Episode 129: Clinical Conversations: Nutrition for Weight Maintenance After Medication or Surgery

In this episode, Obesity Medicine Specialist and OMA Clinical Education Director Dr. Nicholas Pennings is joined by Co-Clinical Education Director, Dr. Kirsten Frederiksen, together, they unpack the physiology behind rapid weight regain after stopping obesity medications, explore the most effective dietary and lifestyle strategies for long-term weight maintenance, and discuss how clinicians can reframe the conversation with patients from the very start of treatment. Episode Guest: Kirsten Frederiksen, MD, MSc, FACP, FOMA, DABOM Episode Host: Nicholas Pennings, DO, DABOM, MFOMA, FACOFP, FAAFP Chapters (00:00:01) - Nutrition for Weight Maintenance after medication(00:01:13) - Weight maintenance is a chronic disease(00:10:12) - Weight regain after lapidomycin therapy(00:14:25) - Physical Activity and Weight Maintenance(00:19:07) - Weight Maintenance with obese patients(00:23:49) - Weight maintenance, 3 nutritional principles(00:26:22) - Obesity a Disease