As a long term patient at W8MD, success has built upon success as they have provided me with real…read moretools to deal with excess weight and a lifelong seemingly uncontrollable craving for inappropriate and/or excess food.
I was 100 lbs overweight when I first walked into W8MD's office in 2014. Thanks to the medication - in my case Phentermine - and dietary approach (with the emphasis on high protein and minimal carbs) I learned to utilize with this program, I've not been obese now for approximately 10 years (and I have maintained at least an 80 pound weight loss consistently.)
The phentermine and W8MD's program made this possible, however sometimes it was still something of a struggle. The gnawing feeling would sometimes appear out of nowhere, and I would be fighting with myself. However, I consistently received support and encouragement from Dr. Tumpati and all of his staff, even when I was disappointed in myself.
And now the injectable Mounjaro, a drug previously solely used for treating diabetes, has been approved for weight loss. This is an incredible gift. And Dr Tumpati, who has always been on the forefront of ways he can help his patients, seeking better ways to heal, has welcomed this treatment and is now using it regularly in his practice with people who have excess weight.
Dr. Tumpati started me on Mounjaro injections about 6 months ago, essentially as soon as it was approved for use to assist with weight loss. Here was the missing piece of the puzzle, bringing me the relief I never dared imagine.
Combined with everything else I had been doing, I now have a new freedom around food, free from cravings or guilt. It's been replaced by neutrality, and an ability to provide my body with nutrition without all the mental and emotional baggage I'd carried around all these years.
Also, seemingly effortlessly, the 20-30 pounds that had continued to haunt me has disappeared, bringing me to what I have always felt would be my 'ideal' weight, though I never thought it possible.
My BMI, as well as all of my vitals, could easily be that of a woman half my age. I feel amazing, and I'm rockin' those size 6 jeans!
Thank you, Dr. Tumpati and W8MD!