Weight Loss and Wellness Center

It’s more than an expanding waistline, 
it’s your life being cut short.

While any excessive weight gain is dangerous to your health, weight around the middle concerns doctors the most. Other serious weight-related problems include diabetes, heart disease, osteoarthritis, asthma and infertility. Fortunately, there is something you can do about it. Our Weight Loss and Wellness Center provides weight management treatments that range from noninvasive, self-directed programs to surgical options.

Weight loss advice is as individual as you are. Everyone metabolizes food differently, and requires an approach specific to their needs. With the complexities of today’s lifestyles, physicians specially trained in bariatric medicine and bariatric surgeries are the quickest and safest routes to reaching and maintaining your goal.

What is a Medical Bariatrician and what can he or she do for me?

• Initial patient work up including medical history, physical examination, laboratory studies and additional testing if needed depending on your medical history.
• Appropriate counseling on diet and nutrition, exercise, behavior modification, and prescription medications if indicated.
• Adequate periodic follow-up and counseling to help you maintain the weight loss that has been achieved.

What type of weight loss surgery is being done here at JMH? What is entailed in the pre and post surgery process? And how do I know I qualify for this surgery?

The weight loss surgery that is done at JMH is the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. This surgery limits food consumption and absorption of calories in the body by creating a small pouch at the top of the stomach and rerouting food so it bypasses a portion of the small intestine.

The majority of diabetics are cured of their diabetes after weight loss surgery. Hypertension, sleep apnea, cardiac and respiratory problems are all markedly improved after weight loss surgery.

• To qualify for the surgery, you need to have a body mass index of 40 or more or between 35-39 with at least 2 health problems related to your obesity that you are being treated for. This corresponds to roughly 100 pounds over your ideal body weight.
• Attend an initial educational seminar.
• Appropriate counseling on pre and post-operative diet, exercise, behavior modification, psychological evaluations, medical and surgical evaluations.

• Attend support group meetings.
• Scheduled follow-up and counseling to help you maintain the weight loss that has been achieved.

Don’t let your weight control you. Let us help you control your weight and improve you health in the process. If you have questions about the Weight Loss and Wellness Center or any of its services, please call (317) 346-3866 (Toll-Free 866-837-0531) or contact us today. Our RN will do a brief intake over the phone and help you determine which path is best for you.