OPTIFAST® Weight Management Program
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The Southcoast Center for Weight Loss offers a new medically-supervised component to our weight loss program — OPTIFAST®. This is an important complement to our nationally-recognized weight loss surgery program.
Developed more than 30 years ago, OPTIFAST is a comprehensive weight management program that combines lifestyle education, meal replacement and medical monitoring to achieve significant results in weight loss.
At Southcoast, our program is located at Tobey Hospital in Wareham, where we have a recognized Center for Excellence in weight loss surgery and weight management.
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- Comprehensive lifestyle education.
- Medical monitoring with a physician, registered dietitian and nurse.
- Specially-designed and nutritionally-complete food program.
Studies have shown that an average weight loss of 52 pounds has been achieved among more than 22,000 patients who completed the 22-week program.
Additionally, on average, these patients saw a 15 percent reduction in cholesterol, a 29 percent reduction in blood glucose and a 10 percent reduction in blood pressure.
Upcoming Free OPTIFAST Lectures
Wareham
All lectures are held in Wareham. Check date for location.
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New Bedford
All lectures are held at St. Luke's Hospital.
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To register, please call 508-525-3114.
Our OPTIFAST Team
Our clinical professionals all have extensive experience in weight loss management, through our comprehensive bariatric surgery program and other weight loss services we offer at the Southcoast Center for Weight Loss.
Thomas Streeter, MD
Medical Director
Dr. Streeter is a board-certified surgeon who has practiced as a general surgeon at Tobey Hospital for more than 12 years. A graduate of the Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., Dr. Streeter completed residencies at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and has received advanced training in bariatric surgery. He has worked with Dr. Rayford Kruger to develop the bariatric surgery program at Tobey Hospital and is a Center of Excellence surgeon.
Stacy Medeiros, RD
Dietitian & Program Director
Stacey Medeiros, RD, is a Clinical Dietitian. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Rhode Island and a Bachelors Degree in Psychology from Rhode Island College. She completed a dietetic internship at Southcoast Hospitals in 2007. She has experience as a clinical and outpatient dietitian and special training in nutrition counseling for bariatric surgery patients.
