LIFESTYLE HEALTH
Weight Loss
We're here to guide you on your weight loss journey, with a personalised plan and continuous support.
LASTING RESULTS
Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight can be challenging, but with the right support, it’s possible. We offer a range of weight loss solutions tailored to your individual needs, all overseen by our experienced private GPs. Whether you’re looking for diet and exercise advice or considering prescription medications or weight loss injections, we'll guide you safely to your goal weight.
Our Weight Loss Approach
We understand weight is influenced by many factors - physical, psychological, social and environmental. So we’ve developed a medical weight loss service built around you. We’ll support you in the safest, most effective way possible with expert care and ongoing monitoring every step of the way.
Better Health Outcomes
Your weight can play a key part in many health conditions and managing it effectively is one of the most powerful steps you can take for your long-term health. Maintaining a healthy weight can slow - and even prevent - the development of problems later in life. It can also reverse some conditions or support a reduction in the medications required to treat them.
Expert GP Guidance
Losing weight is about more than just the number on the scale — it’s about your overall health. Our GPs take a holistic approach, regularly checking your blood work, monitoring your weight loss, and making sure you’re staying healthy throughout the process. With the right support and medical supervision, you can achieve your weight loss goals with confidence.
Nutrition and Exercise
We don’t believe in quick fixes and want to ensure medication is only used when necessary, so our weight loss plans are designed to work alongside lasting lifestyle changes. With crucial input from a wider team - that may include physiotherapists, dietitians and fitness specialists - you’ll have all the expertise you need on-hand to support your journey to better health.
Mounjaro and Wegovy
To be eligible for weight loss injections, your BMI needs to be 30 or above, or 27 or above if you have a weight-related health condition.
For some patients, weight loss injections can be a very effective option. To ensure you get the best possible outcome, we offer both Mounjaro and Wegovy.
Both these jabs work by helping to control your appetite and regulate how your body processes insulin, and we’ll prescribe whichever is best suited to your health profile.
Your Health Profile
Before starting treatment, we carefully assess your overall health, looking at any existing health conditions, medications, medical history and BMI. We also consider how much benefit weight loss could bring, alongside any possible side effects of the treatment. This thorough assessment helps us recommend the most suitable medication and tailor a plan to support long-term success.
Alternatives to weight loss injections
With or without weight loss injections, we’re here to support you on your weight loss journey. Your safety always comes first, so if you’re not medically eligible for injections right now our expert doctors will work closely with you to offer tailored advice towards a successful outcome.
Risk and Benefits
Weight loss injections can be highly effective for some patients. They offer benefits like reduced hunger, better blood sugar control, and steady, sustained weight loss. But they’re not suitable for everyone. Like all medications, they can come with side effects - most commonly nausea or digestive discomfort, and, in rare cases, more serious reactions.
GP Oversight and Monitoring
Under the care of our experienced GPs, we'll conduct regular blood work and carefully monitor your progress on weight loss injections. If you experience any side effects, we’ll make any adjustments needed to keep you safe and comfortable, while ensuring your treatment continues to be effective.
Why Choose The Hove Practice?
Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight can be challenging, but with the right support, it’s possible. We offer a range of weight loss solutions tailored to your individual needs, all overseen by our experienced private GPs. Whether you’re looking for diet and exercise advice or considering prescription medications or weight loss injections, we'll guide you safely to your goal weight.
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Register with Us
We welcome all ages to register with us and you do not have to be living in Brighton & Hove - we support patients from all over the South of England. You are welcome to use us as a one-off or an occasional service as suits you, or for your ongoing regular healthcare provision.
We can register you with The Hove Practice to arrange any of our Health Screening, General Health or Lifestyle Healthcare services. Registration is free and quick and our helpful team are always on hand to help. There's no ongoing obligation for you to use our services and you don't have to live in Brighton and Hove to join us.
As soon as you book a “New Patient” appointment, you will automatically be sent a digital registration form to complete.
Any Questions?
We hope you've found the information you're looking for, but we also know that sometimes it's nice to just talk. If you still have questions we can help with, we'd love to hear from you.
Feel free to drop our team an email at reception@thehovepractice.co.uk or call us on 01273 733830.
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