Carolinas Weight Loss Institute

Carolinas Weight Loss Institute Led by clinic director, Dr. Lidia Adkins, a functional medicine doctor.
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The Carolinas Weight Loss Institute, with offices throughout North Carolina, is the leading weight loss clinic focused on dealing with the functional causes of weight loss. The Carolinas Weight Loss Institute, with locations in Gastonia, Forest City, Matthews, Columbus and Morganton, is the leading weight loss clinic in NC focused on dealing with the functional causes of weight loss.

💥25 lbs gone💥 with 8 Week Transformation for Shannon! Reminder- the journey is not a straightforward line! The ups and d...
11/21/2025

💥25 lbs gone💥 with 8 Week Transformation for Shannon!
Reminder- the journey is not a straightforward line! The ups and down are real. And, as we all know it, the journey is not perfect. Doing it imperfectly, beats perfect inaction every single day, every single month and every single season. We are so incredibly proud of all our patients, local and remote for prioritizing their health and achieving beautiful results in seasons!

Shannon, we admire your commitment to your transformation. Your results are beautiful. Thank you for allowing us to use your story and inspire so many!

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Schedule a free consultation at any of our locations: call or text 704-271-9757. Go here request online: https://carolinasweightloss.com/booking

CWLI Locations:
Gastonia (and long distance): 704-271-9757
Forest City: 828-245-0202
Columbus: 828-894-9910
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Matthews/Ballantyne: 704-321-4663
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Greenville, SC: 864-268-4600

Do you ever experience any of these 👇🏻? Here are some ‘first whispering signs’ I collected, after over a decade of pract...
11/20/2025

Do you ever experience any of these 👇🏻?

Here are some ‘first whispering signs’ I collected, after over a decade of practicing Weight Loss, based on a Functional Medicine model.

While everyone is different, and signs or symptoms overlap, these seem to be reliable. They can help address the issue before the symptoms ‘scream’ and before the labs are off. Prevention is key. Once it shows on labs, you are in ‘pathological range’, meaning disease or very close to having a diagnosis!

1. The we first sign of metabolic ‘slow down’ is not gaining 20 lbs over night. It’s a combo: clothes fitting a little tighter, bloat, snacking a little more, losing the same 4 lbs over and over again…

2. The first sign of dehydration is not thirst. It’s lack of energy, body aches.

3. The first sign of protein deficiency is not muscle loss. It’s fatigue, mood swings.

4. The first sign of fiber deficiency is not constipation. It’s feeling hungry soon after you eat.

5. The first sign of menopause is not hot flashes. It’s constant brain fog, unexplained anxiety .

6. The first sign of Iron deficiency is not anemia. It’s pale skin, dark eye circles, cold hands, craving ice.

7. The first sign of vit D deficiency is not weak bones. It’s unexplained depression, feelings of doom.

8. The first sign of vit B 12 deficiency is not lack of energy, it’s feeling ‘pins and needles’ in your hands and feet.

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Schedule a free consultation at any of our locations: call or text 704-271-9757. Go here request online: https://carolinasweightloss.com/booking

CWLI Locations:
Gastonia (and long distance): 704-271-9757
Forest City: 828-245-0202
Columbus: 828-894-9910
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Matthews/Ballantyne: 704-321-4663
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Greenville, SC: 864-268-4600

Claiming back what’s yours- your health, your body, your future independence. 💥61 lbs💥 for Pam. Pam, congratulations for...
11/20/2025

Claiming back what’s yours- your health, your body, your future independence.

💥61 lbs💥 for Pam. Pam, congratulations for reaching your goals. We admire your focus and commitment to your transformation. Your results are beautiful. Thank you for allowing us to be part of your journey. Keep shining and inspiring! 💪🏻✨

START, even if skeptical! Decide to invest in yourself. Be uncomfortable for a few weeks, to be comfortable for years to come!

Sustainable weight loss and metabolic health doesn't have to be complicated. At the same time, a cookie cutter approach is not the answer... and "eat less, exercise more" is not enough for everyone.
Achieving metabolic health requires a personalized approach to weight loss, addressing chemical and hormonal imbalances responsible for your metabolic slow down.

💗If you are working hard and doing everything right but you are stuck at weight loss, then it's time to reach out. We would love to help you too!

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Schedule a free consultation at any of our locations: call or text 704-271-9757. Go here request online: https://carolinasweightloss.com/booking

CWLI Locations:
Gastonia (and long distance): 704-271-9757
Forest City: 828-245-0202
Columbus: 828-894-9910
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Matthews/Ballantyne: 704-321-4663
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Greenville, SC: 864-268-4600

11/19/2025

Some consults go like this... "I’m happy but I want more. I used to lose much faster 10 years ago". Yeah, that's before total hysterectomy and an auto-immune diagnosis...
Let’s keep going!!

