Services & Products
What you actually receive as a patient here — starting with the part that matters most.
Specific dietary education
The most important product you will receive from this office is specific dietary information and instruction, tailored to you.
You will hear no buzzwords. There are no gimmicks and no fads here, and you will not be told to “eat right, exercise, and get a hold of yourself.” That advice is useless precisely because it is not specific, and everyone has already heard it.
What you get instead is concrete: what to eat, how much, when, what to do about the situations that reliably derail you, and why each of those answers is what it is. It is delivered one on one, by a clinician, and revisited at every follow-up.
Why this comes first: the prescription helps with hunger while you are taking it. The education is what determines whether the weight stays off after you stop.
Covered in your instruction
- A balanced deficit eating plan built around your actual life
- Portion and composition — what a serving really is
- Eating out and fast food, which the intake form asks about for a reason
- Cravings: what triggers yours and what to do when they hit
- Behavior modification techniques
- An activity level that is realistic for you today, not aspirational
- What maintenance looks like once you reach goal weight
Appetite suppressant therapy
A very effective appetite suppressant medication, prescribed for patients who qualify. Your health care professional will go over exactly what is prescribed, and why, at your visit.
Appetite suppressants, prescribed properly
Medication is a tool inside a supervised program. It is not the program, and it is not handed out on request.
Appetite suppressant labeling reflects short-term studies — generally up to twelve weeks — at the doses stated on the label. As a bariatric physician, Dr. Campbell has found these medications helpful for periods well beyond twelve weeks, and at times in doses above those suggested in the labeling, based on the literature, longer-term studies, the recommendations of university-based investigators, and his own clinical experience.
That usage has not been studied as systematically as the labeled usage, which is exactly why it is discussed with you openly and why your consent is documented. You decide whether you are willing to accept the risks in exchange for the help the medication may give.
Your continuing to receive the medication depends on your progress in weight reduction and maintenance, and on your reporting any significant medical problem you think may be related to the program as soon as reasonably possible.
Vitamin B12 injections
B12 is one of the most popular things we offer, and you no longer have to come in for it.
Vitamin B12 injections are favoured by many physicians to give patients an energy boost, and our patients ask for them by name. The normal arrangement now is that you give the injection yourself, or someone close to you gives it — and we ship it to you in special mailers.
That is not a compromise. It works out more economical than coming in for each one, and it removes the drive from something you may want every few weeks.
- Shipped in mailers made for the purpose
- Every shipment insured
- Tracking number emailed the moment it goes out
- We show you exactly what to do before you start
Ask at your visit whether B12 makes sense for you. If you would rather have it done here, you are welcome to book an in-person visit at any time.
Everything comes from this office
Medication and B12 are dispensed by us.
Medication can be taken or shipped one, two, or three months at a time — your choice, and you can change it whenever you like.
Computerized body composition analysis
Scale weight alone is a poor guide to what is happening in a body. At your workup we run a computerized body composition analysis alongside your vital signs, so we have a real baseline to work from.
You will also be asked for recent lab values from your primary care provider. If you do not have current results, we give you a lab request you can take to the lab of your choice.
- Vital signs at every in-office visit
- Computerized body analysis at workup
- Lab values reviewed by the clinician before therapy decisions
- Progress compared against your own baseline, not a population average
Why we measure
The results we are obtaining are gratifying, and they are gratifying because they are tracked. After roughly ten percent of total body weight comes off, patients experience real health and quality-of-life benefits — and from there it keeps getting better.
Knowing precisely where you started is what lets us tell you, honestly, whether the plan is working or needs to change.
Maintenance
Many of our patients have reached their goal weight and stayed there on a very reasonable and successful maintenance program. That is the part of this work we are proudest of, because it is the part most programs never get to.
Maintenance is not the absence of a plan. It is a different plan, with different targets and a different visit rhythm, and we build it with you when you get there.
Referral and buddy credits
Ask about our ongoing incentive programs, including referral credits and buddy discounts.
What have you got to lose — except the weight?
Call the office during business hours, or send a text any time — we pick messages up and get back to you.