The Center for Medical Weight Loss, a national network specializing in bariatric medicine, has a branch right here in Rye. Dr. Lisa Trencher has been offering the program at 16 School Street for four years with great success.
By Janice Llanes Fabry
The Center for Medical Weight Loss, a national network specializing in bariatric medicine, has a branch right here in Rye. Dr. Lisa Trencher has been offering the program at 16 School Street for four years with great success.
“If you’re motivated and compliant, the program works 100 percent of the time,” assured Trencher.
Critical to the program’s efficaciousness are the physicians. As the center espouses, weight by its very nature is a medical issue, so it makes sense that CMWL-trained doctors manage the program. You can check their site and undergo the best diet and workout plans.
Trencher is a psychiatrist, who has been practicing in Westchester for over 20 years. Having experience as a senior attending physician at Westchester Medical Center and a faculty member at New York Medical College, she went on to head Rye’s Samaritan Counseling Center as Medical Director. Ten years ago, she opened her own psychiatric practice in Rye.
Introduced to CMWL when she decided to lose weight herself, Trencher recalled, “I thought I wanted to lose 10 pounds, realized it wasn’t enough, and in three months lost 20. At that point, I asked to be trained and incorporated the program into my practice,” she said, “It’s a good marriage.”
That is not to say that Trencher’s weight-loss patients lie on the psychiatrist’s proverbial couch. They do stand to benefit, however, from the doctor’s acute insight into the mind/body relationship, whether they are health-conscious individuals who’d like to improve their BMI (body mass index), or obese.
“My background is helpful in understanding people’s poor self-esteem and emotional eating,” said Trencher, who offers one-on-one behavioral counseling with sound nutrition advice. “I provide a safe place where we discuss struggles with weight and talk about how to get healthy.”
The first step is gaining a patient’s medical history, goals, and a body composition analysis by stepping on the scale. Trencher’s state-of-the-art sensor scale differentiates between muscle weight, fat weight, water weight, and resting metabolism (a prediction of the number of calories one will burn in one day while at rest).
Subsequently, she prescribes a personalized quick-start plan that includes one 600-calorie meal per day with nutritious supplements. These CMWL bars and shakes ensure patients will not develop deficiencies in vitamins, enzymes, and minerals.
During a transitional phase when patients have lost some weight, more foods are introduced. They may have proteins and complex carbohydrates, essentially, fish, meat, and vegetables.
“The idea is not to starve. You have to eat to lose weight. It’s important to eat protein, which builds muscle,” explained Trencher. “From age 30 on, we lose muscle, which burns calories ten times more than fat does. Our goal is to maintain muscle and lose fat. What you eat is very important, but you also have to know what you’re losing.”
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Once goals are reached, throughout the final maintenance phase, Trencher continues educating, counseling, and monitoring activity. The idea is to modify one’s lifestyle by going “slow and steady and developing a different relationship with food.” The length of treatment is contingent upon a client’s goals.
“Patients can always come back for a refresher. My door is always open,” said Trencher.
For an appointment, call 877-584-5706.