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Schedule a free consultation at any of our locations: call or text 704-271-9757. Go here request online: https:// carolinasweightloss.com/booking
CWLI Locations:
Gastonia (and long distance): 704-271-9757
Forest City: 828-245-0202
Columbus: 828-894-9910
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Matthews/Ballantyne: 704-321-4663
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Greenville, SC: 864-268-4600

11/19/2025

If you feel stuck 👉🏻 you already know what to do. You just haven't done it enough yet. Back to the basics, do the clean up, then repeat. Success is about staying consistent with small, repeated actions that build up and produce results over time. 🤍

Amazing people, achieving incredible results in any season! Huge shoutout to Quintin tonight! 🎉 Over the past 8 weeks he...
11/18/2025

Amazing people, achieving incredible results in any season! Huge shoutout to Quintin tonight! 🎉 Over the past 8 weeks he's shown incredible dedication and resilience by losing 43 lbs! Above and beyond results deserve to be recognized and celebrated big time.

Quintin, your hard work, discipline, and commitment to your journey are truly inspiring. Keep pushing forward; we're all so proud of you! 💪🏻💥

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Schedule a free consultation at any of our locations: call or text 704-271-9757. Go here request online: https://carolinasweightloss.com/booking

CWLI Locations:
Gastonia (and long distance): 704-271-9757
Forest City: 828-245-0202
Columbus: 828-894-9910
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Matthews/Ballantyne: 704-321-4663
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Greenville, SC: 864-268-4600

You miss so much at weight loss and health if you ignore your ‘non-negotiables’! This one is huge 👇🏻Being consistent wit...
11/18/2025

You miss so much at weight loss and health if you ignore your ‘non-negotiables’! This one is huge 👇🏻

Being consistent with this vitamin daily, can increase your weight loss by 2 lbs a month even if you don’t change anything else! Now, 2 lbs fat loss in a month, may not seem significant enough, except maybe if I told that, in order to lose 2 pounds, you need to create a total calorie deficit of 7,000 calories. See more about vit D and weight loss 👇🏻.

🧠 🌧️ Among other health benefits, vitamin D is a game changer when it comes to depression, including seasonal affective disorder.

Other general health benefits:
~Weight management; people deficient in vitamin D, have a higher risk of becoming obese and developing complications related to obesity. Studies link appropriate vit D level with decreased belly fat and decreased BMI!
~Helps regulate immune functiont
~Prevents development of auto-immune conditions
~Improves brain function and mood regulation by balancing
~Prevents demyelination which is important when it comes to neurodegenerative disorders including Alzheimer's or other form of dementia
(ana not only)
~Improves brain alertness

💥More on Vit D and Weight Loss:
Your Vitamin D level can determine if your calories turn into fat or muscle!

A study 📚 published by Jeffrey Roizen et al in 2024, shows that your vitamin D levels determine if you turn your excess calories into fat, or if you allocate them to your muscle where they are used for muscle growth.

🧬Here are the 2 mechanisms explained in the study:
- Improves leptin sensitivity- a hormone that tells your brain to decrease appetite and increase calorie burn.
- It decreases myostatin production- a hormone that stops muscle growth.

The intrinsic ‘dance’ between these 2 mechanisms impacts not only how you burn your calories, but it impacts your body composition.

Same weight, different composition!
Same calories, different use!

🧬The study concludes that high dose vitamin D allocates excess calories to build muscle instead of be stored as fat by increasing leptin production and sensitivity and decreasing myostatin activity.

Other Things to consider:
✅When it comes to inflammation and promoting an anti-inflammatory lifestyle, studies show a powerful synergy when it comes to combining vitamin D3 and omega3 fatty acids. When taken together, they provide superior anti-inflammatory benefits.
✅If you have been taking a vitamin D but your level is still low, you may also be deficient in Magnesium. Magnesium is required to activate vitamin D.
✅When you take vit D long term, it is important to take it in a vitD/ K combo to prevent calcium build up in arteries and other soft tissues.

Friends, I hope you find this post helpful. Please share it with others who can benefit from this info
Ask any questions in the comments section below this post and as always, thank you for your feedback and interest.

