Your lifelong success with weight management is our highest goal!
Programs for Dieters
Your lifelong success with weight management is IMT’s highest goal!
Have you struggled with your weight for years? Have you tried every fad diet with some success only to go right back up the scales when it was over? Does being preoccupied with weight affect your life on a daily basis? If you answered yes to any of these and you’re ready to get healthy for life, Innovative Medical Therapies’ New Direction weight loss program in Pekin, Illinois, is here for you! We offer 3 different medically supervised weight loss programs that provide results and give you your life back.
3 Programs for Weight-Loss & Optimum Health
The Robard Corporation has been helping people lose and manage their weight for decades, and Innovative Medical Therapies has embraced their New Direction program because IT WORKS! Our proven weight management programs and quality assured nutritional products have helped thousands of patients achieve their weight loss goals — and more importantly, improve their health and happiness.
Robard Corporation New Directions Weight Management System
Robard’s New Direction Weight Management System offers many benefits and are recommended if you’re clinically obese, have medical issues related to weight, and want to reduce the symptoms of chronic conditions. Having health issues can make losing weight that much harder – the medical staff at Innovative Medical Therapies is highly trained and available to help you through your program, no matter what challenges you face.
Treat Chronic Conditions
Reduce obesity related comorbidities, such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, high triglycerides, kidney disease, sleep apnea, and more.
Improve Quality of Life
Robard’s New Directions weight management programs show marked improvement in our patients’ quality of life through lasting lifestyle changes that help reduce chronic conditions.
Safe and effective, these weight management programs help you lose weight while learning lifelong healthy habits. You will realize long-term weight maintenance through nutrition, behavior, and exercise re-education. Our programs and products are physician based and only available through physicians, hospitals, and medically staffed clinics.
Medical vs. Non-Medical Weight Loss Programs
The first step toward your new, healthier lifestyle is finding the weight loss program that’s best for you. Consider the differences between the two below.
MEDICAL NON-MEDICAL
Weight loss goal > 30 Body Mass Index Little-to-no health related limits
Average weight loss per week 3-5 pounds 1-3 pounds
Support session type Weekly group and individual
Led by Medical personnel
Meetings held by non-designated personnel
Source of nutrition during weight loss Meal replacements Meal replacements and protein supplements with grocery foods.
Unknown sources of nutrition, often requiring vitamin supplementation
Monitored by: Routine medical monitoring
FDA monitored --
Evidence-based Medical Protocols
Robard’s comprehensive Bariatric Medical Protocols, developed by leaders in the weight management field, guide us in the treatment of obese patients. Also provided are coexisting condition-specific medical protocols covering diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hypertension, high cholesterol, and kidney disease.
New Direction® Weight Management System
Innovative Medical Therapies is also excited to offer our weight loss clinic patients the New Direction® Weight Management System*. With this weight loss and management program, we can successfully treat overweight clients that need to lose weight for health or personal reasons. We do this through an integrated, individualized treatment plan that is medically supervised by a team of healthcare professionals led by our Program Director, Mary Jo Noyes, RN.
How It Works
New Direction is a multidisciplinary program of behavior modification, nutrition education, physical activity, and group support to reinforce lasting lifestyle changes. It is our most popular program with rapid results and creates healthy changes in all areas of your life, including emotional well-being. Results are dramatic and quick for those who are committed – some of our patients have lost up to 50 pounds within a 4-5 month period!
With New Direction, nutritionally complete meal replacements replace grocery food intake for several weeks or months depending on your goals. IMT patients (and staff!) report that the food products taste great, the program is easy to follow, and the meetings are informative and helpful.
New Direction® Benefits
Not only will you reap the obvious rewards of losing weight like feeling better, sleeping better, having more energy, and a healthier emotional outlook, you’ll realize life-saving health benefits as well. These health benefits
