Manage your weight loss with a LEAF Physician and the LEAF® Program that’s right for you.

A few of the weight management strategies you’ll discuss with your LEAF® Physician.

Our team has decades of experience helping patients reach their health goals. Your unique weight management needs are met through carefully designed evidence-based programs and use of key weight management tools.

  • Medical Guidance

  • Weight Management Medication

  • Meal Replacement

  • Physician Visit (OHIP Covered)

Working with a LEAF® Physician.

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  • Learn about LEAF®’s Registered Dietitian-led weight management programs.

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Some of the LEAF® Programs you can access after you meet with your LEAF® Physician.

Our programs, LEAF ROOT and LEAF STREAM, are designed by LEAF Physicians and Registered Dietitians and are based on best practice clinical evidence. This means your weight loss will occur in a healthy manner and will be sustainable over the long-term. 

Our programs also provide participants with either full or partial Optifast®900 Meal Replacement, depending on the program you are enrolled in.

LEAF ROOT® Program

We take the time to learn about you— your weight journey, health, food preferences and hunger patterns. Your LEAF Registered Dietitian will set healthy, achievable goals and provide nutrition counselling and meal planning. They will create a nutrition and behaviour change plan that helps you achieve your health and weight goals.

LEAF ROOT gives you the choice of partial meal replacement (up to 2 shakes per day) with Optifast®900 Meal Replacement. 

 

• 24 weeks
• Meet with a LEAF Physician and Registered Dietitian monthly
• Medical Nutrition Therapy 
• Meal Planning 
• Option for partial Optifast®900 Meal Replacement 

Cost: $750.00 (Plus, the cost for meal replacement.)

Designed to support those whose goal is to lose 5% to 10% of their starting weight.

LEAF STREAM® Program

If your goal is to lose up to 20% of your starting weight, LEAF STREAM might be right for you. You will be on a full meal replacement (Four Optifast®900 shakes a day) for the first 12 weeks of the program and then gradually transition back to a food-focused structured meal plan for the last 12 weeks. Each week, you will meet with one of our LEAF Physicians who specialize in bariatric medicine to medically monitor you throughout the program.

 

• 24 weeks
• Meet with a LEAF Physician weekly
• Weekly Registered Dietitian-led group weight management counselling 
• Meal Replacement (Optifast®900)
• Meal Planning 
• Access to OnDemand Learning

Cost: $2,800.00 (Plus, the cost for meal replacement).

Designed to support those whose goal is to lose 10% to 20% of their starting weight.

LEAF® BLOOM Program

Have you been advised to lose weight in preparation for orthopaedic surgery? If so, then LEAF® BLOOM might make a great fit for you. LEAF® BLOOM is a fully virtual program with medical supervision and treatment from a weight loss physician specialist.

At LEAF, Our team is dedicated to developing a personalized weight-loss program to help you achieve your health and weight goals, ensuring you’re prepared for orthopaedic surgery.

 

• 12 bi-weekly Group Sessions over 24 weeks
• Optimized Nutrition Plans to Leverage Weight Loss
• Medical Supervision and Treatment 
• 24/7 Access to Learning Portal 

Cost: $600.00 (Cost of additional supplementary meal replacement and medications are not included).

Designed specifically for pre-orthopaedic surgery patients who need to lose at least 10% of their body weight.

What you can expect from every LEAF® program

  • Medical Nutrition Therapy

    Our approach goes beyond ‘eat less, move more’ and willpower. Work with a registered dietitian to craft an eating approach that is unique to you and meets your needs. Build nutritional skill power with the guidance of a registered dietitian.

  • Behaviour Change Support

    We take the time to learn about you and your weight journey. If you are stuck in unhelpful patterns that just aren’t leading to a healthier, happier you, we can help you get unstuck and move closer to achieving your goals.

  • Professional Supervision

    We are a team of specialized doctors and allied health professionals who are committed to helping you reach and maintain a healthy weight using the core tools of self-care and behaviour change plus medical tools approved for addressing the complex health condition of obesity.