Patient Results | Weight Loss New York

I was always on the chubby side but in the past few years it has gotten out of control. In the summer of 2010 my doctor told me I had to do something about my weight. I was told about Dr. Scinta. I went there and met with everyone who was amazingly nice to me. I had my blood drawn and a few weeks later got the results. I had insulin resistance and over active thyroid and a few other things. My mom asked how come the doctors never found any of this. Dr. Scinta answered because they don’t always test for adult diseases. I was told that if I was 10 lbs heavier, I would’ve had diabetes. I’m so glad we caught my weight problem before it was too late. [Read more]

Being overweight, like other people, has been a struggle all my life. There were times that I had my weight under control, but then some event would trigger me to eat out of control again and up my weight would go. [Read more]

I retired in 2003 and after a couple of years started regaining weight. Finally, after five years, I weighed more than I had ever weighed in my life. Weight has always been a problem for me. Other than being grossly overweight, I enjoyed my life very much although my weight was beginning to slow me down from doing the things I like to do. I love running with my dog in agility, but running time is a factor, and I was finding it harder and harder to be successful at this activity which I love. [Read more]

Most days it is difficult for me to believe that two years have past since I first went to an informational meeting with Doctor Scinta and the wonderful staff at Medical Weight Loss of NY, but it has been that long. During that first session Doc challenged me about losing weight. Losing weight was something that I had done on several different occasions during my adult life, but was never able to keep it off for any period of time. Mostly because when I got down to a desired weight I just would go back to the same old bad habits. [Read more]

Having been overweight most of my life and coming from a family that has a history of obesity, I know what it feels like to think there’s nothing you can do about your weight, so there’s no point in trying.  But as Yoda said. “There is no try, only do.”  So I did something. I [...]