2026 Isn't About a Number on the Scale — It's About Having Energy and Mobility to Do What You Want

It’s a new year, and you want it to include a new you. You have weight loss goals and want to reach them. It’s not only about the number on the scale for you. You really want to change your life. 

At Turnquest Surgical Solutions, we offer a medically supervised weight loss program under the direction of our expert medical professionals, Dexter Turnquest, MD, and Victoria C. Chang, MD. 

If you haven’t been able to lose weight on your own, there’s no shame in getting help to meet your weight loss goals. In fact, it’s the healthy thing to do. 

Focus on your weight loss goals

Keep the focus on why you want to lose weight. Those motivations are the path to success. Here are just some of the goals our patients share with us about why losing weight is a priority. 

More energy

You want to be able to get down on the floor and play with your children or grandchildren. Right now, that’s not possible; you can’t get back up by yourself. Excess weight often leads to a sedentary, low-energy lifestyle. It’s increasingly harder to get up off the couch. 

You tell your doctors you just haven’t had the energy to exercise. There are physiological reasons for that. Because of excess body mass, your muscles must work harder when you move. 

Once you lose weight, your muscles require less energy, so you won’t feel as tired carrying out your normal daily routine.  

Greater mobility

Being obese may have already diminished your mobility. You may shop for groceries using a scooter with a basket instead of walking through the store with a cart. Being unable to walk freely where you want to go is frustrating. 

Once you lose weight, you can lose the scooter. You’ll be able to keep pace with your kids as you play with them, take a walk, or go shopping. 

Ability to breathe better 

Trying to exercise when you’re obese or significantly overweight is difficult. Exercising requires you to breathe more deeply and more frequently. 

You may be short of breath even without moving. Excess fat may be pushing against your diaphragm, making it difficult for your lungs to expand. Once you lose weight, you’ll be able to breathe deeply again. 

Less pain and inflammation 

You may be tired of painful joints. Excess fat increases inflammation markers in your body. Inflammation increases your pain levels. Losing weight helps reduce the load on your hips, knees, ankles, and feet. If your joints could talk, they would thank you for losing weight. 

Our medically supervised weight loss program works

We provide a comprehensive weight loss approach that includes nutritional recommendations, exercise guidance, and lifestyle coaching, in addition to injections. 

We now have a new class of drugs that help speed your weight loss and help you reach your weight loss goals. If you’re obese or have a condition like diabetes, your insurance may cover most of the cost of these drugs. 

Our program provides crucial support in your weight loss journey.

Call us at one of our two Houston, Texas, locations or request an appointment through our online portal today if you’re ready for a physical transformation that has psychological benefits.