If you’re equally tired of starving yourself through fad diets and being overweight, it’s time to make a change. This year, instead of simply resolving to “lose weight,” consider that such an important goal isn’t something you should leave to chance or to “willpower.”
In fact, when it comes to sustainable and healthy weight loss that you can maintain for life, willpower doesn’t even enter into the equation. Instead, your medical weight loss team helps you develop a new relationship with food, your weight, and your health.
Dr. Kimberly Bolling and our staff at our Bowie, Maryland, office give you the support you need to make your important resolution last for years to come. We don’t want you to suffer to lose a few inches; we want you to enjoy healthy eating and a healthy waistline for life.
Is a medical weight-loss program the right New Year’s resolution for you? Here’s why it might be.
The old approach of modifying calories-in to calories-out to create weight loss doesn’t work. And you’re a living, walking testament to that fact. So is almost everyone else around you.
The problem, in a nutshell, is that your body is smarter than any calorie-restriction diet. In fact, your body’s always one step ahead of you. When you engage in heavy calorie restriction, your body senses the lack of food and assumes that you’re in a famine.
To overcome the lack of calories you take in, your body goes into an energy-preserving mode, so it doesn’t burn as many calories. That’s why it’s hard to lose weight: Your body’s holding onto that extra fat to keep you from starving.
In addition, over the years or decades, you’ve previously trained your body to store excess calories as fat. So, as soon as you lose the weight and start to eat again, your body reverts to its default setting, which is to store as many calories as fat as possible.
Between doctors, athletes, and influencers, every time you look at your phone, you’re bombarded with the latest “research” that proves the efficacy of a new diet. It also disproves the efficacy of the one that was popular last week.
Whatever approach you take to food, weight loss, and healthy weight management, it should be backed by science. It also has to work for you — both in terms of weight loss and in terms of your lifestyle.
A “diet” won’t work unless it can become your diet for life. That means you must change your relationship with food, add in a whole new array of healthy foods, and feel comfortable and sated as you lose and then maintain a healthy weight.
Does just reading this blog and wondering how you’re going to find the right diet and lifestyle make you feel like throwing in the towel? You’re not alone. That’s the point. You don’t have to be alone. We can help you through it.
Medical weight loss removes the blame and the need for that ever-elusive willpower. Medical weight loss has nothing to do with what you read on the web, and everything to do with you as a unique biological being.
Your journey starts with an in-depth medical exam, in which Dr. Bolling evaluates your overall health, your weight loss goals, and your food preferences. She also looks at your fitness level before designing your exercise regimen.
If you have a significant amount of weight to lose, she may recommend GLP-1 agonists or other medications that increase satiety and jumpstart fat burning. She also works with you to develop new habits that strengthen and nourish your body.
Although you may have to go through brief periods of calorie restriction, you won’t feel like you’re starving. You don’t maintain those for long, either. The important thing is to focus your diet on the protein you need to build muscle and power your brain, and the fiber and nutrients you need for gut health and overall well-being.
To make your journey easier — and delicious — Dr. Bolling recommends the physician-designed Ideal Protein plan. This ketogenic diet makes it easier than ever to get your daily dose of protein while minimizing carbs. You have meal plans, prepared meals, and healthy snacks.
You go through three phases in your medical weight-loss journey:
Resolve to make losing weight and getting healthier easier than ever in 2026 by calling us today at 301-352-0090 for a weight-loss consultation. You can also click here to fill out our appointment form.
