Alevia Medical Weight Management Services
At Alevia Medical Weight Loss, our team of medical doctors and allied health practitioners are here to provide you with compassionate and evidence-based care to help you achieve improvements in your health.
Weight Assessment – what’s included
What to expect:
- 45min to 1 hr initial consult: medical history, physical exam and discuss treatment options.
- Screening for related conditions (e.g., blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes risk, thyroid, sleep apnoea, hormones, mental health).
Clinically appropriate tests (e.g., bloods, sleep study referral, screening tools).
Body composition analysis (body fat %, muscle mass, basal metabolic rate).
Shared goal-setting and developing a treatment plan.
- Ongoing reviews and coordination with other health professionals as needed.
Body Composition Assessment
Weight alone and BMI can be misleading.
Our Body Composition Analysis helps assess:
Muscle mass during weight loss
Basal metabolic rate (daily energy use at rest)
Body fat % and
Visceral fat – which increases risk of chronic diseases
At Alevia, we offer in-house body composition analysis, with our state-of-the-art technology, to assist in determining what weight loss plan is right for you, as well as ensuring you preserve muscle mass throughout your weight loss journey.
Nutrition Support for Weight Loss
What to expect:
Personalised nutrition coaching – We’ll discuss your current eating patterns, preferences, allergies or intolerances, culture, budget, and lifestyle to guide realistic changes you can sustain.
Individualised nutrition care for health conditions – For people living with type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, insulin resistance or PCOS, we provide advice aligned with current evidence and tailored to your circumstances. We can coordinate with your GP/specialist as needed. Individual responses vary.
Nutrition support if you’re using a doctor-prescribed weight-management medicine – We focus on maintaining nutritional adequacy and managing appetite or GI changes while you follow your prescriber’s plan. Medication decisions are made with your doctor; we don’t advertise specific medicines.
Flexible eating frameworks – We can support approaches such as very-low-energy diets, lower-carbohydrate patterns, Mediterranean-style eating, time-restricted eating, or balanced everyday eating—matched to your goals and preferences.
- Practical skills for everyday life – Learn to tune into hunger/fullness cues, choose foods that support steady energy and satisfaction, build balanced meals, and navigate dining out, travel and family meals.
Lifestyle Program – “Tools for Success”
In addition to our prescribed dietary and exercise program, we will provide you with our educational program, “Tools For Success”, with 12 modules designed to teach you to make those long lasting lifestyle changes and overcome barriers to weight loss.
- Understanding what causes weight gain
- Control of hunger with a low carb diet
- Feeling fuller with healthy carbs
- Protein power
- Healthy fats
- Getting active and building strength
- Dealing with hunger and cravings
- Breaking unhelpful habits
- Stress and emotional eating
- Reading food labels
- Eating out and liquid calories
- Relapse prevention and weight maintenance
Weight-Management Medications
What happens when lifestyle change alone is not enough and weight is causing significant health problems?
Prescribed weight loss medications can provide assistance for people who are trying to lose weight. These medications act on the brain and the gut to reduce a person’s appetite and interest in food, and assist weight loss when used in combination with a healthy diet and regular exercise.
Medications may be suitable for individuals who have:
- BMI > 30kg/m2 or above or
- BMI > 27kg/m2 and an obesity health related condition such as high blood pressure, sleep apnoea or diabetes.
Medications can also assist with prevention of weight regain, when patients have lost their weight, and there has been an increase in the appetite hormones that promote weight regain.
They may also be helpful in patients who have had weight loss surgery and are experiencing weight regain.
Always discuss your suitability for weight loss medications, including benefits and side effects, with one of our medical doctors. Any prescribing is at the discretion of the treating practitioner and may not be suitable for everyone.
Bariatric-Metabolic Surgery Support
- Independent, balanced information about surgical options
- Pre-operative optimisation with your surgical team
- Post-operative medical and nutrition monitoring (incl. nutrient deficiency screening)
- Diet progression, lifestyle strategies and, where appropriate, adjunct medical therapies
- Surgery eligibility is determined by a qualified surgical team after comprehensive assessment
Common questions we can discuss:
What are my options? Is surgery right for me?
What if I’m not ready for surgery?
What if I’ve regained weight after surgery?
Mental Health & Behaviour Support
Emotions, stress and mental health can affect weight. Our team provides respectful, evidence-based psychological support tailored to you.
We can help with:
- Food cravings & emotional eating
- Binge-eating disorder
- ADHD-related challenges
- Anxiety & depression
- Self-sabotaging patterns
- Body-image concerns
- Alcohol or other drug use
Our approach:
- Holistic care focused on your goals
- Support from registered psychologists and mental health social workers
- Practical strategies and referrals as needed
- No one-size-fits-all; plans reviewed and adjusted over time
Physical Activity Guidance
- Our goal is to help you incorporate exercise to feel good and improve your health
- One-on-one support from our exercise physiologists
- Plans tailored to your abilities, limitations and preferences
- Focus on building strength and preserving muscle mass
Telehealth Appointments
One-on-one medical support from the comfort and convenience of your home.
We recommend a face-to-face consult with one of our medical doctors for an initial assessment.
Phone/video consults can then provide convenient access to one-on-one medical support.
Your clinician will advise if an in-person review is needed.
Facebook Community Group
Join a community with like-minded patients
At Alevia we are a community that supports one another. We know that doing weight loss alone can be difficult, so we have created a private Facebook support group where you can exchange tips, inspiration, recipes and other tools to help you with your weight loss journey!
Members Portal
Embark on your health journey with Alevia’s comprehensive membership portal, where convenience meets personalised care.
- Live Chats with Alevia doctors and dietitians for support between appointments
- Meal plans, recipes and shopping lists to make healthy eating easy
- Exercise videos you can do at home, to help build strength and burn energy
- Access to an exclusive and supportive Facebook community with patients sharing the same challenges and successes as you
Monthly Art Therapy Group
This monthly art therapy group offers a safe, creative space to explore the emotional side of your health and wellbeing journey.
Through guided art-making and gentle reflection, we’ll explore themes such as:
- Building self-worth and confidence
- Understanding emotional eating patterns
- Discovering healthy self-soothing strategies
- Reconnecting with values, meaning, and purpose
You don’t need to be “good” at art — it’s all about expression, not perfection.
Join online sessions, it’s easy to get started
Note: Online sessions, a list of suggested materials will be emailed to you. Feel free to use any art materials you have around the house. You will need to gather these before the session starts.
