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While any licensed physician can offer a medical weight loss program to patients, members of the ASBP have been exposed, through and extensive continuing medical education program, to specialized knowledge, tools and techniques to enable them to design specialized medical weight loss programs tailored to the needs of individual patients and modify the programs, if needed, as the treatment progresses. ASBP members are uniquely equipped to treat overweight and obesity and associated conditions.

A medical weight loss specialist has done extra studying, training and testing to become board certified in weight loss medicine. As a specialist in weight loss, weight loss with a Bariatrician is a total program, not just in weight loss but also in weight maintenance. Bariatrians are experienced in helping overweight patients in the personal highs and lows during a weight loss program. They are experienced in the roadblocks to becoming successful in controlling the disease called overweight and obesity.

There is no magic diet pill! Prescription weight management medications or appetite suppressants aloe are not effective enough to enable you to achieve your ideal weight loss goal. To reach a desirable, healthy weight and to control future weight gain, you need to learn to apply the tools we teach for long-term success.

A bariatrician is a licensed physician (Doctor if Medicine [MD] or a Doctor of Osteopthy [DO]) who, as a member of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians (ASBP), has received special training in bariatric medicine, the medical treatment of overweight and obesity and its associated conditions. Bariatricians address the obese patients with a comprehensive program of diet and nutrition, exercise, lifestyle changes and, when indicated, the prescription of appetite suppressants and other appropriate medications.

A physician-supervised medical weight loss program can be the safest and wisest way to lose weight and maintain the loss. Overweight and obesity are frequently accompanied by other medical conditions, such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, among others. A bariatric physician is trained to detect and treat these conditions, which might go undetected and untreated in a non-medical weight loss program.

Dr. Stephen Sudderth and the entire staff at Premier Medical Weight Loss of Mississippi are committed to offering a comprehensive and individualized approach. Teaching each patient about a healthy approach to weight loss, while offering the very best strategies bariatric medicine has to offer is our number one goal.

Dr. Sudderth is able to proscribe FDA approved weight loss medication to eligible patients in combination with a reduced calorie diet, behavior modification, and comprehensive nutritional education. A very important part of our program is our partnership with the patients to achieve long term, healthy eating habits through comprehensive dietary education, and helping teach about behavior modification and lifestyle changes for long term weight loss. We also offer maintenance plans for long term achievement of weight loss. Our patients have unlimited access to all of our resources offered at Premier Medical Weight Loss of Mississippi.

Successful weight loss depends on the lifelong management of the illness of obesity. Remember, obesity is a chronic illness. When other problems in life assume a higher precedence, patients often gain weight. That does not mean they are unsuccessful with their weight problem, it just means they have to refocus and take care of themselves. It is imperative for our entire team of Premier Medical Weight Loss of Mississippi and Dr. Stephen Sudderth to reach out and partner with every patient. We are always available for you!