Weight Loss Services
Located at Sydney Adventist Hospital in Wahroonga, ELIA Lifestyle Medicine Centre is dedicated to supporting individuals on their journey to better health through lifestyle-focused weight loss solutions.
At ELIA, we understand the complexities of weight management and the impact weight can have on one’s overall health, particularly in relation to chronic conditions like diabetes. Our approach to weight loss is comprehensive and tailored to each individual, focusing on lasting lifestyle changes and long-term health benefits.
The Impact of Weight on Health and Chronic Conditions
Carrying excess weight can significantly affect your health, increasing your risk for conditions such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and high blood pressure. For many people, weight gain exacerbates these chronic issues by placing added stress on the body, impairing blood sugar regulation, increasing inflammation, and affecting cardiovascular function. Research has shown that even modest weight loss—5% to 10% of body weight 5% to 10% of body weight can lead to significant health benefits, including improved blood pressure, blood sugar levels, and cholesterol.
In addition to the physical strain on the body, weight-related health conditions often create a cycle that makes weight loss more challenging, as these conditions can impair energy levels, reduce mobility, and influence emotional wellbeing. We at ELIA Lifestyle Medicine Centre aim to break this cycle and help clients regain control over their health through a wholistic, supported weight loss approach.
How Weight Loss Helps Manage Chronic Health Conditions
Losing weight is about more than just looking and feeling better; it can also improve physical and mental wellbeing by alleviating the symptoms of chronic health conditions.
For people with diabetes, weight loss can improve insulin sensitivity and help regulate blood sugar, reducing the need for medication and the risk of complications. At ELIA, our weight loss program addresses these health needs by offering a structured, supportive approach tailored to each individual’s health goals and circumstances.
Health Coaching for Weight Loss
One of the core components of our weight loss services at ELIA is health coaching. Our experienced health coach provides personalised guidance, motivation, and support to help clients make lifestyle changes that are manageable and sustainable. Through one-on-one coaching, clients receive:
Personalised Nutrition and Meal Planning: Together with our Dietician an individualised nutrition plan will be developed with individual tastes, cultural preferences, and lifestyle needs. Our health coach will support you through dietary changes, environmental restructuring and accountability to the nutritional goals made to ensure lasting success.
Physical Activity Guidance: ELIA’s coach works with clients to identify enjoyable and
Physical Activity Guidance: ELIA’s coach works with clients to identify enjoyable and manageable physical activities. This may include recommendations for aerobic exercise, resistance training, or even low-impact exercises for those with physical limitations.
Behavioural and Emotional Support: Weight loss is not just a physical journey—it’s also an emotional and psychological one. Our health coach supports clients in understanding and overcoming emotional triggers, setting realistic goals, and developing a positive mindset towards health and wellness.
Our health coach, Geena Rose Burton, empowers clients to take control of their health by making gradual, achievable lifestyle changes that lead to long-term success.
The ELIA Diabetes Clinical Program
Our 12-week diabetes program aims to help diabetes patients manage their type 2 diabetes with healthy lifestyle habits that are often difficult to achieve on their own. Through this program, we aim to manage your diabetes through fitness guidance, cooking and nutrition workshops, and lifestyle coaching under the expert guidance of clinicians specialising in lifestyle medicine.
Why participate in our diabetes program?
We guide, support, coach, and motivate you on your journey to living life more abundantly and better treating your type 2 diabetes.
We empower you to improve your blood sugar levels and potentially minimise your reliance on medications for diabetes management.
Our program is developed by leading medical and health experts, using evidence-based lifestyle interventions.
The ELIA Diabetes Clinical Program is designed to help clients with diabetes lead healthier lives by addressing the root causes and symptoms of their condition.
At ELIA Lifestyle Medicine Centre, we’re dedicated to addressing each client’s unique health needs with a comprehensive, interdisciplinary wholistic wellness approach . With services that include health coaching, tailored nutrition plans, diabetes-specific support, and lifestyle education, ELIA is equipped to guide you towards better health outcomes and improved quality of life.
The 7 Dimensions of Wellness
Lifestyle Medicine incorporates the whole person, with the understanding that factors in one area of life impact the other areas. Lifestyle Medicine uses the 7 Dimensions of Wellness to create a whole-person snapshot to identify where a particular dimension is within the Harm to Heal™ scale.