Nationally recognized
MEDICAL WEIGHT CONTROL PROGRAM
Boise’s Best Kept Secret
Thousands of books, articles, newspaper and TV commercials have been written and produced on weight loss. Much of what is said and written about weight control is based on a fad, e.g. raspberry ketones or HCG. Another sales gimmick is to display before and after pictures enticing you to believe your results will be the same. Yet after all the books, TV shows and commercials, weight control seems more confusing, more difficult, and constantly getting harder to achieve. Every program works for somebody. For example, hurray for Jared and Subway. No program works for everybody (even ours). Yet 97.4% of our program’s 15,000 patients lost weight at their first month checkup. Our programs’ patients have now lost over 500,000 pounds. No program in America presents better statistical results at national weight loss conferences. Boise, Idaho is the only city in America with a medical weight loss clinic with three Certified physicians of the American Board of Obesity Medicine (ABOM). Our program’s primary focus is to medically assist patients needing to lose 20 or more pounds. Our patients have ranged from 135 to over 600 pounds at their starting weight (average 214). We monitor and manage all conditions affected by weight gain or loss. Dr. Rader, the program founder, has presented to doctors locally, nationally and internationally in medical weight management.
IDAHO WEIGHT LOSS (IWL)
Nutrition
Our program is complete, and up to Metabolism/ Biochemistry date scientifically based. Evidence based medicine is obtained from our thousands Psychology or Beliefs of patients, each of which are monitored in our computerized electronic health record Behaviors designed by Dr. Rader specifically for weight loss medicine. We approach obesity as a complex progressive lifelong medical disease. We evaluate the nutrition, metabolism, behaviors and psychology in our 4 pronged approach to life long weight control
METABOLISM
Despite 500,000 pounds lost, we are most proud of the metabolic and health benefits achieved with Metabolism/ our patients. Diabetics no longer require insulin. Biochemistry High Blood pressure and high cholesterol meds are no longer needed. As medical weight loss specialists we can: 1. Evaluate all of your medical conditions to see if they are contributing to your weight gain; 2. Manage medications as your weight is dropping; 3. Monitor that weight loss is fat loss not muscle mass loss (muscle loss often happens with fad programs like HCG); 4. Prescribe, when needed, only FDA approved effective and safe medication. We are the physicians doctors and nurses see for medical weight control.
Many of our teenage patients are now within normal weight ranges in their class not the heaviest. This allows them to shed the social stigma of excess weight.
NUTRITION
Nothing works long term if you can’t understand it AND stick with it. At IWL Nutrition although our program is scientifically based, we teach nutrition in easy to understand real people terms. Do you know what a protein is? Do you know what your daily protein needs are and how to meet them? How can you possibly have a good nutrition day the same day your kids or grand kids have birthday cake and ice cream? We share real life answers for real life needs.
BEHAVIORS
The things we DO and DON’T DO. Heading into the toughest nutritional time of year, let us share our program’s approach to a holiday. We do not teach any complex Behaviors formula for nutritional holiday planning except: keep it a holi-'day' not a holiweekend or a holi-season. Pumpkin pie on Thanksgiving Thursday is a holiday food. The rest of the weekend it is junk food. Peppermint canes on December 15th are junk candy not a holiday treat. With rare exceptions, this simple approach will help you maintain your weight Halloween to January 2. This is an example of the manageable real life approach we teach that helps our patients maintain their weight control for a lifetime.
PSYCHOLOGY
We investigate and monitor the psychological contributing factors and the benefits of weight control. Doctor, I now feel good about myself. Doctor, my teenagers saw their mother in a bathing suit for the first time. Doctor, I am no longer ashamed to undress in front of my spouse. Doctor, I can tie my shoes and not lose my breath.
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HEALTHY IDAHO NOVEMBER 2012
Psychology or Beliefs
Don’t “WEIGHT” any longer. www.idahoweightloss.com 208.343.3652 Healthy-Idaho.com