Weight Management

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Our weight loss program consists of regular office visits with our doctor, Brian Murphy MD, a prescribed appetite suppressant, and a recommended diet.  The doctor will review your health history, current diet and water consumption with you to determine the most appropriate appetite suppressant for YOUR unique needs.

 

We gladly accept cash, Visa, & MasterCard.  We also accept Flexible Spending Account cards.  While we don’t file insurance, we can provide you with a receipt for you to turn into your insurance to go towards your deductible.

 

Our mission is to educate each patient on a healthier lifestyle and provide the motivation needed to start the journey to better health.  We love to see our patients succeeding with their weight loss goals!  Dr. Murphy’s Weight Loss Program is known for successfully helping patients lose weight for over 30 years, but even more importantly, for building and developing long-term relationships with his patients to ensure they maintain the healthy weight they have achieved.  Weight management is a journey.  We realize there are ups and down and want to support our patients with encouragement and the appropriate medically guided response for longterm results.

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Weight-Loss Facts

Normal Weight

Maintaining a normal weight can prevent gastroesophageal reflux and weight related joint conditions.

The Cure

According to the American Medical Association, of the 20 million type 2 diabetics, over half would NOT have this diagnosis, if they would maintain a normal body weight. Most physicians simply TREAT diabetes; Dr. Murphy helps CURE it!

Progesterone

Women typically crave sweets one week before and during their periods due to the increase in progesterone. This hormone causes women to crave sweets and not feel full.

Blood Pressure

The majority of overweight individuals may be able to stop or decrease their blood pressure medication by losing weight.

Reflux

The majority of people who have reflux will find relief when they lose weight.

Stress

Every pound you lose takes 3 pounds of stress off your knees and 6 pounds off your low back.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why do insurance companies not pay for weight loss?

How can stress affect my weight?

Will I gain the weight back when I stop taking the medication?

Do you take walk-in appointments or do you have to schedule?

What are the weight restrictions for the program?

What are the age restrictions?

Can I do the program if I have high blood pressure?

Can I do the program if I have heart related issues?

How long will it take me to get to my goal weight?

How long does an appointment take?

How often do I come?

Is payment due at the time of service?

Is weight loss medication an amphetamine?

Can I take the medication while pregnant or breastfeeding?

Weight Management Posts

I'm not a damn vending machine. Okay, So don't come to my office and expect me to just hand out medicine and push buttons.

February 5, 2024

These physicians and these clinics you go to that are vending machines are making money off your failure. They're doing something wrong with this medicine.

January 29, 2024

Do you want a vending machine to help you lose weight for just a three month during the summer, going to the beach, get into a bathing suit and throw caution to the wind when you get back and put the weight back on?

January 22, 2024

It's okay to choose surgery or weight loss medicines. Either way, we are going to correct the problem. Surgery, though we have to remember, is a little bit more permanent.

January 15, 2024

Surgeons will send them to a weight loss doctor to have a trial of medicines. And a lot of that is not so much because they're concerned about your weight loss.

January 8, 2024

You committed to the surgery. You did not commit to the long term, the long haul. And I'm sorry, it's a little bit on the rough side.

January 1, 2024

I don't look at weight loss as a as a beauty thing. I don't care how much weight you want to lose to look good in a bathing suit. I just don't care. This is all about health.

December 25, 2023

There's a thing that's being debated within the community now, the medical community called Healthy Weight. Is there such a thing as healthy weight?

December 18, 2023

You're better off to have two cheeseburgers than one fish sandwich. That's the myth of weight.

December 11, 2023

You're going to have to put down the mayonnaise and Miracle Whip and the ranch dressing for the rest of your life.

December 4, 2023

Raspberries. 50% fiber. That means if a raspberry has two calories, you can only get one calorie out of them.

November 27, 2023

I think I can explain food addiction and sugar addiction, because that's really what we're speaking of is a high fructose corn syrup addiction. Okay. But there is addictions to other food.

November 20, 2023

There is patients out there that I have seen that are addicted to certain foods, specifically Dr. Pepper. I don't think they quite understand it's not really their fault.

