Weight Management

 

At WHP, we help you take that first daunting step towards achieving your weight goal. For many women, being overweight is frustrating and affects not only their health, but how they feel about themselves. This is not just about vanity. It is also about the mental, emotional, and physical health of our patients. Having obesity has been linked to sleep disturbances, diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, heart disease and thirteen types of cancer. Losing weight can dramatically improve your health and sense of self.

Besides diet and exercise, there are many factors that can affect your weight. These include sleep, stress, environment, side effects of medications, adverse childhood events, and genetic predispositions to weight gain. Excess weight is not simply a lack of willpower or due to laziness and it is NOT your fault. 

With modern advances in medicine, we also know more about how specific chemicals in our brain and stomach stimulate and suppress appetite. Studying these chemicals has helped scientists to develop safe and effective medications for weight loss. While not appropriate for everyone, we will help you determine if a medication is right for you. We will work closely with you as we titrate your dosage up or down, depending on how you respond.

 

Menopause and Weight

We are experts at helping women of all ages lose weight and maintain their goal weight. At WHP, we are also menopause specialists. Part of helping you through menopause is helping you maintain or lose weight to achieve optimal health. It is never too late to take control over your health and to feel good about your body!

Hormonal changes of menopause make you more likely to retain weight around your abdomen. Menopausal weight gain is also related to aging, lifestyle and genetic factors. Even sleep disturbances common in menopause affect weight.

 

Membership Program Details

Month 1: 

• Initial in-person 60 minute consult with nurse practitioner Rebecca Callahan includes:
  • • Height, weight, and BMI calculation
    • Waist circumference
    • Blood pressure and heart rate
    • Body composition analysis using our InBody scale 
    • Ordering fasting blood work 
    • Sleep apnea screening 
    • Review of current medications that may cause weight gain
    • Personalized exercise plan 
    • 24 hour diet recall
    • Prescription of weight loss medications if indicated
    • Review of health coaching program
    • Goal setting 
• Weekly follow up telemedicine visits 

 

Months 2-6:  

• Monthly in person or virtual 30 minute consults with our nurse practitioner 
• If taking a controlled substance, must be in-person at least every 3 months
• Includes body composition analysis each month if done in-person

 

Also Included in Membership:

• Monthly group Zoom meetings with nurse practitioner Rebecca Callahan and licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Joseph Wieliczko

 

Optional Extras (not included in cost of membership):

• Virtual mindful eating course with Dr. Wieliczko
• Ongoing Maintenance Program
  • • Every three months
    • 30 minutes each visit
    • Virtual or in person
• Full Health Coaching Program
  • • Accountability: frequent check ins with certified health coach via phone calls
    • Community: private Facebook group and weekly Zoom calls with health coach
    • Education: two books on habits of health, one of which is a guided journal 
    • Simplicity of nutrition: meals delivered to your home monthly

 

Our clinicians, along with our network of clinical partners, such as Dr. Joseph Wieliczko Psy.D., will educate you on all of your options and support you with referrals as needed. Our partners include nutritionists, personal trainers, physical therapists, psychologists, bariatric surgeons, sleep specialists, and meal replacement programs.

 

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ABOUT YOUR CLINICIAN

Rebecca Callahan, MSN, WHNP-BC is a passionate women’s health care nurse practitioner with advanced training in obesity medicine and weight loss. She is also a yoga teacher and mother of three and knows how challenging it can be to lose weight and maintain weight once it is lost. She understands how metabolism, hormones, nutrition, exercise and other factors affect our ability to lose weight. Her patients know her to be compassionate, kind, and nonjudgmental, creating a safe space in which to work collaboratively towards their goals.