What's The Buzz About Weight Loss Medications?

• Which medications are FDA approved for weight loss.
• How medications, along with behavioral changes, are used to treat excess weight.
• Why treating excess weight with medication may prevent complications such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, heart disease and certain types of cancer.
• That excess weight is not your fault, and not a flaw in your personality. It's a complex disease process with genetic, environmental, hormonal and neurological influences. Medication helps to circumvent some of these factors.

Meet Your Coach

Lisa Oldson, MD is on staff at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, and has been an award winning member of the faculty at the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern since 1998. She attended medical school at Rush University, where she also completed her residency in Internal Medicine, and was honored to be Chief Resident.

After serving as a board certified Internal Medicine physician for many years, Dr. Lisa obtained additional certification through the American Board of Obesity Medicine in 2013. Her passion is helping people to reach and maintain their healthy weight, by sharing the latest science and closing the door on unhelpful concepts like, "eat less, move more." Dr. Lisa is a physician by training, but is first and foremost a certified coach. She has developed an amazing program that will help you transform your weight, as well as your relationship with food and with yourself.

Coach Lisa lives in the suburbs of Chicago with her two children, her husband and various pets. She may be excruciatingly slow when she jogs or bikes, but she's a decent tango dancer.