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

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  • Maintaining control over your diet is one of the hardest things to accomplish. As part of a successful plan for medical weight management in Baton Rouge, follow these simple tips and avoid these common diet disasters.

  • Get Motivated to Lose Weight

  • Whether you are looking for a weight loss program in Baton Rouge or are in the midst of your weight loss journey, you know that it takes more than just signing up for a gym membership to get fit. You need to find the internal motivation to get up and get moving, and once you are moving you need to stick with it. The truth is that no one ever said that getting fit is easy, but it is possible. When you want to get motivated to get in shape, consider some of the following important tips.

  • 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.