November 13, 2023

90% of the solution to weight is realizing that you have a problem in admitting to that problem. That's that's that's the correction right there.

November 6, 2023

There's nothing wrong with starting over and admitting, “Maybe I don't know everything about weight.” I'm okay with that.

October 30, 2023

I see this all the time with people when they come in and we're struggling and they haven't volunteered a real critical piece of information.

October 23, 2023

I would say there's so much horrible wrong information out there. You do have to forget it.

October 16, 2023

There is not a single soul out there that I cannot help lose weight given the fact that they want to come along for this ride.

October 9, 2023

So in your first visit, I'm going to be taking the fear away. If the fear is your unknown, I am going to sit there for as long as you need me to take the fear away and explain everything to you.

October 2, 2023

So if you're going to make an appointment to see me, we have to let go of the fear. The fear to make changes in your life. This is not a scary thing.

September 25, 2023

If you're ready to forget everything you think you know and take control of your destiny, your future, your weight. Click on this link.

September 18, 2023

A perfect example is physicians. If you are a Medicare provider, you can only charge so much. And every year the federal government takes away a little bit more, and a little bit more, and a little bit more. And this is a real world example of what they've done.

September 11, 2023

They bought the rights to that pen, told Pfizer, quit making your auto inject pen, we're just gonna make the EpiPen. And she took that price and raised it to $660 from like 50 bucks to $650.

September 4, 2023

Well, now you're so depressed because you're taking all these medicines that cost so much money to take care of your high blood pressure, your diabetes, your knees giving out, and your stomach is aching you away. Well, I got an antidepressant for that, you can take that every day for the rest of your life. This is how this thing goes, and it's just discouraging, and it's just almost, you just want to give up, and it's like, why? But there is an alternative.

August 28, 2023

Let's say I'm a big eater, and I spend $10 for breakfast, $10 for lunch. Okay, well, that's $20 a day times 30 days, that's $600.

August 21, 2023

In the weight loss arena right now, the new craze, and it seems like there's a new craze about once every 10 years, is these medications that they still don't truly understand how they work, but they are a medication that was developed for diabetics, and they're in relatively short supply right now. Kind of hard to get, but they are injectable and quite awfully expensive.

August 14, 2023

So Moderna is on track to make a 40% profit this year, thanks to the federal government, thanks to the American taxpayers. I haven't gotten my thank you letter in the mail yet from Moderna for making them so much money this year.

August 7, 2023

This future of healthcare bothers me. You know the access to our health care information, don't like it.

July 31, 2023

Why do insurance companies not pay for people to lose weight? You would think they would. It's the right thing to do. None of them hardly ever will. They'll fight tooth and nail to pay for bariatric surgery. But the question becomes why?

July 24, 2023

They look at a lot of scientific studies when it comes to high fructose corn syrup, and while it is the calories are the same, the United States for some reason, kind of turns a blind eye to the addictive nature and the dangers of this addiction.

July 17, 2023

If it's a gram and it's carbohydrate, it's 3.4 calories. If it's protein, it's 4. If it's a fat, it's 9. Your body does not care where it comes from. That is the only thing it sees.

July 10, 2023

What you need to know is, what is a calorie. Look it up for yourselves, but I'm going to tell you what it is. It's 15 ounces of water heated up one degree Fahrenheit.

July 3, 2023

There are things we can do to combat the hunger and not really have to worry about the calories. That is a real interesting topic and a lot of people don't quite understand what that means. And what we're talking about here is fiber. Fiber is non-digestible carbohydrate.

June 26, 2023

And I've had a lot of people say, well, I just can't give up my soda pop because diet tastes awful. Well, trust me, you start drinking diet soda for a few months, you're eventually going to get used to it.

June 19, 2023

What do primary care doctors say about Phentermine? Oh man, I've heard a lot of it.

June 12, 2023

You started releasing adrenaline the minute you started running down the road and it just takes about 5-6 miles to run out of your sugar. Now you're going to burn fat the rest of your journey.

June 5, 2023

People have looked at other things, waist-hip ratios, neck circumferences, abdominal circumferences, and I think these are all tools we can use, but still, at the end of the day, the body mass index is a relatively close judgment, but it's not exactly precise.

