We are now offering Wegovy and Mounjaro!
Please contact us for more information!
Telehealth visits are available
for all our patients.
About Us
Vivek Gupta, MD, MPH, is a board-certified physician in obesity medicine and internal medicine. He leads Mindful Weight Loss, a medical weight loss clinic in Redondo Beach, California. In addition to his practice in medicine, Dr. Gupta is a daily practitioner of mindfulness meditation, which he integrates with his approach to helping patients. He is an MB-EAT practitioner trained through the Mindful Eating Training Institute with Andrea Lieberstein
Dr. Gupta is passionate about helping those who struggle with excess weight. Through his own struggles with losing weight, Dr. Gupta discovered that medical and non-medical tools could be useful. Dr. Gupta has personal experience of losing 40-50 pounds two separate times and knows that it is not easy to lose weight.
People's minds, bodies, environments, and perhaps even the people in their lives can be obstacles to weight loss success. However, with education and a supervised weight loss regimen, it is possible to overcome the formidable challenge of losing weight.
At its core, the goal is not merely a number on the scale but living our lives closer to our aspirations and values. To grow, we must first accept where we are in order to go where we want to be. At Mindful Weight Loss, Dr. Gupta will take the time to listen and get to know you, walk with you on the path of change, and help you to achieve a more authentic version of yourself.
A MINDFUL APPROACH TO
MEDICAL WEIGHT LOSS
Obesity is a disease. We evolved when calories were hard to come by, and our bodies developed systems to fight against efforts to lose our precious energy stores. In our modern world where food is plentiful, these same biological systems work against us.
At Mindful Weight Loss, we use medications, meal replacements, nutrition, physical activity, behavioral counseling, and mindfulness training to help overcome these obstacles and help you achieve your goals to become a healthier you. Now offering both in person and tele medicine visits.
WHY MINDFUL WEIGHT LOSS?
Eat less and exercise more. For decades this has been our health care systems weight loss prescription. At the same time, the men and women who struggle with their weight now include roughly 2 out of 3 Americans. Clearly something isn’t working. At Mindful Weight Loss, our goal is to bring something new to to the table. Using medications, counseling, education, meal replacements and mindfulness techniques, we will provide you with an individualized approach that is grounded in science and is possible, effective, and sustainable. The goal of Mindful Weight Loss is to help you achieve realistic goals to improve both you health and your life.
Scientifically-Based
As we treat hypertension and diabetes with medications, the disease of obesity often requires medications to help us with our physiologic and evolutionary impediments to lose weight in our calorie rich environment.
Individualized Nutrition
There is no one size approach to weight loss and health. Whether you prefer low carb, vegan, paleo, south beach, Mediterranean, I will work with whichever safe and effective nutritional plan works for you. We also offer meal replacements to help with a transition to better eating habits and goals.
Mindfulness
Our behaviors, including around food and health, are a result of the feelings, thoughts, and sensations. My treatment plan involves simple mindfulness techniques which can help us sit with our self generated negativity around food and health which can become an impediment to change and growth.
