Obesity & Metabolic Health | Sunrise Hospital — Medical Weight Management, Tested Not Lectured

Service 04 · Endocrinology & Diabetes

Willpower is not a diagnosis.

If weight were only arithmetic — eat less, move more — the world would be slim. In reality, obesity behaves like what it is: a metabolic condition where hormones, hunger signals, sleep and medicines all get a vote. Treating it as a character flaw hasn't worked for anyone.

So this programme starts with bloodwork, not a lecture: thyroid, sugars, insulin, lipids, liver — the treatable reasons the scale is stuck. Then a 3–6 month plan built around your actual metabolism, reviewed monthly, judged by numbers. Dr. Vikram Mehta, our metabolic lead, runs it.

The programme Endocrinology Centre

3–6 months — the programme runs
for months, not days

Why Diets Keep Failing

Six reasons the scale won't move — all testable

Every one of these is a diagnosis with a treatment. None of them is a character flaw.

An untreated thyroid

The classic hidden hand — fatigue, cold intolerance and a metabolism idling in first gear.

Insulin resistance

Cells ignoring insulin makes the body store first and burn never — the PCOS-diabetes corridor.

Hunger hormones

Leptin and ghrelin out of tune — appetite that isn't greed, it's chemistry asking for a test.

Broken sleep

Five short nights rewire appetite for a week — the most under-rated weight organ is the pillow.

Medications that gain

Steroids, some antidepressants, insulin and more — weight as a side effect, not a sin.

PCOS & other hormones

Cortisol excess, PCOS, menopause — whole endocrine chapters that read like "failed diets."

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Weight fluctuations that indicate underlying pathology

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Rapid weight gain with central adiposity, striae, and moon facies — suggests possible Cushing's syndrome; requires cortisol evaluation and imaging.

Unintentional weight loss with increased appetite, heat intolerance, and tachycardia — indicates possible hyperthyroidism; thyroid function testing required.

Recurrent episodes of tremor, diaphoresis, and confusion resolving with food intake — suggestive of reactive hypoglycemia; requires fasting glucose and insulin assessment.

Excessive daytime somnolence with loud snoring — may indicate obstructive sleep apnea, a significant contributor to metabolic dysfunction and cardiovascular risk.

Weight gain accompanied by dyspnea or peripheral edema — may indicate fluid retention secondary to cardiac or renal etiology; requires same-week clinical review.

The First Visit

Bloodwork before bandwidth

A 20–25 minute consult, a full metabolic panel, body composition measured — and advice that finally fits the evidence.

Metabolic panel

Thyroid, sugars, insulin, lipids, liver enzymes — the fatty-liver and cholesterol panels included.

Body composition

Fat and muscle measured, not guessed — because "overweight but strong" and "normal but metabolically unwell" are different conversations.

Hormone screens

Where the story suggests it — cortisol, PCOS workup, testosterone — the "gland problems" people are told don't exist.

The plain-words verdict

What's driving the weight, what's fixable, what the honest target is — printed, itemised, yours.

The 3–6 Month Programme

Months, not days

Anything that works in a week un-works in two. The programme runs on monthly milestone reviews — weight, waist, sugars, liver — adjusting the plan to your body's actual response.

Start with the Workup

Dietitian sessions, weekly — food plans for real kitchens, real budgets, real festivals
Exercise prescriptions — written like medicine: dose, frequency, progression
Medication when truly needed — and only then; explained honestly, including stop-plan
Treating the cause — thyroid corrected, insulin resistance addressed, PCOS managed
Fatty-liver & cholesterol tracks — the silent companions, followed with panels
Monthly milestone reviews — measured, discussed, and the plan adjusted, not repeated

Judged by numbers, not the scale

Waist, HbA1c, cholesterol, liver enzymes. Weight is one line on a report card with five subjects — and it isn't the important one.

The diabetes detour

Modest, kept-off weight meaningfully lowers the road to type 2 diabetes — the single best return on this programme's effort.

No judgment, on the record

No shaming printouts, no miracle promises. You'll get honest expectations in writing — including how slow healthy actually is.

Your Metabolic Team

Led by the department's diabetologist

The Endocrine Team

10+ yrs exp

Dr. Priyamvada Tyagi

Endocrinology & Diabetes

MBBS- LLRM Medical College, Meerut, UP Consult Dr. Tyagi

The dietitian bench

Weekly sessions with dietitians who plan around your kitchen, your budget and your festivals — because a diet you can't live with is a diet that won't work.

When hormones are the story

Cortisol, PCOS, thyroid, menopause — Dr. Sharma's endocrine workup joins the programme whenever the bloodwork says hormones are driving.

Clinic Information

Comprehensive consultation with printed care plan

First consultations are 20–25 minutes — allowing thorough clinical history, hormonal assessment, and a personalized treatment plan discussed in detail with the patient.

Schedule Consultation

Hormone OPD ScheduleMon, Wed, Fri, Sat · 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM

Clinic ClosedTuesday, Thursday & Sunday

First Consultation20–25 minutes · ₹600 – ₹1,000

Day 2–3 Hormone PanelOn-site — results reviewed and explained during follow-up

Pelvic UltrasoundSame-visit coordination available

Nutritional CounselingComplimentary — Hindi & English

Insurance & Cashless40+ TPAs · PM-JAY accepted

Common Questions

The questions behind the question

What patients really want to know about medical weight management — usually starting with "but is it just me?"

All 27 FAQs

No — and the workup usually proves it in writing. Discipline is real, but it operates inside a metabolism shaped by hormones, sleep, medicines and insulin. We test the machinery before we ever discuss the willpower.

Slower than the advertisements promise and faster than despair suggests — a steady, sustainable pace, reviewed monthly against waist, sugars and liver, not just kilograms. The goal is weight that stays gone, and that's a months-long project by nature.

Most patients don't. Medicines are added when they're genuinely needed — and always with a stop-plan or a review plan in writing. If the driver is a treatable hormone problem, fixing that is the real exit strategy.

That's exactly what we test for — thyroid, cortisol, insulin, PCOS. Sometimes "my glands" is a folk explanation; sometimes it's precisely, provably right. Either way you leave knowing which, with numbers attached.

This is a medical programme — workups, diet, medication, follow-up. When weight is driven by a treatable hormone cause, that's the surgery-free answer we hunt for first; and you'll always get an honest account of where you stand and what we'd advise next.

Comprehensive Metabolic Assessment

A thorough workup first. Then a treatment plan.

Metabolic consultations available Mon, Wed, Fri & Sat, 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM. Complete bloodwork and body-composition analysis conducted during your first visit — ensuring every recommendation is clinically informed.

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