May 29, 2023

It's a really interesting study, and it was done in 1976. And it's in the Guinness Book of World Records. How long can a human body go without eating?

May 22, 2023

The more weight you carry, you have to burn more energy walking through space. And that offsets the further calories you're taking in.

May 15, 2023

I think those are big wake up calls when people have to take a medicine and God forbid a shot every day for the rest of their life. I think that's a breaking point for them. And I think that's when they get scared and realize their own mortality is setting in now.

May 8, 2023

Now, we can argue about the stress and everything, but that has no bearing on the fact calories in, calories burned determines your weight.

May 1, 2023

I certainly will ask from the get go, why is it that you feel you need to lose weight? And everybody will have a different reasoning to be for sure.

April 24, 2023

I want to talk about the truth of weight because you don't need me to lose weight. You might need my help to lose weight, but you don't need me. The only thing you need to lose weight is knowledge. The motivational factor side to it, I can promise you, you're going to feel good.

April 17, 2023

A child that is brought up by two parents that are obese, so of heavy weight, odds are probably 100% of all offspring will become obese.

April 10, 2023

So there's hormones, there's drugs that we take that actually mimic these kinds of things. So that's another big reason why we battle our weight with issues. But the women and the weight gain, there's actually a reason for it. That is an optimal time to gain weight when they're expecting to become pregnant. That's what the body is trying to do, reserve energy stores.

April 3, 2023

I think there's a lot more psychology to it than people truly understand. We eat for parties, we eat for depression, we eat for happiness, we eat because we don't care.

March 27, 2023

Knowledge is what you need. And with that knowledge, you can gain an understanding and weigh out your variables of what you're actually doing to yourself.

March 20, 2023

Your stomach is a stupid muscle. It's a lazy muscle. It is the dumbest organ in the body.

March 13, 2023

When you look at the difference in calories between rice and chips, phenomenal difference. So I tell them, open your eyes.

March 6, 2023

To get away from high fructose corn syrup we have to break our addiction cycle. And of course, then we get into the debate about artificial sweeteners.

February 27, 2023

Bacteria cannot live in a pure sugar environment. So the more simple the sugar is, the less bacteria can survive in it. By adding more sugar to foods, more processed, more simple sugars that are smaller in size, will preserve foodstuffs for longer periods of time. Which is why we heard that the shelf life of a Twinkie is like 30 years.

February 20, 2023

I don't care if you want to eat refined sugar or sugarcane, the calories are still there. If you're consuming more of it, becoming addicted to it, and might not realize it, therein lies the problem with it.

February 13, 2023

You can Google a meal from 1950 and a meal today and you will notice the portion sizes have doubled. I think a large amount of our problem is that we are getting the idea that quality means quantity, and that's not the case at all.

February 6, 2023

Fasting is a hot topic in the fitness world right now and we are going to introduce you to 4 different types of fasting. Let’s get started!

April 14, 2021

Have you ever enjoyed your meal so much that you end up undoing that top button just so you can breathe a little more? If you have not, you are in the minority. We all have eaten to excess, whether at parties or dinner dates....

March 24, 2021

Last month we discussed the value of keeping a diet journal, now let’s talk about the best ways to make that log meaningful to you. Diaries are meant to give you a sounding board for how your day went and keeps a log of events...

March 9, 2021

Documentation is part of our everyday life. We take a selfie to commemorate a moment and snap pictures of our food when it’s artfully placed on our plate, so keeping a daily docket of our calories should come naturally right? Wrong! Food journaling for recipe...

February 22, 2021

What is it about winter that just seems to kick people off their game? Everyone appears to move a lot less and eat a lot more. Staying motivated with a workout plan is challenging as it is, add cold weather and inviting blankets and you’ve...

February 2, 2021

Today we will discuss how you can get a handle on eating through the holidays without setting yourself back on the weigh scale.

December 4, 2020

As we fight the fat foe, we must be resolved to limit our Halloween helpings and find other ways to trick and treat our devilish sweet tooth.

