Lose the weight and gain in life.

Weight loss can be very beneficial to your general health and assisting the healing process. At Waterfront Chiropractic we offer guidance and advanced tools like the Body Gem and Balance Log to help you meet your weight-loss goals safely and efficiently.

The Body Gem and Balance Log is a customizable weight-loss system that's designed to adapt as the patient undergoes physical changes. Body Gem is a highly accurate tool used to determine the patient's resting metabolic rate (the rate at which a patient burns calories at rest). With this information and the patient's lifestyle information, we can then use a portable, personalized software tool called Balance Log. The Balance Log software runs on a PDA(Personal Digital Assistant, commonly known as a Palm Pilot) and contains the nutritional label information of over 2000 brand-name food products. Once we create a personalized weight-loss program, the patient uses the Balance Log to figure out the amount and types of foods he or she can eat while reaching the specific weight loss goal in the designated time. All the patient needs to do is enter the name of the food products into the Balance Log and the software deducts the caloric value from the daily-allotted calories.

This information is also very useful to the ongoing evaluation of the patient as we can analyze the data and learn what the patient's actual eating habits are and his or her vitamin, mineral, sugar, fat and cholesterol intake. This, of course, is useful to the patient because they can see their eating habits- good and bad--more objectively. But even more importantly, the Balance Log provides this data that allows us to evolve and adapt the weight-loss program as the patient progresses and insures that the program is customized and optimized for each individual- for example, eliminating a scenario where different individuals are on the same diet but get vastly different results: some lose weight. Some gain weight. And some have no change at all.

What is so special about this program is that when a person loses weight their metabolic burn rate changes and we can retest to get the new burn rate. This prevents the patient from reaching weight-loss "plateaus", which are common in other types of diets. This is truly a fantastic tool that works.

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