Struggling to lose weight despite making changes to your diet and lifestyle? For most people who cannot shift weight, there are underlying medical, hormonal, and metabolic factors at play that no generic diet plan addresses, because they require clinical assessment, not calorie counting.
Our doctors, registered with the Romanian College of Physicians (CMR), offer comprehensive weight management consultations by secure video call, identifying the clinical factors contributing to your weight, building a personalised management plan, and providing the medical supervision that makes sustainable change possible.
This is not a diet programme. It is medical care, provided by doctors, for a medical condition.
Who This Service Is For
This consultation is appropriate for adults who:
- Have difficulty losing weight despite dietary and lifestyle changes
- Have a BMI of 25 or above and are seeking structured medical support
Have weight-related conditions, including pre-diabetes, insulin resistance, hypertension, or PCOS, that are contributing to or complicating their weight
Want to understand whether they may be candidates for medical weight management therapies following clinical assessment
- Have tried diet and exercise approaches without sustainable results
- Are preparing for or considering bariatric surgery and are seeking medical assessment
- Want ongoing medical monitoring of their metabolic health alongside weight management
- Are expats or international residents in Romania who want weight management support in English
Why Medical Supervision Makes a Difference
Most weight management approaches fail not through lack of effort but because they do not address the underlying clinical picture. Hormonal imbalance, insulin resistance, medication side effects, sleep disorders, and metabolic dysfunction all contribute to weight gain in ways that diet and exercise alone cannot resolve.
Specifically:
- Insulin resistance causes the body to store fat regardless of caloric deficit
- Hypothyroidism slows metabolism, often significantly, independent of diet
- PCOS disrupts hormonal balance and makes weight loss genuinely more difficult
- Cortisol dysregulation affects how the body distributes fat
Medication side effects, antidepressants, antipsychotics, corticosteroids, beta-blockers, can cause significant weight gain as a direct pharmacological effect
Medical assessment can identify factors that a diet plan alone does not address and help your doctor adapt your management plan.
What Your Consultation Includes
Comprehensive medical assessment. Your doctor reviews your medical history, current medications, metabolic risk factors, hormonal profile, dietary patterns, physical activity, sleep quality, stress levels, and previous weight management attempts, building a complete clinical picture of the factors contributing to your weight.
Identification of underlying causes. Your doctor assesses hormonal contributors, including thyroid dysfunction, insulin resistance, PCOS, and cortisol dysregulation, metabolic factors, medication-related weight gain, and lifestyle elements that interact with your biology.
Personalised weight management plan. Based on the assessment, your doctor develops a structured, evidence-based plan adapted to your BMI, health status, lifestyle, and long-term goals, including nutritional strategy, behavioural approach, metabolic health optimisation, and clinical recommendations at the doctor's professional discretion.
Assessment for medical weight management therapies. For patients who meet the clinical criteria, your doctor assesses eligibility for evidence-based medical weight management therapies as part of a comprehensive clinical assessment. Eligibility is determined by clinical criteria (BMI, weight-related comorbidities, previous treatment history, contraindications, and general health status), not by patient preference.
Investigation requests where indicated. Where blood tests are clinically indicated, thyroid function, fasting glucose, HbA1c, hormonal profile, lipid panel, your doctor issues the request on the same day.
Electronic prescription: where clinically appropriate. When clinically indicated, your doctor issues an electronic prescription through SIPE. You present it at any pharmacy of your choice in Romania.
Ongoing reviewWeight management is a long-term clinical process. Follow-up consultations are available to monitor progress, review treatment response, and adjust your plan.
Conditions Commonly Assessed
- Metabolic
- Overweight and obesity: BMI 25 and above
- Insulin resistance and pre-diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes: weight management as part of metabolic control
- Metabolic syndrome
- High cholesterol and triglycerides
- Hormonal
- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)
- Hypothyroidism associated with weight gain
- Cortisol dysregulation and stress-related weight gain
- Metabolic changes associated with menopause
- Cardiovascular
- Hypertension associated with excess weight
- Cardiovascular risk reduction through weight management
- Other
- Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
- Obstructive sleep apnoea
- Joint pain related to excess weight
- Fertility concerns related to weight and hormonal status
Weight Management in Romania: What to Expect
Private weight management services in Romania are available but predominantly clinic-based and concentrated in Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, and Timișoara. For patients outside Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, and Timișoara, or for anyone without a registered family doctor, accessing structured medical weight management is practically difficult, regardless of language preference.
Global Health provides comprehensive medical weight management consultations in English, including full metabolic assessment, personalised management planning, and assessment for medical weight management therapies where clinically appropriate, by secure video call, from anywhere in Romania.
