Edison Weight Loss Programs
for Achieving a Healthy Weight

Losing weight does not have to be a struggle, and the Edison weight loss programs at Backsmart Wellness Center help ensure it is not. Rather than focusing on strict diets and deprivation, our center instead focuses on the nutrition and activity levels your body needs to help you achieve and maintain a healthy weight. Our professional staff includes a registered dietician for nutritional counseling, a physical therapist in the office providing custom exercise programs, an acupuncturist focusing on weight loss, as well as certified hypnotherapy for weight management.

Weight Loss Programs Reduce Health Risks

The first priority at our Edison chiropractic and wellness center is to determine what your healthy weight should be based on your age, gender and any specific health conditions. Carrying around excess weight can increase the risk of certain health issues, such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and heart disease. The increased stress on your body can also contribute to pain and issues in your lower back. Excess weight pressing down on your spine can result in damage to its structure and symptoms typically associated with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, spinal stenosis, and degenerative disc disease can begin to manifest. Weight loss can reduce the risk of such conditions as well as provide you with more energy, improved respiratory function, and a positive self-image.

Our Edison chiropractor, Dr. Lagana, and our wellness center staff offer four successful routes for losing weight, which can be combined for even more effective results. Our registered dietician can outline a healthy eating plan tailored to your individual needs and goals. Our nutrition counseling ensures you are meeting your daily calorie and nutritional needs and provides healthy eating suggestions. Working one-on-one with our registered dietician not only gives you a chance to receive a tailored eating plan, but it also supplies you with vital information on nutrition basics and lifestyle changes that can best work for you.

Certified hypnotherapy is another service Backsmart Wellness Center offers to help with achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Hypnotherapy has long been successful in helping people break unwanted habits, such as eating when they are not hungry or emotionally charged. Our wellness center's hypnotherapy sessions consist of helping patients enter a calm, relaxed and trance-like state where they are open to suggestions. Such suggestions can serve to modify behavior and perceptions as well as emotions and sensations surrounding eating and food.

Goal visualization is often part of the hypnotherapy sessions at our center, with patients imagining themselves at their target weight, feeling more energized and healthier than they would be with excess pounds. Each session begins with a consultation where we explore your specific goals so the session can be best tailored to meet them. The number of sessions depends on several factors, such as the patient’s receptiveness to hypnotherapy, and we can schedule as many or as few appointments as you need.

In addition to nutrition counseling and hypnotherapy, Backsmart Wellness Center offers acupuncture for weight loss. Acupuncture for weight loss focuses on several points in the human ear that relate to major organs and body parts. These auricular points in the ear relate to the spleen, mouth, hunger point, and endocrine point which affect digestion, over-eating, hunger, and metabolism, respectively. The acupuncturist will focus on these points in the body to increase the circulation of blood and to stimulate the metabolism, thereby promoting weight loss.

Another weight loss option available at our Edison weight loss center is a customized exercise program designed by a physical therapist. We have a physical therapist in our office that will work with you to design a customized exercise plan. The plans are designed to be implemented at home or your gym and are created to maximize weight loss, increase core strength, and build-up muscles. The therapist will create a plan that works with your specific needs and helps you maintain a healthy weight once maximum weight loss is achieved.

All four of these weight loss techniques can be combined or utilized separately, depending on your individual goals. Schedule an appointment with Backsmart Wellness Center to start your tailored program today.