September 25, 2020

Calories sneak up on us when we aren’t diligent, take that croissantwich you just finished for example, do you realize that the croissant alone is 300 plus calories? And that’s not including the condiments and other contents.

September 1, 2020

? Get your workout on in the coolest way possible: in the pool! With COVID-19 on the loose it is difficult to get in those gym time hours, so instead hit the water with a few of our favorite aquatic exercises.

August 3, 2020

Who hasn’t had negative thoughts about themselves? These days self-deprecating talk is commonplace, evening defining an entire generation of people. Do you do this? If so, then you’re part of the majority. It’s easy to pick on yourself, especially since you know you the best....

July 2, 2020

We’ve talked in depth about weight loss as a lifestyle, now we are going to help you maintain that lifestyle by applying one of the most important aspects of grocery shopping, reading the nutrition label. Why is reading the nutrition label so important and what...

June 2, 2020

We live in strange times, but that doesn’t mean we have to give up on our goals or sacrifice all our hard work. COVID-19 has sentenced us to confined quarters. Since Missouri passed the obligatory stay-at-home order, many of us have been staying and/or working...

May 1, 2020

Every body is unique. While we all recognize this as fact…we seem to lose sight of that quickly when our work out and weight loss partner drop the pounds quicker than we do. This is especially true in the case of male vs. female weight...

April 10, 2020

Everyone aims to lead a better quality of life. Did you know losing weight can do just that? Weight-loss doesn’t just have to be about vanity, but about making a healthier, happier you. Today we will cover the most important health-related reasons to lose weight....

March 2, 2020

Doc encourages patients to avoid large meals until dinner, so those making efforts to lose weight should remember: Snacks are important!  They increase our metabolism throughout the day and keep us from overeating during main meals. Your snack decisions have a major impact on the...

January 30, 2020

Have you noticed those “you’ve earned it” rewards have become a frequent treat? Perhaps the weight scale has been pointing in the wrong direction for the past few weeks. Or maybe you have just been feeling a little under motivated to keep up on your...

January 6, 2020

Weight-loss is a journey. Much like every journey, you need to prepare yourself for it. Instead of packing a suitcase, you will be packing a gym bag and a metaphorical tool kit. Being prepared for this endeavor will keep you on track and ready for...

December 16, 2019

Fasting is a hot topic in the fitness world right now and we are going to introduce you to 4 different types of fasting. Let’s get started!...

14 April, 2021 /

What is it about winter that just seems to kick people off their game? Everyone appears to move a lot less and eat a lot more. Staying motivated with a workout plan is challenging as it is, add cold weather and inviting blankets and you’ve......

02 February, 2021 /

? Get your workout on in the coolest way possible: in the pool! With COVID-19 on the loose it is difficult to get in those gym time hours, so instead hit the water with a few of our favorite aquatic exercises. ...

03 August, 2020 /

Today we will discuss how you can get a handle on eating through the holidays without setting yourself back on the weigh scale. ...

04 December, 2020 /

Documentation is part of our everyday life. We take a selfie to commemorate a moment and snap pictures of our food when it’s artfully placed on our plate, so keeping a daily docket of our calories should come naturally right? Wrong! Food journaling for recipe......

22 February, 2021 /

Last month we discussed the value of keeping a diet journal, now let’s talk about the best ways to make that log meaningful to you. Diaries are meant to give you a sounding board for how your day went and keeps a log of events......

09 March, 2021 /

Who hasn’t had negative thoughts about themselves? These days self-deprecating talk is commonplace, evening defining an entire generation of people. Do you do this? If so, then you’re part of the majority. It’s easy to pick on yourself, especially since you know you the best.......

02 July, 2020 /

Have you ever enjoyed your meal so much that you end up undoing that top button just so you can breathe a little more? If you have not, you are in the minority. We all have eaten to excess, whether at parties or dinner dates.......

24 March, 2021 /

We’ve talked in depth about weight loss as a lifestyle, now we are going to help you maintain that lifestyle by applying one of the most important aspects of grocery shopping, reading the nutrition label. Why is reading the nutrition label so important and what......

02 June, 2020 /
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