The Optimum Nutritional Experience

The physicians of Gastroenterology Associates understand the impact that excess weight has on your health and the challenges that go along with losing weight and maintaining weight over time.  For that reason, the O.N.E. Weigh System was created as the region’s first gastroenterologist directed center for weight control and obesity treatment.

This medically supervised approach to weight loss and weight management utilizes medical and health care specialists trained in the treatment of overweight individuals.  Our physicians, nurse practitioners, registered dietitians and counselors provide comprehensive nutritional therapy while building lasting relationships in an interactive and positive environment. With the right support, your weight management goals are attainable.

Know what and how much to eat to achieve your weight management goals.  Learn how to shop and cook healthier.  Become an efficient label reader.  Understand triggers, behaviors and break old habits.  Get the motivation to start up a fitness routine and gain the support to recover from emotional eating.  Our programs can provide it all.

Thank you for considering us for your weight management needs.

Our Services

  • Our center offers a variety of options to create a program that best meets the client’s individual goals and needs.
  • OPTIFAST® Programs – Provide comprehensive nutritional therapy with an average weight loss of 52 pounds in 22 weeks. These programs are based 30 years of clinical research are continually updated by leading obesity experts.
  • Metabolic testing – We offer REEVUE®, a ten minute test to calculate basal energy expenditures in our clients and monitor their weight-loss progress scientifically. This offers customized caloric intake to improve weight loss goal achievement, as well as improve our oversight of nutrition treatment in patients with gastrointestinal illness.
  • Lifestyle classes and support – We understand that weight loss alone is not the solution to obesity. It requires a commitment to life long weight management. Our lifestyle classes facilitate the success of clients through an interactive and positive learning environment.

About Us

Monthly Digest

  • Weight Loss Without the D(iet) Word

  • The problem with dieting is that you are constantly thinking about what you cannot have. Think of any typical interaction where you are offered something to eat. Your response: ‘I can’t, I’m on a diet.’ What if losing weight wasn’t about the long list of things you couldn’t have, and instead an opportunity to open your eyes to the long list of healthy items that you can and should have? [Read more]

  • Yoga or Pilates? That is the Question

  • To keep up with your medical weight loss program, it is not necessary to lift weights or run a mile every day. There are lots of other fitness options that you can pursue and still lose weight. Yoga and Pilates are both fun fitness options that you can do in the comfort of your own home. [Read more]

  • Volunteer for Better Health

  • What feels better than losing weight? How about, losing weight while helping the less fortunate members of our society! If you’re looking for a way to get some good exercise outside of the gym, volunteering can give you a great opportunity to lose weight and feel great while helping others. Though dropping pounds with medical weight loss programs like OPTIFAST will improve your physical health, volunteering is a great way to improve your mental and moral health while you continue with your weight loss plan. [Read more]