MEDICAL WEIGHT LOSS

Helping you optimize your physical health, metabolism, and achieve your weight loss goals.

If you want to lose your extra weight for good, you need to control what is going on inside your body.

The solution is to find the equilibrium between losing the weight, controlling your hunger, and fixing your metabolism.

Medical weight loss goes far beyond diet and exercise. A comprehensive medical approach will ensure fat reductions strategies that will fit your unique needs.

Our medical weight loss program starts with a doctor’s consultation. During the consultation, we will determine your overall physical health, assess your metabolic profile and hormonal balance, and set your weight loss goals.

Once we collect that information, we will design a treatment program to help you succeed and achieve your goal weight. We will monitor your progress throughout your treatment.

We offer physician-supervised medical weight loss from our clinic in Chicago's West Loop, with care led by our medical providers. It's for adults who have struggled to lose or keep off weight with diet and exercise alone. Your first step is a New Patient Consultation, available in person or by video or phone; from there we assess your metabolism, order labs and build a plan that's reviewed over time.

We take a 4-step approach to help you lose weight, increase your energy, and improve your moods:

Initial Consultation

We will spend time with you so that we can understand your weight loss goals and how you have attempted to reach those goals in the past.

We will ask you key questions so that we can identify potential imbalances in your body that are affecting your metabolism and we will assess your metabolism to determine its current state.

Identify and Correct Imbalances in Metabolism

You will meet with Dr. Pavilonis to evaluate your test results. Dr. Pavilonis will identify the imbalances in your body that have been preventing your metabolism from working at its best level.

Because keeping weight off is impossible without correcting the imbalances in our bodies, a customized treatment plan to correct and optimize your metabolism will be created for you. She will use a combination of nutrition, vitamins, probiotics and in some cases, medication to create your plan.

In-Depth Testing

Once your consultation is complete, our team will determine what further testing you will need so that we can clearly identify what the root cause of your weight struggle is.

These tests may include in-depth blood work, fat mass percentage, and metabolic rate testing.

Customized Nutrition Plan Based on your Unique Metabolism

We will give you a customized nutrition plan to fit your lifestyle and allow you to optimize your metabolism. You will eat fresh food that you can easily purchase at the grocery store, and we will support you one-on-one to keep your motivated and successful. You will feel full and have lots of energy.

You will take the weight off and keep it off. If you need it, the doctor will prescribe Lipotropic and B12 injections, and if needed, holistic or FDA-approved peptides such as Semaglutide or Tirzepatide. Other peptides we use under medical supervision include but are not limited to: Ipamorelin/CJC, MOT-c, BPC157, etc.

HOW WE WORK

Our treatments typically include

Detailed health assessment
Assessment of hormonal balance, nutritional deficiencies, gut microbiome, genetic factors, etc.
Customized weight loss plan

Nutritional planning
Lipotropic, B12 and appetite suppression if needed
Supporting body’s natural ability to detox

Macro and Microelements supplementation
Hormone replacement if needed
Trained medical supervision
Gradual transition phase to avoid regaining the lost weight

Explore more of our services

Peptide Therapy

Functional Medicine

Anti-Aging Medicine

Advanced Allergy Therapy

Hormone Therapy

Nutritional Consultations

IV Therapy & Injectables

Hydrogen Therapy

Ozone Therapy

Gut Flora Optimization

Who leads the weight loss programme?

Our medical providers, under the clinical direction of Dr. Dina Pavilonis, MD, who is board-certified in obesity medicine. Your consultation is with one of our physicians, naturopathic doctors or nurse practitioner.

Can IV therapy help with medical weight loss?

IV and injection therapies such as our Metabolic Boost IV and Lipo+ shots may support energy and metabolism alongside a weight loss plan. They complement, rather than replace, the medical programme your provider designs.

Is medical weight loss different from a diet?

Yes. Diet and exercise alone often stall because underlying factors are not addressed. A medical programme identifies those factors through testing and treats them, with your progress reviewed at each visit.

How does medical weight loss work?

It starts with understanding what is going on inside your body — metabolism, hormones, appetite regulation and inflammation. After consultation and lab work, your provider builds a plan that may include nutrition, lifestyle changes and, when clinically appropriate, medication.

Where can I find medical weight loss programs in Chicago?

Green Circle Wellness offers a physician-supervised medical weight loss programme from our clinic in Chicago's West Loop, beginning with a New Patient Consultation available in person or by video or phone.