Healthy Lifestyles Program Details

A Healthy Lifestyle Starts with a Team Approach

At UnityPoint Clinic Weight Loss, we use a coordinated team approach. Our specialists will work with you to set weight loss goals and make lifestyles changes to achieve them. A complete evaluation by the nurse practitioner at your first visit is the foundation of your personalized weight loss program.

Your nurse practitioner will:

• Look for health related issues that might cause obesity
• Review your medicines that can lead to weight gain
• Make recommendations to your primary care doctor to support your weight loss goals

A dietitian will:

• Review your current eating patterns and help you make a personal diet plan
• Teach you how to eat healthy to` prevent or manage disease
• Follow up with you to check on your progress

An exercise physiologist will:

• Test your exercise capacity
• Help you build a personal exercise plan
• Check on your progress and adjust the plan so it keeps working for you. Individualize your exercise plan for problems like joint pain

A mental health counselor will:

• Use counseling to help with things that affect your ability to eat healthy and make changes to improve your eating habits
• State-of-the-art technology will be used to follow accurate information about your body to track your progress in:
  • Body mass index
  • Body fat percentage
  • Resting metabolic rate

How do I get started?

• To get started, make an appointment with our clinic. Call 515-241-2250 today to sign up for your first visit.
• Please read, print and complete the patient history form and bring it to your first Healthy Lifestyles Program physician/team consultation.