B3 weight management
A 16-week pathway combining coordinated coaching with independent medical care, for people an independent licensed provider determines are appropriate candidates.
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A 16-week pathway
B3 runs for sixteen weeks. Contact the team for current program details.
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Coaching here, prescribing elsewhere
Personal Edge Fitness coaches and coordinates. An independent licensed medical provider makes every medical decision.
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Medical charges are separate
Medical visits and medication are handled and charged separately. Coverage depends on your circumstances and is not guaranteed.
Who this is for
Who this pathway is for
- You have lost the same twenty pounds more than once.
- The last program worked until it stopped, and nothing explained why.
- You have been given a meal plan and no way to live on it.
- Exercise has been prescribed as punishment for eating.
- You are doing more cardio than ever and the scale has not moved in months.
- You want this to be the last time you start.
What this is, and what it is not. Personal Edge Fitness provides coaching and coordination. An independent licensed medical provider is responsible for assessing medical suitability, making prescribing decisions and managing medical monitoring. Personal Edge Fitness does not prescribe medication and does not provide medical care. Medical visits and medication are handled and charged separately, and insurance coverage depends on individual circumstances and eligibility, so it is not guaranteed. Not every person who asks about B3 will be prescribed medication.
The reasoning
Why the weight comes back, and what a program has to include for it not to
Losing weight and keeping it off are two different problems, and most programs only solve the first. A sufficiently aggressive deficit will reliably produce loss for a while. What it also produces is a smaller, weaker body with a lower daily energy requirement and a set of habits that were only ever sustainable under supervision. That is the machinery of regain.
Two things change that arithmetic. The first is protecting muscle during the loss, because muscle is metabolically active tissue and losing it lowers the floor you eventually have to maintain. That means resistance training and adequate protein throughout, not cardio alone and not a deficit so steep the body starts consuming the thing you needed to keep.
The second is that the behaviors have to be ones you would still be doing in a year. A plan you can only follow perfectly is a plan that ends the first week life interferes. This is the part of weight loss that is coaching rather than prescription, and it is the part most programs skip because it is slow and cannot be sold as a transformation.
This is also why the number on the scale is a poor sole measure. Losing ten pounds of fat while gaining four of muscle is an excellent outcome that a bathroom scale reports as failure.
In plain English
- Energy deficit
- Taking in less than you expend. Necessary for fat loss, and counterproductive past a certain depth.
- Body composition
- What the weight is made of: fat, muscle, water, bone. The measure that actually matters, and the one a scale cannot give you.
- Adaptive thermogenesis
- The reduction in energy expenditure that follows sustained dieting. Real, well documented, and a large part of why regain is so common.
- Maintenance
- The phase after the loss. The one that decides whether any of it counted, and the one most programs do not include.
How it works
How the 16 weeks are put together
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An independent medical evaluation
A licensed medical provider, independent of Personal Edge Fitness, evaluates whether this GLP-1-based pathway is appropriate for you. That decision is theirs.
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Individualized exercise coaching
Resistance training matters here specifically: it is what helps protect muscle while weight comes off.
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Nutrition, behaviour and lifestyle coaching
Practical education around water, calories, protein, fibre and the patterns you actually repeat, rather than a list of forbidden foods.
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Coordination, so you are not the messenger
We coordinate the coaching side of the experience. Medical assessment, treatment and monitoring remain with your provider.
The consultation
What your complimentary consultation covers
It is a conversation with an exercise-science professional about where you are starting from. You should leave with useful insight whether or not you enroll.
A conversation with an exercise-science professional
You talk through what you want to be able to do, what has made exercise difficult before, and where you are starting from.
Your history, in full
Surgeries, injuries, the thing that flares up in cold weather, the sport you played at nineteen. It all changes the program.
Anything your care team has said
Bring restrictions, therapy notes or a post-operative protocol. We work inside them, and diagnosis and treatment decisions stay with your licensed providers.
Body composition, if it is useful to your goal
Body-composition assessment is available as part of getting started. Ask the team which measures are worth taking for what you want to achieve.
Something practical to take away
You should leave with useful insight into your options, whether or not you decide to train with us.
For this program specifically
What you have already tried, how long each attempt lasted, and what ended it. That history is the most useful information in the room, and there is nothing to be embarrassed about in it.
The studios behind this program
8,500
square feet indoors in Mobile
Under twenty foot ceilings, with a separate 2,400 square feet of covered outdoor area.
1,750
square feet at our Daphne studio
Personal Edge Fitness Eastern Shore, a boutique private studio. Approximate.
2
studios, in Mobile and Daphne
Serving Mobile and Baldwin counties. Mobile off the I-65 service road, Daphne on Highway 181.
Your coaching team
Who you would be working with
You work with a planned coaching team rather than being passed around at random.
A planned team, not a rota
Assignments are planned deliberately, so the people coaching you are chosen for complementary experience rather than whoever is free.
Shared notes
Your program, your history and what changed last session are written down and shared, so you are not starting the conversation again each time.
Continuity as your goals change
The same system is what lets your program keep moving when your goals, schedule or limitations change.
Exercise professionals, an intern and administration
Our practice brings all three together. Credentials are listed per person on the team page rather than claimed for the group.
Where we say no
What this program is, stated plainly
B3 coordinates Personal Edge Fitness coaching with medical weight-management care delivered by an independent licensed medical provider. We provide the fitness, nutrition, behaviour and lifestyle coaching and coordinate the experience. The provider evaluates whether this GLP-1-based pathway is appropriate for you, makes any prescribing decisions and manages medical monitoring. We do not prescribe medication and we do not provide medical care. Medical visits and medication are handled and charged separately, and not everyone who asks about B3 will be prescribed medication.
Common questions
Before you get in touch
How fast will I lose weight?
Nobody can answer that honestly before meeting you, and a program that quotes you a rate up front is quoting a marketing figure. What gets discussed at the consultation is a rate that preserves muscle, which is slower than the number you have seen advertised and considerably more likely to still be true next year.
Do I have to give up foods I like?
Permanently removing foods you enjoy is how programs end. The work is arranging your eating so the things you like fit inside it.
Is there medication involved?
B3 is a GLP-1-based pathway, and any prescribing decision is made by an independent licensed medical provider rather than by us. Whether it is appropriate for you is their assessment to make. If you would prefer a non-medication option, ask about Catalyst or In It to Lose It.
What makes this different from the last thing I tried?
Most likely that the last thing was a deficit without resistance training and without a maintenance phase. Whether that is true of yours is something the consultation will establish quickly.
How is progress measured?
Weight is one measure among several, and a noisy one on its own. Body-composition assessment is available. Ask the team what is measured and how often, so you know before you start.
What happens after the 16 weeks?
Ask the team. B3 is a 16-week pathway, and what follows it is a conversation to have with us and with your medical provider rather than something we would promise you in advance.
I have a lot to lose and I am not fit. Where do I even start?
With a conversation. The complimentary consultation exists for exactly this, and the first program is written for the body that walks in, not the one you think you should have arrived with.
Start with a conversation
Tell us your goal, where you are starting from and anything your care team has said. The initial consultation is complimentary, at either studio.