12-Week Weight Loss Medication Support Group
Get 12 Weeks of expert guidance and community support
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This group is for individuals who:
- Are taking weight control medications who want to lose more weight or prevent regaining the weight they’ve lost.
- Are not taking a weight control medication but are considering it.
- This group is open to everyone: 1) current and past group members, and 2) anyone who has not been part of our program in the past.
This Group is Open Enrollment. Join Us Anytime During the 12 Weeks!
Next Start Date: Tuesday July 8. It's currently running but this group is open enrollment so you can join us at any time.
Send Rich an email whenever you want to join: [email protected]
Time: 6:00pm to 7:15pm ET
Place: ZOOM link shared upon registration
Frequency: Sessions meet once a week on Tuesdays for 12 weeks at 6:00pm ET to 7:15pm ET
Fee: $45 per session
Your Coaches
Lauren "Casey" Flowers, MS, RD, CDCES
Registered Dietitian and Nutritionist, Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist
Rich Weil, M.Ed., CDE
TWC Program Founder and Director, Exercise Physiologist, and Certified Diabetes Educator
[email protected]
In this group you will find empathy, support, camaraderie, understanding, and strategies for coping with all the physiological and psychological changes from peers who are experiencing similar issues, as well as authoritative information and guidance from health-care professionals who have the experience and compassion to help you cope with the physical and psychological changes associated with large and rapid weight loss."
HOW ARE WE DOING?
Below are the results of a study published in the April 8, 2025 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. You can make up your own mind about how we’re doing once you consider what the study shows compared to our own performance, and then all the other elements of our support group.
We have done an extensive search and have not found even one weight loss medication support group like ours in the country offering the level of support and comprehensive approach to supporting GLP-1 use that we do.
The first image below is the headline of an article summary of the study published in Helio online. The second image is of the heading of the original study. The study reported that approximately 25,000 patients visited the emergency room in 2022-2023 secondary to GLP-1 side effects.
I am proud to report that in the 16 months we have been running the weight loss medication support group, NOT ONE PARTICIPANT had to visit the emergency room for GLP-1 side effects or hypoglycemia.
WHY DO OUR SUPPORT GROUP MEMBERS DO SO WELL?
Because we provide the highest level of standard of care available. You attend weekly, 75-minute sessions, with 15-18 other participants who are also taking the medications and really “get it”, so you get support, advice, wisdom, and share stories with like-minded peers. And then, the group is facilitated by two health-care professionals with a great deal of knowledge and experience with the weight loss medications. Rich alone has 44 years in the field.
Where else can you get that level of support and source of accurate information? These are powerful, life-altering medications, and many changes happen to you that raise questions and can turn your world upside down. In the group we cover everything; practical issues about how and where to acquire the medication, how to navigate insurance, how to eat to avoid side effects, changes in body image, and the bewildering, and often unnerving, effect of normal appetite regulation: no food cravings, no obsessing about food, not feeling hungry, feeing full, leaving food on your plate, no food noise, and many other changes that you may never have experienced in your whole life. We support you, educate you, and help you through all of it.
We do not think you can get that kind of support anywhere. As I said, after an extensive search, we could not locate even one comprehensive weight loss medication support group like ours in the country. Making the transition to normal appetite regulation and a body weight you may not have experienced in decades requires support and guidance. We read messages on social media forums and find that people are in the dark because they don’t receive proper, comprehensive, and authoritative guidance. We offer all that and more.
We recently started our fifth 12-week session but it is never too late to enroll because it is open enrollment. This support group has been very well-received.
Topics Covered
Medication
- Strategies for acquiring the medications, paying for them, and navigating insurance
- The science, mechanisms, and health benefits of the new meds
- Information and strategies for coping with side effects
- Discussion and learning how to cope with loss of appetite, feeling full, losing interest in food, loss of food cravings and obsessing about food, leaving food on your plate, loss of “food noise”
- Calculating new calorie needs based on new body weights
- Reaching new set points
- Addressing the challenges of altered body image
- Receiving compliments about your new appearance
- Dealing with new wardrobes and what to wear, what to do with old clothes, shopping at stores instead of online
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