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Note: Confidentiality is of the utmost importance to us at the MUSC Weight Management Center. Each patient listed below has granted us express permission to share their program results and pictures with our webpage visitors.


Noah's Story

Age: 37
Program: Focus
Start Date: 10/02/07
End Date: 02/06/08

Weight Loss: 225.2 to 164 (lost 61.2 lbs)
Body Mass Index (BMI): 34.8 to 27.1

Total Cholesterol: 153 to 116
LDL (bad) Cholesterol: 74 to 60
HDL (good) Cholesterol: 32 to 49
Triglycerides: 235 (high) to 34
Blood Pressure: 140/80 to 118/70

Body Fat %: 30.2% to 13.9%
Waist: 46" to 31"
Hips: 46.5" to 38.25"

Other Notable Successes:
Patient has become a regular runner. He improved his time in the Cooper River Bridge Run from 77 minutes in 2007 to 52:32 in 2008. He is now regularly running half-marathons (13.1 miles) and other various races.

Overcoming Obstacles (in patient's own words):
"The biggest obstacle I had when losing weight was 'lunch.' I work in an office where everyone goes to lunch together. So lunch is a big social event. The first week I just made up reasons not to go, then I decided to tell everyone what I was doing. They were very supportive. I decided to drink my shake and then go with them to lunch and just have water. It was weird at first, but the payoff of being with everyone was worth it."

"Now I take my lunch to work for the most part, but after learning how to eat correctly, I actually have a few places I can eat out for lunch."

"I have to say that the breakthrough moment for me was when I was told to think about how I tackle problems at work and use the same thought process for losing weight. That was when I made up graphs and charts on my computer to track my weight and steps. I tell everyone I know that if you have the facts staring you in the face every morning, its hard to hide from reality. I could see that if I dropped off my exercise and did not get in my steps I did not lose as much weight."

"It has been over two months now and I still weigh myself and I still wear a pedometer. I don't have any plans of stopping."

Before and After Pictures:



More patient stories to come... Stay tuned..

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