Non-Surgical Weight Loss Options

SSM Health offers a healthy variety of non-surgical treatments to help you achieve your weight-loss goals. Whether you need to make long-term lifestyle changes or small habit adjustments, our specially-trained team will support you on your journey to wellness.

Our physicians, dieticians and weight-loss professionals are dedicated to helping you take advantage of diet plans and nutrition and wellness programs that are designed to meet your specific needs. We will provide helpful guidance through every step of these proven programs.

Depending on your goals, you may benefit from one or more of the following programs:

Non-Surgical Weight Loss Programs in St. Louis

SSM Health Weight Management Services at DePaul Hospital - St. Louis offers a non-surgical weight loss program individualized to each patient. During your initial consultation, you will meet with a bariatrician board certified in obesity medicine and have a full medical evaluation. You will be prescribed a low-calorie diet that is medically safe for weight loss and provided a meal plan to help you achieve your short- and long-term weight loss goals. Our team will then tailor the remainder of the program based on the your needs. Your program may include the following elements.

Patients can meet one-on-one with the bariatrician every 6-7 weeks or as needed for follow up visits. These visits may be covered by insurance (with a specialist copay) or self-pay.

Patients can meet one-on-one with a registered dieticians to further individualize the recommended meal plan.

Behavior modification has been proven to not only help patients lose weight faster, but also help keep it off. SSM Health Weight Management Services Behavior Modification classes meet weekly for one hour and focus on the skills needed for successful weight loss (such as how to set up an environment up for success, reducing stress, how to navigate social events and holidays, how to best deal with hunger, etc.). Patients also participate in a weekly weigh-ins before class begins to add an extra accountability factor to their program. Classes are $100 per month.

Patients can schedule exercise sessions for $25 per session with a Health Educator and Certified Personal Trainer for a workout designed around their goals.

For patients who need support and direction with exercise to help increase their physical activity, a Health Educator and Certified Personal Trainer will meet one-on-one to develop a work out plan based on their goals. A consultation costs $25.

Get Started

To get started with our program, please complete and return a patient packet. Then one of our health educators will contact you to schedule your initial consultation. Please call 314-344-6579 or email Jessica Perkins if you have additional questions.

Which Non-Surgical Weight Loss Option is Right for You?

We offer structured-diets, medically-managed weight-loss and out-patient procedures, all of which are supported by a combination of behavior modification counseling, dietary visits, medications, exercise and wellness instruction. Get started today!

Depending on your goals, you may benefit from one or more of the following programs:

  • Nutrition & Wellness: Special eating and exercise programs designed by licensed dieticians and exercise physiologists.
  • Weight Loss Medications 

POWER Program

Weight loss is a journey. You are unique and have your own needs. We know this is only the beginning of your journey. You have your own goals, your own motivators and you know what matters to you. Let us help you get there.

The POWER (Preoperative Weight Loss, Exercise and Risk Reduction) program will address your needs from a holistic and multi-dimensional approach. You will learn tools and skills to make changes that matter to you.

Over a 12-week period, you will meet with a physician to discuss where you are and where you hope to go. You will meet with the SSM Health Ripon Wellness Center team both individually and with a group to learn and perfect your skills. You will join a community that will provide support and help you make changes that will stick.

This one-of-a-kind program includes an SSM Health Ripon Wellness Center membership, six classes and personalized coaching for $100. The office visits will be billed through your insurance plan. Be sure to ask about additional benefits to participating in the POWER program.

The POWER program is a personalized journey. While we know that there is no “quick fix,” we are here to help you with your goal to build long-lasting and lifelong knowledge for a healthier life.

For more information, call 920-926-8500.

  • Nutrition & Wellness: Special eating and exercise programs designed by licensed dieticians and exercise physiologists.
  • Weight Loss Medications 
  • Behavior modification counseling

 

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