Lost the weight? How do you keep it off?
That is the part most programs leave you to work out alone. It is the part we are built around. Medical weight loss and behavioural change run as one program, so what you build stays with you when the medication stops.
The prescription is not the program.
The difference between losing it and keeping it off is what gets built along the way.
At Anova, the medical and the behavioural are one program, managed together. Medical treatment quietens the constant hum of thoughts about food, and the behavioural work is timed to that exact quiet: while the medication opens the window, you build the habits, skills and steadiness that remain when it closes. Each side makes the other stronger. We call what you keep behavioural capital: built week by week, and yours for good.
Weight loss is a navigation, not a number.
How the method builds it
For the people weight care usually overlooks.
Lost weight before, on a diet or on medication, and watched it come back? That's physiology, not failure. Nearly everyone here is starting again. This time, build the things that make it stay.
You've spent decades being told to try harder. We'd rather listen, then map what's really going on.
No lectures, no waiting rooms. A clear, practical plan you can actually run with.
The habits you build now are the ones you keep. Start with skills, not diets.
Not a diet. A navigation system, built by psychologists.
Most programs ask how people lose weight. We ask a different question: what do people who keep it off actually do? Your answer starts with a whole-person snapshot and becomes your own map: what pushes you, what pulls you off course, what keeps you steady, and who helps you stay found.
Evidence & guidance
We provide the map. You choose the direction.
Decisions in hard moments
For cravings, stress and low motivation: respond rather than react.
Your personal map
No two maps are the same. Yours starts with a whole-person snapshot.
Discover ends with your Starting Map and one First Focus: the single thing to work on first. Small focus. Big change.
Four phases, start to steady.
Discover
A whole-person snapshot and your one First Focus.
Nourish
Protein, sleep, variety, steady energy.
Rewire
Habits and emotions, worked with, not against.
Thrive & Protect
Live your life. Know your way back.
Discover ends with your Starting Map and one First Focus: the single thing to work on first. Small focus. Big change.
How loud is your food noise?
Some of the method you have to experience. This part you can try right now. Food noise is the mental load of eating: how often food is on your mind, how hard the thoughts are to put down, how much of your day it quietly takes. It is the first thing the method measures, because you can't work with what you haven't named. Slide to where today sits. Whatever your number, it isn't a verdict: it's a starting point, and watching what moves it is where your map begins.
Food is sharing your headspace more than it deserves. Here we'd start with your map: what turns the volume up (stress, short sleep, skipped meals, environment) and which anchors turn it down. Small structural moves, regular protein, a planned day, a kitchen that works with you, often lower the hum more than willpower ever did. If you're on treatment, this is a signal worth logging: the hum you bring to each consultation helps shape your plan.
Care that runs with your GP, not around them.
Your GP stays at the centre. Anova's Clinical Lead, Dr Andrew Sax (FRACGP), sets the clinical protocols and owns escalation, and your GP sees what's happening because they're part of it.
Referred by your GP? You're in the right place. They stay in the loop at every step.
The script opens the window. The program builds in it.
Dose and behaviour are intertwined. Medical treatment quietens food noise, and that quiet is precisely the window in which durable habits can be built. A script without that build leaves your patient's result resting on the medication alone, and their considerable investment of money, effort and hope resting with it.
Your referral brings dedicated medical weight care together with the other half of the treatment: the behavioural build that helps your patient keep the weight off. Our Clinical Lead, Dr Andrew Sax (FRACGP), owns the medical protocols and escalation and, with patient consent, keeps you apprised of progress and alerted to any issues. He works hand in hand with Natalie Turvey, Anova's Behavioural Method Lead and a Registered Psychologist, to deliver comprehensive, complete care to your patient.
Your patients are doing the hard part. They deserve every chance of keeping what they build.
I'm interested in referringThe questions everyone asks. Answered in the open.
Weight care in Australia runs on vagueness: about what works, why it fails, and what it costs. We'd rather put the answers where you can read them. And when you speak with our team, you get exact figures before you're asked to commit to anything.
The clearest thinking on weight health.
Evidence-led writing on the things that decide a long-term result.
Evidence, not hype. One considered email, every so often. No selling.
Whether you're starting out or starting again, speak with our team.
One message, and the right person replies. Curious about the program, a GP thinking about referring, or keen to work with us: it all starts here.