Bonita’s Story – Medical Weight Loss Patient

Bonita is one of our non-surgical weight loss patients who has lost more than 52 pounds so far. In this clip, Bonita discusses her “It Moment” that made her decide to seek help from Mercy Healthy Weight Solutions. The support from Dr. C. Joe Northup and his amazing staff have helped encourage Bonita to stay focused on her weight loss plan.

BONITA: My name is Bonita and I started with Mercy Healthy Weight Solutions in September of 2009, and my start weight was 247, and I am currently at 195. Before I came to Mercy, my husband and I took a vacation, and when we were there, I was really unable to walk around or get around good and enjoy the time that we had together. So, at that moment, I had decided that it was time for me to make some changes, and that’s when I decided to try Mercy Healthy Weight Solutions. I had heard about Dr. Northup’s program, and I had seen several people that I work with have real success with that, and I thought that that could be me too. And that is something that I really wanted was to be successful at being healthy and losing this weight. So, for me I chose Mercy because I knew that they had a good nonsurgical plan that I thought would fit my needs the best, and they laid out a dietary program for me, suggested exercise to go along with that diet. I had two visits with a trainer included in the plan and that really got me motivated and encouraged to go on with my weight loss. The team support was really great. Every time I came in, everybody was really friendly, very encouraging from the moment I came in. Usually, I would meet with Amber. She would weigh me and take my vital signs and do all that, and then Kristi would come in and go over my diet plan, give me great tips. It was encouraging just to know that really I had a place that I could go, people that I could call. If I needed that support, they were there for me, and that meant a lot. I've learned a lot about eating habits and it's important to eat breakfast. It's important to drink your water. It's important to exercise, and it's important to have a good support system there for you, and don’t be afraid to reach out, you know, to your friends or—and make new friends. It's just been great for me. I would recommend Mercy Healthy Weight Solutions to anyone because there are so many options available to you and because of the good support system that I received while I've been attending there. And even though it's—my program was a six-month program, Dr. Northup’s office has told me that, you know, “You're welcome to stop back in. You're welcome to come in and weigh anytime you’d like and, you know, we're there for you. We're just not say, ‘Get out on the curb,’ and leave you on your own,” so for me that’s meant a lot.