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The Ideal Way to Work with a Primary Care Physician
Medical Weight Loss Program
Where are you in your weight journey?
A lifetime can be spent battling emotional and physical hunger.
Battling your hunger is a losing strategy. Our work together is about building and adopting a philosophy around food and eating that is transformative and joyful. The more complex your issues with weight and eating seem to you, the more strongly I encourage us to work together.
How much of your precious focus is consumed by thoughts relating to food and your weight?
The most common answer my patients give is 60-80%. Imagine no longer being consumed by these worries or concerns.
Binge eating or compulsive overeating can be healed.
Compulsive overeating or binge eating are deeply painful and unsettling behaviors. They do not reflect indulgence, gluttony, or an abundance of joy, but rather a powerful pathway of emotional hunger that always leads to a painful dead-end. Healing from these behaviors is liberating and life-transformative, and it begins with the essential clarity gleaned within a structured and supportive program.
This process is about restoring joy in eating while optimizing your weight and metabolic health.
Working with your biology in this journey means that you should expect to emerge from it with a more perfect and refined sense of joy from food than that with which you entered. It means that the process must enhance your experience of joy from food, as it guides you to lose weight.
Stop being Driven by an Erratic Hunger Drive
Free Yourself from the Shackles of your Weight Concerns
Your hunger is comprised of two types, both physical and emotional. Picture a vessel holding the totality of this hunger. Your current hunger supports your current weight.
We must drain both types of hunger to a level that permanently supports your optimal weight.
Work with Dr. Lichtash Directly
Work with me at every session through a structured program that is tailored to fit your lifestyle. I specialize in treating patients who have b teach you the essential science behind resetting your weight set point, and the approach that will allow you to phase out your emotional hunger. I help uncover your barriers to weight loss through my unique coaching approach. Reframe and reset your understanding of how to manage your weight and how to joyfully end overeating.
Complex Cases of Emotional and Physical Hunger
Most of my patients seek my care after partaking in one or several prior weight loss methods, including calorie-restricted diets, commercial weight loss programs, overeaters anonymous, bariatric surgery, and psychological therapy. I have developed my approach as the last stop in the search for a solution to weight loss concerns. By developing an approach that supports change from the "inside-out," I assure that you are the driver of your own transformative process.
Taking Control of Your Metabolic Health
Being diagnosed with obesity, prediabetes, type 2 diabetes, fatty liver, heart disease, obstructive sleep apnea or any weight-related disease can be life-altering. The focus of my program is to help you regain your health, gain the essential insight into your behavior that has been keeping you from success in previous attempts at weight loss, and reduce your need for any unnecessary medications.
Learn the Philosophy for Joyful Weight Loss, Practice it, and Thrive
Learn techniques to effectively, happily, and sustainably make changes to reverse or control your weight and metabolic risk. You will find my program a very supportive environment with a tailored approach to fit your specific history with weight.
Pioneering Approach in Treating Type 2 Diabetes
If you have Type 2 Diabetes I will work with you through this program to try to your reverse insulin resistance and decrease or eliminate your need for medication. This can be life-changing as you will help yourself prevent the long-term complications of Type 2 Diabetes. Click to read my publication.
Addressing Barriers to Change
I help you through my unique, proprietary coaching approach, combined with the most cutting-edge science to help you achieve permanent weight loss.
Key Features of the Program
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2-hour initial comprehensive visit. This includes an assessment of your weight history and your metabolic health status, and a deep dive into the strategy to correct your physical and emotional hunger.
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Medication management by Dr. Lichtash, including a discussion of appropriateness of weight loss medications as an adjunct to our work together.
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Accessibility to Dr. Lichtash once you are established as her patient. She is committed to seeing you through her program and helping you achieve your goals.
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Collaboration with your primary care physician.
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Approach specifically tailored to your needs
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Avoid calorie counting. Be guided by the science of weight loss.
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Reduce your hunger in a sustainable way
Read about the Experiences of Dr. Lichtash's Patients
"I have lost and gained the same 30 pounds for my entire adult life. Exhausted, and recently diagnosed as insulin resistant, I made an appointment to meet with Dr. Lichtash - a recommendation from a colleague of hers at Cedars-Sinai. I had low expectations, based on previous attempts to get to the root of my weight issues, but I was curious to meet a doctor who actually specialized in metabolic health. My decision to keep the appointment has been life changing.
Dr. Lichtash is equal parts medical doctor and therapist. Having previously sought out therapy for a short list of concerns, primary of which was weight related, I was relieved to realize that she was going to marry the mental with the physical in an attempt to unlock the coveted key to healthy weight loss. Dr. Lichtash was able to explain the physiology of metabolic health in a way that made sense while at the same time addressing the psychology of why we eat - physical hunger vs. emotional hunger. It was as if a giant lightbulb went off in my head!
I have been seeing Dr. Lichtash for three months and have enjoyed each and every day of my weight management journey. She is compassionate, smart, funny and sincere in her desire to see me succeed. My only regret is that I did not have her in my corner much earlier in my life. She is a treasure."
-R.T.
"My experience with Dr. Lichtash has been life changing. She has guided me in such a way that all the previous weight loss plans seem like coverups as to what it is to shift my view and attitude towards myself, and caring for me is now part of my lifestyle. I love how caring and supporting she is and her teaching skills are incredible. Her method is not about seeing the light at the end of the tunnel but walking in the light with a focus on my heart's desires."
-N.W.
"Dr. Lichtash IS GREAT!! My mom has had diabetes and an obesity problem for 20 years before I found Dr Lichtash last year. After her help in adjusting my mom's diet and lifestyle, she was finally able to reverse her diabetes and reduce medications she'd been taking for years! HIGHLY RECOMMEND to anyone who has diabetes or has a loved one who has a diabetes problem."
-G.J.