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How Primary Care Physicians in Tampa Help Patients with Weight Loss and Nutrition

Typing “medical weight loss in Tampa” or “nutritional counseling near me” into your Internet browser might help you find a healthcare provider specializing in weight-management-related diet and nutritional counseling. However, you’ll likely find that a primary care physician offers the most effective and healthy results. Additionally, a personalized primary care physician uses a patient-centric approach to proactively address each patient’s unique health profile based on specific medical needs, lifestyle, health goals, and ongoing health monitoring. Thus, weight loss and nutrition become integral to your overall healthcare when you use a primary care doctor to help manage them.

Tampa, Florida’s Health + Glow’s primary care clinic offers patients personalized medical weight loss as a distinct program and as an add-on service in its new Elite Care program. With both, Health + Glow’s medical professionals customize a holistic weight loss plan based on the patient’s unique medical history, overall health, lifestyle, and weight loss goals. In addition to ongoing support and guidance, we provide patients with various specialized weight loss services, including nutritional counseling, fitness classes, and weight loss drugs, tailored to meet each patient’s specific needs.

Benefits of Weight Loss with Primary Care in Tampa

Your primary care physician in Tampa will play a crucial role in your weight loss journey by providing medical guidance, developing personalized strategies, and ensuring positive results through ongoing guidance and support. Your weight loss journey with Health + Glow lead physician Dr. Swapna M. Kallikadan begins with a health assessment that helps steer an appropriate and healthy approach to weight loss and identify potential physiological impediments to losing weight. This initial assessment typically includes:

  • Review of medical history, existing health issues, metabolism, and medications that might influence weight.
  • Analysis of body mass index and weight distribution.
  • Screening for weight-related health issues like diabetes, thyroid disorders, and hormonal issues.
  • Review of eating habits, physical activity, stress levels, sleep patterns, and lifestyle issues.
  • A complete physical examination and other diagnostic testing, as warranted.

Based on this initial assessment, Health + Glow’s weight-loss team creates a personalized weight-loss plan that may include the following components:

  • A nutritional dietary plan to promote weight loss while optimizing patient health.
  • Exercise guidance that accounts for the patient’s physical capabilities, fitness level, medical conditions, and weight loss goals.
  • Behavioral and psychological support as needed to address emotional eating and motivational challenges.
  • Prescription to FDA-approved Semaglutide, as warranted.
  • Referrals to medical specialists like endocrinologists, bariatric surgeons, psychologists, physical therapists, or cardiologists if the assessment identifies a medical need.

Health + Glow’s weight management program focuses on long-term success by conducting regular checkups to assess results and adjust the patient’s personalized plan as needed. If a patient reaches a plateau before reaching their weight loss goals, we identify any emergent impediments and revise the plan to help the patient overcome them. With a multi-faceted, holistic approach, our medical weight loss program in Tampa has proven highly effective at overcoming distinct weight loss challenges posed by genetics, metabolism, physical limitations, medications, willpower, and lifestyle choices.

Optimize Your Health and Weight Management with Elite Care

For the best bang for your weight-loss buck, consider joining our Elite Care program, which provides patients with personalized medical services based on their health profile, genetic background, medical needs, existing conditions, lifestyle, and health goals. Elite Care is a primary care healthcare model undergoing widespread adoption by the nation’s healthcare providers due to its cost-effectiveness in maintaining optimal patient health.

Elite Care membership includes unlimited office visits and telehealth appointments, same- or next-day urgent care appointments, and convenient prescription medication management. If hospitalized, Health + Glow works with hospital staff to ensure that all of the patient’s healthcare needs are met and that treatment is effectively working towards the healthiest outcome. As an add-on to Elite Care, your medical weight loss program will be integral to your overall health management plan, enhancing your health and weight loss results.

Higher-tier Elite Care memberships provide patients with additional benefits, and members can sign up for other add-on programs, including sexual health, cardiovascular care, IV hydration therapy, and migraine control.

Experience a Three-Month Trial Run of Elite Care in Tampa

Join our Elite Care program on a trial run to experience the superior personalized primary care Health + Glow provides its members. By joining today, you can commit to a three-month trial to ensure we meet your healthcare needs perfectly. With a commitment to maintain our low patient-to-physician ratio and provide the highest quality primary care, membership numbers are limited.

For Expert Primary Health Care in Tampa, Contact Health + Glow

Health + Glow is committed to offering patients the best in personalized primary care in Tampa. In addition to primary care, our facility includes a medical spa and IV therapy station to provide patients with a one-stop option to cover the full range of health and beauty treatments. To secure the best in personalized healthcare services in Tampa, schedule an appointment today.