The Washington Center for Weight Management and Research offers a comprehensive approach to healthy, long-term weight loss and management based on sound scientific knowledge and clinical experience.Each member of our clinical team (physician, psychotherapists, dietitians) collaborates with you to design and implement an individualized approach. Ongoing groups offer a supportive setting for insight, enhanced motivation and action.

Our approach is a comprehensive mind/body program utilizing a multi-specialty team approach to weight management that draws on the latest scientific research and years of clinical experience. Our expertise is focused on empowering patients to take control and tap into their inherent capacity to improve health and well being. Despite the strong biological predisposition to the development and protection of the overweight state, environmental and psychological factors play a major role in the management of weight. Our lifestyle approach draws on an integrative model of weight management and addresses all aspects of health, including medical, nutritional, behavioral and psychological wellness.

• Medical management
• Individualized nutrition plans
• Individualized emotional and behavioral support
• Group education and support

We are dedicated to helping our patients who struggle with overeating, weight loss, and weight management to take control and transform discouraging patterns into healthier eating, greater energy and sustained weight loss.

• Improvements in blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar
• Better sleep and reduced sleep apnea
• Greater energy and sense of well being
• Improved fitness, stamina and mobility
• Greater self-confidence
• Development of realistic goals for weight loss and maintenance

*The actual amount of weight you lose will depend on many factors including age, sex, height, percentage overweight, gender, readiness, etc. We encourage you to view this program more broadly than the number of pounds lost. Depending on your selected dietary approach, an average weight loss of 2-4 lbs./week is typical.

• Directed Path: A formula based approach that limits choices and allows you to temporarily step away from food safely. This path is most appropriate for those with a large amount of weight to lose or who have medical conditions necessitating weight loss. We have chosen Optifast™ - a high protein, nutritionally complete formula that has been used successfully for more than 30 years.
• Guided Path: A combined food and formula (Optifast™) approach that lets you plan a meal each day based on your needs-creating both structure and flexibility to your management plan.
• Self-Directed Path: A weight loss plan designed in collaboration with our nutritionist to meet your specific medical and nutritional needs. This path is ideal for those who want to learn to manage food through weekly nutritional, behavioral and psychological support.
• Sustaining Path: Hurrah! You are here and we are too! A flexible plan for weight maintenance that provides ongoing coaching sessions to reinforce the tools and skills learned to help you face life's daily challenges.