Make Weight Loss Your New Year’s Resolution

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Texas Medical Wellness & Weight Loss is pleased to offer the residents of Dallas, Plano, Frisco and the surrounding metroplex areas multiple ways to lose weight and become healthier, including the hCG diet. Patients who visit Texas Medical Wellness & Weight Loss will find that there are multiple options available to achieve their New Year’s resolutions of losing weight and keeping it off.

Texas Medical Wellness & Weight Loss is pleased to offer the residents of Dallas, Plano, Frisco and the surrounding metroplex areas multiple ways to lose weight and become healthier, including the hCG diet. Patients who visit Texas Medical Wellness & Weight Loss will find that there are multiple options available to achieve their New Year’s resolutions of losing weight and keeping it off. Holidays are notorious as a time for weight gain, and the New Year brings the perfect opportunity to start off with a medically based plan for weight loss.

The hCG diet, also known as the Simeon protocol, was developed by an English physician in Italy in the 1950’s. He gave daily injections of hCG hormone to obese patients, and kept them on a strict diet protocol of approximately 500 calories per day. In his manuscript “Pounds and Inches,” he described the rapid weight loss experienced by the patients who followed this protocol for 40 days. In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in the protocol, likely due to the recent popularity of compounding pharmacies that make a cream or liquid form of the hCG medication, eliminating the need for daily injections. Drs. Michael and Michele Cavenee at Texas Medical Wellness & Weight Loss find that patients appreciate the non-invasive application of the daily cream, the easy-to-follow weight loss protocol and the steady, rapid loss of fat achieved on the hCG diet.

How does it work? Dr. Simeon believed that the basis of the hCG diet was the hormone’s ability to allow the body to draw needed calories from fat stores, and “reset” the hypothalamus to get rid of carb cravings. In practice, Drs. Cavenee find that patients on hCG are able to stick to a low calorie diet without hunger or cravings, and lose fat preferentially over lean muscle mass.

“Due to the low calorie nature of the diet we repeat the body composition analysis (measurement of the amount of fat versus muscle being lost) on a weekly basis,” according to Dr. Michele Cavenee. “Initially we instructed our patients to follow the strict Simeon protocol, but we were concerned that skipping a morning meal would cause our patients to lose muscle instead of fat. This proved to be the case in a couple of patients, and we quickly modified the diet protocol to include a protein breakfast. With our ‘modified hCG diet’ our patients lose mostly fat and very little muscle mass.” Dr. Cavenee went on to say that “preservation of muscle is the best way to maintain weight loss on a long term basis.” Of course, the true test of any diet is whether or not the results can be maintained. Texas Medical Wellness is committed to ongoing patient education, thus equipping patients with the knowledge necessary to make lasting lifestyle changes with regard to diet and exercise.

About Texas Medical Wellness & Weight Loss

Texas Medical Wellness & Weight Loss is an evidenced-based, physician-run medical weight loss and wellness clinic. The practice specializes in medical weight loss with a focus on losing fat. The doctors offer individualized non-surgical weight loss programs, using appetite suppressants and natural supplements to help boost metabolism, burn fat and lose weight quickly but safely. The practice also offers evaluation of menopausal symptoms and hormone imbalances, using bio-identical hormones for replacement of hormone deficiencies. The practice is run by Dr. Michael Cavenee and Dr. Michele Cavenee and is based in Plano, Texas. For more information, please visit http://texasmedicalwellness.com.

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