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

  • Preventing a Weight Loss Disaster

  • We all want to make our family and friends happy, and many of us go to great extents to put a smile on others faces. But how much do you sacrifice your own needs to satisfy others happiness? Perhaps, for example, your children ask for pizza for dinner. While you might be focusing on your weight loss goals, you may suddenly feel guilty about not taking your children to the movies yesterday after you promised them they could go, and if you aren’t prepared then this feeling of guilt may drive to merge from your weight loss plan.

  • How Obesity May Affect the Brain

  • According to a recent study, obesity may affect areas of the brain that control appetite and the impulse to eat–and overeat. While many people argue that losing weight is all about self-control, medical weight loss specialists understand that obesity is a struggle that many people have difficulty attempting to overcome. Weight loss clinics in Baton Rouge can help you to overcome the impact that obesity has had on your mind and help you to begin living a healthier lifestyle.

  • Becoming Aware of your Hunger Cues

  • Often times when we are having a bad day, we gravitate towards something that makes us feel comfortable. Most comfort foods aren’t packed with nutrients, and aren’t being eaten and consumed because of hunger. Emotional or “head hunger” differs greatly from physical hunger. Emotional eating can be a day-to-day occurrence that most people live with without even fully understanding or realizing. Obesity is one of the largest health problems we face today, and without separation between head and physical hunger, it is often very difficult to make a long term change.