor supervision to help you successfully lose weight.

Making proper, healthy decisions on a daily basis is very empowering. Unfortunately, most of us place these decisions in the hands of other people or circumstances. Yet taking responsibility….. to weight management. MWLS takes the guess work out of living a healthy lifestyle and will guide you through the proper choices under the direct supervision of a physician. Our goal is to have you lose your weight as fast and easy in a healthy way as possible.

The Medical Weight Loss System Tips for Weight Loss Success:
1. Eat a variety of foods to get the energy, protein, vitamins, minerals, and fiber you need for good health.
2. Balance the food you eat with physical activity. Maintain or improve your weight to reduce your chances of having high blood pressure, heart disease, a stroke, certain cancers, and the most common kind of diabetes.
3. Choose foods with plenty of grain products, vegetables, and fruits which provide needed vitamins, minerals, fiber, and complex carbohydrates, and can help you lower your intake of fat.
4. Choose foods low in fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol to reduce your risk of heart attack and certain types of cancer and to help you maintain a healthy weight.
5. Choose a diet moderate in sugars. A diet with lots of sugars has too many calories and too few nutrients for most people and can contribute to tooth decay.
6. Choose a diet moderate in salt and sodium to help reduce your risk of high blood pressure.
7. If you drink alcoholic beverages, do so in moderation. Alcoholic beverages supply calories, but little or no nutrients. Drinking alcohol is also the cause of many health problems and accidents and can lead to addiction.

Weight Loss Tips for Shopping:
1. Never shop when tired or hungry.
2. Plan a grocery list from your food plan and follow it.
3. When reading labels, learn to spot words that mean the same as sugar: brown sugar; corn syrup; dextrin; dextrose; sucrose; fructose; glucose; honey; invert sugar; jam; jelly; lactose; levulose; maple syrup; maltose; molasses; and turbinado sugar.
4. The best way to shop quickly and nutritiously is to shop the outside perimeter of the supermarket. This is where you will find the meats, poultry, fish, dairy, fruits and vegetables.

Tips to Preparation for the Medical Weight Loss System
To help insure your success on this program:
1. Prepare yourself and evaluate your commitment
   to lifetime weight maintenance.
2. Prepare your environment.
  * Purchase what you need.
  * Remove what you don't need.
3. Prepare your family/support group:
  * Discuss the program with them.
  * Explain the way you would like them to express their support.
4. Come with a positive, willing attitude.
5. Be prepared to exercise four to six times a week.

The Medical Weight Loss System teaches the Personal Change Process, which assists you to:
* Work with your body instead of fighting against it.
* Develop a personal problem-solving approach.
* Develop resonable alternatives for challenging situations.
* Accept credit for success.
* Prepare for the inevitable slips that occur and make corrections in your self-management plans.
* Develop a system of physical activity balanced with food weight maintenance.
* Develop a social support system.
* Teaches what must be done in the weight-maintenance phase.

The mission of the Medical WeightLoss System is to assist you to live a healthier, happier, and more productive life. Our program prides itself on its deep commitment to education. In the group sessions you will be introduced to educational information. During these sessions you will learn or remind yourself what it takes to be a weight manager. Research supports that people who exercise frequently, have post treatment contact with therapists, maintain contact with group support, and continue behavior therapy maintain 99% of their weight loss.

A nation-wide study of weight-loss program graduates indicates that those people who maintain do so by continuing regular exercise and catching weight gain at 3 to 5 pounds from a specified goal.

A weight control support group offers a safe place where individuals who share similar experiences can come to learn about nutrition, weight loss, changing life-style behaviors, exercise.  When you begin MWLS with your local physician, you can have the confidence that the training and education, portion controlled meals, and support will help you successfully lose weight quickly and easily --- and keep it off!