Weight Loss

Carrying extra weight puts a strain on your body and increases your chance for a number of detrimental health conditions, such as:
● Type 2 diabetes● High cholesterol● Stroke● Heart disease● Osteoarthritis● High blood pressure● Depression● Sleep apnea● Liver disease● Kidney disease
In addition, excess pounds are a common cause of joint and chronic pain.
Learn about the between being overweight and sleep apnea.

The medical weight loss program at Rapha Health and Wellness gives you a better chance of losing weight and maintaining a healthy weight for two essential reasons:

● Medical Supervision
Your weight loss program begins with a review of your medical and weight loss history, a physical exam, and in most cases, blood work. This allows your provider to identify and treat hormonal imbalances that would sabotage your efforts. They also diagnose chronic health conditions that need treatment and monitoring while you lose weight.

● Motivation and Support
Having personal support from a team that cares about your success makes the difference between achieving your goals and giving up. The team at Rapha Health and Wellness gives you information and encouragement. They also hold you accountable by monitoring your progress.

Your program begins with a weight loss assessment. Your provider talks with you about your eating habits, any previous efforts to lose weight, and the emotional issues and ingrained habits that contribute to overeating.
For the next step, you set your weight loss goal, and your provider helps determine the calorie limits you need to follow to reach your goals in a healthy time frame. Your obesity management plan may include:
● Meal planning● Nutritional counseling● Behavioral modification● Vitamins and supplements● Weight loss medication management● Metabolism boosters● Exercise recommendations● Behavioral modification
The team at Rapha Health and Wellness believes that a healthy gut builds the foundation for your overall health, including your weight. In fact, the bacteria in your gut influence energy metabolism and regulate your appetite, fat storage, and sugar metabolism. Dr. Edokpayi recommends steps you can take to heal and restore your gut bacteria. If you’re ready to lose weight, call Rapha Health and Wellness or book an appointment online today.

It depends on how much weight you have to lose and the details of your individual plan. Everyone starting a weight-loss plan with Dr. Edokpayi begins with a comprehensive consultation at one of the offices in Houston or Sugar Land, Texas. Once you begin your program, she may have you return for follow-up meetings on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis. For help losing weight and hope for a healthy future, call Nneka Edokpayi, MD, at Rapha Health and Wellness or use the online booking tool.

This lipotropic agent helps break down the fat during metabolism in our body. These are also called fat-burning injections. The injection helps to cut down layers of fat, but it doesn’t happen instantly or magically. It requires time to proceed and initiate the metabolic process. 
The Methionine “M” helps to mobilize and eliminate abnormal fat deposits. The vitamins in the injections boost energy by keeping the metabolism high as I and C are a powerful combination for fat filtering. 
Inositol or “I” regulates the hormones and insulin levels, keeping your mood more stable and controlling your hunger level too. 
Choline, the “C,” metabolizes the fats and sends them to the bloodstream for further use after breaking them down into simpler components. Enhancing your metabolism helps to reduce the assimilated fat. 
This combination conserves mental health, and it is helpful to improve the feelings of depression.

With a very low-calorie diet, the physicians add MIC injections to amplify a patient’s weight loss experience. Since the weight loss due to the MIC is concerned with releasing much of the fat into the body. The lipotropic injection helps to move fat out of the liver. Some accelerated hormone-based weight loss programs use MIC injections with associated fat-burning compounds such as cyanocobalamin. MIC injections are often called Lipo- B and Lipo-C. Lipo C is similar to B except it contains L-Carnitine which aids in burning fat faster.

You may face some underlying health conditions due to obesity. A simple blood test is helpful to check diabetes and thyroid disorders. You should not take diet pills if you have:
● Heart disease● Glaucoma● Liver disease● Hyperthyroidism
The food and drug administration has cleared the use of these diet suppressants tablets and injections for short-term use of 12 weeks or fewer. You may take these medications for an indefinite period if your health care provider approves.

If you are struggling to lose weight or having trouble with maintaining weight, your doctor can help. Here at Rapha Health And Wellness as well as at RHW Medspa we could prescribe multiple individualized health plans including Phentermine and MIC injections as a part of your weight-control program. We are weight loss doctors in both Sugar Land and Houston. We can help you start your weight loss journey now. We also work with a nutritionist to help you achieve your weight loss goals.