Weight Loss
Losing weight can benefit your health in many ways, including reducing your risk for heart disease, diabetes, stroke and osteoarthritis. We can help through our medical and surgical weight loss programs.
Off the Scales
Some benefits of weight loss are off the scales. Losing weight can benefit your health in many ways:
- Reduces blood pressure, cholesterol & joint pain
- Lowers risk for diabetes, heart disease, stroke & osteoarthritis
- Enhances sleep quality & boosts energy Improves many other medical conditions
Let’s Be Clear
Perhaps you have lost weight before, but it was temporary. For many people, the weight always comes back.
More important than any tool for weight loss, it is important is to be clear on:
- Why do you want to lose weight?
- What would be measurably different and better in your life tomorrow if you woke up and you were at your ideal weight?
Losing weight could be the start of many great changes for you. But losing weight and keeping it off takes work.
You will hit obstacles. You’ll want to quit. You’ll be tempted to think it’s just not worth it.
That’s why it’s so important to have a clearly defined reason for putting in all the work to reach your goal.
What & Why?
People who are clear on their WHAT and WHY are the ones who succeed. They keep working despite wanting to give up.
- What is your #1 goal?
- Is it to lose 40 pounds?
- Or 65 pounds?
- Or 200 pounds?
- Why do you want that goal?
- Do you want to get off so much medication?
- Do you want to be able to go on rides with your kids without worrying about the weight limit?
- Do you want to fit in your favorite clothes again?
- Do you want to be more self-confident?
Sharpen Your Why
Focusing your WHY around resolving health issues—and getting off the medications that accompany them—is a wonderful goal.
Get very specific about your WHY. For example, rather than “feel better about myself,” consider what you would do if you felt better about yourself. Would you wear different clothes? Would you stop volunteering to be the photographer and actually be in the photos? Do you want to be able to tie your shoes without holding your breath?
You deserve to look and feel great. Your strong WHY will translate into the commitment you need to complete this journey.
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patient stories
Amy O'Neal
Millport, Alabama, resident Amy O’Neal’s quality of life has soared since losing 117 pounds – so much so that she even went parasailing!
Andy Hubbard
Andy Hubbard of Columbus once tipped the scaled at well over 400 pounds.
Karecia Adams
Karecia Adams of Amory dropped 112 pounds after weight loss surgery. “The only regret you’ll have is not doing it sooner!” she says.
Katy McCully
“It isn’t easy,” says Katy McCully of Baldwyn, who has lost 105 pounds. “but the good that comes from it outweighs the bad.”
Kimberly Holmes
“I feel like I have my life back,” says Kimberly Holmes of Eupora since dropping more than 100 pounds in just over a year.
Kimberly Morrow
If you're considering weight loss surgery, Kimberly Morrow of Columbus says, "“Don’t wait any longer!” Kimberly has dropped 100 pounds since her procedure.
Sabrina Foster
“I am more active and feel so much better,” says Sabrina Foster of Booneville since losing 86 pounds. “I have my life back and am very thankful.”
Tammy Cotten
Tammy Cotten of Bruce says she is “happier and healthier” now that she’s 106 pounds lighter.
Amy O'Neal
Millport, Alabama, resident Amy O’Neal’s quality of life has soared since losing 117 pounds – so much so that she even went parasailing!
Andy Hubbard
Andy Hubbard of Columbus once tipped the scaled at well over 400 pounds.
Karecia Adams
Karecia Adams of Amory dropped 112 pounds after weight loss surgery. “The only regret you’ll have is not doing it sooner!” she says.
Katy McCully
“It isn’t easy,” says Katy McCully of Baldwyn, who has lost 105 pounds. “but the good that comes from it outweighs the bad.”
Kimberly Holmes
“I feel like I have my life back,” says Kimberly Holmes of Eupora since dropping more than 100 pounds in just over a year.
Kimberly Morrow
If you're considering weight loss surgery, Kimberly Morrow of Columbus says, "“Don’t wait any longer!” Kimberly has dropped 100 pounds since her procedure.
Sabrina Foster
“I am more active and feel so much better,” says Sabrina Foster of Booneville since losing 86 pounds. “I have my life back and am very thankful.”
Tammy Cotten
Tammy Cotten of Bruce says she is “happier and healthier” now that she’s 106 pounds lighter.
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