Dr. Darm, Medically-suvervised Weight Loss by AMNW

Dr. Darm, Medically-supervised Weight Loss (Weight Loss Management Program)
AMNW show
May 23, 2011

Thanks for watching AMNW on this Monday morning. Unresolved personal issues can often stand in the way of serious weight loss. Here’s Janice Bangs with more.

I am with Dr. Darm this morning at Aesthetic Medicine to talk about their weight management program. What is involved in your weight management program?
Our weight management program is medically-supervised weight loss program and it’s very carefully monitored, it’s very aggressive. The average patient loses 40 to 60 lbs. and many of the patients go away from food, take a food holiday for a while and go to the shakes. It’s extremely effective. The reason is because people lose their appetite as their fasting as if they’re doing it fast. And so it’s not unusual to lose 100 lbs or even more in this program.

And we do have patient Patsy Marquardt this morning. Patsy, what brought you to Aesthetic Medicine?
I had reached a point in my life where I just felt a completely down, the depression, not feeling like I really belong in the society. I’d go on a trip in an airplane and I’d have to be embarrassed to ask for the seatbelt extender. I mean, heaven forbid, going to the restroom and fitting to the door. And going in to a restaurant then wondering where they’re going to sit me, am I gonna fit in that booth and just the embarrassment of all that I think I kind a hit me at a point where “No, I’m not to take this anymore.” I value myself too much.

You also had some personal experience that contributed to you not been able to get below a certain weight point.
Yes, I did. When I was 19, 20 years old I was raped and had some sexual abused after that. Then I gained the weight, kind a protection type of a thing regardless of my family and my loving husband, it just consumed me. And so I decided that I would get some other therapy and the 200 pounds was like when you got below that I would feel attractive and sexy and that was very scary for me, it was a protective mechanism. And between Dr. Darm, Nancie and Marge just compassion and their concern for me and my outside therapy, I’ve been able to get passed that point and it has been a just like great feeling to feel within myself that I am worthy of this. I am worthy of looking like this and that’s been a big load lifted off my shoulders.

And how much weight have you lost overall?
I have lost overall a 142 lbs. I’m not finished yet so I’m not in maintenance yet but the classes I attend with Nancie and Marge getting to this point are fantastic and the help from the other people, the sharing that we do is just remarkable. I can’t say enough about the people here.

And that is an incredible testimony. Dr. Darm, do you see other patient like Patsy?
Absolutely, we are very supportive, we acknowledge these issues, we ask them to get special counseling for their special needs but a lot of people like Patsy have done fabulously here.

And I believed that Patsy is a great testament to the weight management program here at Aesthetic Medicine so call (503) 697 9777 for your free consultation with Dr. Darm and his staff.

Visit www.drdarm.com for more information about the medically-supervised weight loss program at Aesthetic Medicine.