Losing Weight: It's Different With TWLC

Anyone who has tried losing weight through diet and exercise knows how tough it can be to stick with it. Losing weight and keeping it off isn’t just about eating less and exercising more. There are often other factors that affect weight loss success. Everyone’s weight loss challenges and goals are different. The Total Weight Loss Center at NKCH understands those differences and offers both surgical and nonsurgical weight loss services to meet the needs of each person who walks through the door.

Surgical Weight Loss

NKCH has offered bariatric surgery for over 10 years. Two fellowship-trained surgeons, Keenan Berghoff, MD, and Joshua Mourot, MD, perform three safe, minimally invasive weight loss procedures: gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and modified duodenal switch.

Medical Weight Loss

For some people, surgery isn’t an option. TWLC’s medical weight loss program, led by Breann Kelley, MD, offers an alternative. The program includes:

• Diet and exercise plans tailored to each patient’s specific needs
• Help developing achievable goals
• Medications and supplements

Whether someone chooses surgical or medical weight loss, patients receive support every step of the way. They meet with Amelia Harris, PsyD, a psychologist who specializes in helping people with obesity. Dr. Harris works with patients to understand and address underlying factors that may keep them from losing weight successfully.

The TWLC Difference

TWLC is the only weight loss center in the Northland accredited as a Comprehensive Center by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program. It offers:

• Financial assistance and help with insurance
• Full range of hospital services on-site
• Methods that treat the whole person by focusing on nutrition, mental health and exercise
• Online and in-person support groups
• On-site fitness center and pool with bariatric-specific classes
• Support before, during and after weight loss
• Help maintaining a healthy weight for life

Visit TotalWeightLoss.com to:

• Explore our surgical weight loss and medical weight loss services
• Meet the team
• Register for a free in-person or virtual bariatric surgery seminar
• Request more information about medical weight loss