Weight Loss Programs
A structured, physician-supervised program built from your own assessment — metabolic history, labs, medications and habits — and adjusted as your body responds.
Wellness Services
Wellness services, supervised by a physician
A plan built around your metabolism, your history, and the way you actually live — not a template handed to everyone who walks in.
Weight is not a matter of willpower, and treating it as one is why so many people arrive here having already done everything they were told to do. Metabolism, hormones, sleep, medication history, insulin resistance, and years of restrictive dieting all shape what your body does with what you eat — and each of them responds to something different.
Care at Agape begins with understanding which of those factors is doing the most work in your case. That assessment is what a program is built on. It is also what makes the program adjustable: when something is not working, we can tell you why, and change it.
Why a physician-led program is different
Dr. Curtis is a board-certified surgeon and a Diplomate of the American Board of Obesity Medicine. Obesity medicine is its own field with its own evidence base, and a physician trained in it can do things a commercial weight-loss program cannot: review your labs, account for the medications you already take, prescribe and manage medication when it is appropriate, and recognise when a plateau is a medical finding rather than a failure of discipline.
That clinical grounding is also why nothing here is sold as a fixed outcome. What we can offer is a considered plan, close supervision, and honest adjustment as your body responds.
Alongside the program
IV therapy sits on this side of the practice too — hydration and nutrient support, with the formulation and your suitability for it decided by the physician rather than chosen from a menu.
Treatments
Weight Loss Programs
Medication Management
Prescription medication for chronic weight management, assessed for suitability against your full history and monitored by the physician who prescribed it.
Nutrition & Lifestyle Support
Practical guidance on eating, movement and sleep, built around your household and your schedule and revisited as your circumstances change.
IV Therapy
Fluids, vitamins and nutrients delivered intravenously in the office, with formulation and suitability decided by the physician rather than chosen from a menu.
What patients come to us with
Concerns we work on
Obesity and overweight concerns
A medical subject with its own field, its own evidence base, and its own board certification — which is the qualification the physician leading your care holds.
Weight regain after previous efforts
Regain after a successful effort is the norm rather than the exception, and it is physiological: the body defends its previous weight with measurable changes in hunger signalling and energy expenditure.
Insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction
When cells respond poorly to insulin, the body stores more readily and burns less easily. It is measurable, and it changes which approaches are worth trying first.
Weight gain with age or hormonal change
Perimenopause, menopause, thyroid changes and the medications prescribed alongside them all shift the baseline. A plan that ignores that shift is working against the body rather than with it.
Weight affecting other conditions
Joint pain, sleep apnoea, blood pressure and blood sugar frequently move together with weight. Care is coordinated with that in view, not in isolation from it.
Lifestyle-related weight challenges
Shift work, travel, a household that eats differently, and the weeks that do not go to plan. These are practical problems, and a plan that cannot survive them is not a plan.
Hydration and wellness support
Addressed through IV therapy, with the formulation and your suitability for it decided in consultation with the physician.
Questions about wellness services
Do I need a referral to start?
No. You can arrange a consultation directly by calling the practice. If your care would benefit from records or labs from another physician, we will tell you what to request and why.
Is medication always part of the plan?
No. Medication is one option among several, considered only when your assessment supports it and your history allows it. Many patients begin with nutrition and lifestyle work alone.
How often will I be seen?
Visit frequency depends on the plan and on what is being monitored — patients on medication are typically seen more often early on, when dosing is being adjusted. Your schedule is set at your first visit and revisited as things change.
How quickly should I expect to see change?
That varies too much between individuals for an honest answer in advance. What we can tell you is what we will be measuring, how often, and what we would do if the numbers are not moving.