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Schedule a free consultation at any of our locations: call or text 704-271-9757. Go here request online: https:// carolinasweightloss.com/booking

CWLI Locations:
Gastonia (and long distance): 704-271-9757
Forest City: 828-245-0202
Columbus: 828-894-9910
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Matthews/Ballantyne: 704-321-4663
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Greenville, SC: 864-268-4600


Look!! 👀 👇🏻 It is possible to achieve incredible weight loss like Lara’s in 8 short weeks with your CWLI Transformation!...
11/18/2025

Look!! 👀 👇🏻 It is possible to achieve incredible weight loss like Lara’s in 8 short weeks with your CWLI Transformation! 💥25 lbs💥 thinner, healthier and stronger.

Lara’s weight loss journey consisted of an individualized anti-inflammatory nutrition plan combined use of proprietary CWLI metabolic products to help maximize weightloss, regulate appetite control centers, and improve chemical and hormonal imbalances responsible for her metabolic slow down.

Lara, we are beyond proud to be part of your story! Thank you for allowing us to share your story and inspire so many!

Friend, it’s NEVER too late to start working on yourself! Imagine yourself, 25 lbs thinner and healthier- in 8 WEEKS! We can help you reach your goals. Reach out, even if you are skeptical. Even if it sounds too good to be true. Let’s have a conversation and make your goals happen. Make sure to mention ‘THANKSGIVING2025’ for the current special.

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Schedule a free consultation at any of our locations: call or text 704-271-9757. Go here request online: https://carolinasweightloss.com/booking

CWLI Locations:
Gastonia (and long distance): 704-271-9757
Forest City: 828-245-0202
Columbus: 828-894-9910
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Matthews/Ballantyne: 704-321-4663
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Greenville, SC: 864-268-4600

What does this 👇🏻 mean for you? Especially if you are a woman (or man as a matter of fact), past 40 and struggling with ...
11/17/2025

What does this 👇🏻 mean for you? Especially if you are a woman (or man as a matter of fact), past 40 and struggling with weight loss and health. What it doesn’t mean- you don’t have to jump on hormonal replacements first!

Regulation or dysregulation of hormones, involves specific mechanisms- hormonal production, secretion, binding, activating, cellular receptors, hormonal interaction, feedback loops, detoxification- being some. While these mechanisms rely heavy on proper nutrition, sometimes that’s just not enough. Use of nutraceuticals to fill in the gap, immune support, proper detoxification can help optimize these mechanisms. In some cases, hormonal therapies may be needed. However, hormonal therapies are not gonna be effective if the basics are not covered first. Start with your nutrition and gut and identify your inflammatory triggers.

This 👇🏻 is why, our weight loss approach focuses, directly or indirectly, on fine tuning these pathways. By utilizing specific products, along with targeted nutrition while patients are on the plan. We focus on adrenal health, immune modulation, blood sugar, gut. And when needed, we go a little deeper.

You don’t have to stay a ‘stranger in your body’ forever. There are answers! Reach out if you feel stuck. We would love to help you too💗

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Schedule a free consultation at any of our locations: call or text 704-271-9757. Go here request online: https:// carolinasweightloss.com/booking

CWLI Locations:
Gastonia (and long distance): 704-271-9757
Forest City: 828-245-0202
Columbus: 828-894-9910
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Matthews/Ballantyne: 704-321-4663
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Greenville, SC: 864-268-4600

When you make the decision to care again… you show up for yourself daily, you trust the process, then you watch your bo...
11/17/2025

When you make the decision to care again… you show up for yourself daily, you trust the process, then you watch your body transform within weeks. Kathy, congratulations on your 💥24 lbs💥 weight loss. You look beautiful. Thank you for allowing us to use your story and inspire so many!

Friends, a healthy body is the ultimate sign of self-respect. The journey requires hard work, dedication, and a will to press on through all the ups and downs.

Healing from the inside out is the only approach towards achieving lasting results. It requires hard work and patience. A diet pill, shot surgery or another 'miracle potion' is not the answer to lasting weight loss and metabolic health. Sometimes you need the bandaid, you need the bridge. But the bandaid is not the permanent solution.

Getting lean, thin AND strong is possible at any age and in every season. Let's keep healing together!💗

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Schedule a free consultation at any of our locations: call or text 704-271-9757. Go here request online: https://carolinasweightloss.com/booking

CWLI Locations:
Gastonia (and long distance): 704-271-9757
Forest City: 828-245-0202
Columbus: 828-894-9910
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Matthews/Ballantyne: 704-321-4663
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Greenville, SC: 864-268-4600

11/16/2025

This question was on repeat last week: should I start my weight-loss plan now or should I wait until January? My answer: the sooner you commit, the sooner you fight your demons, the sooner you get to your ultimate goal. But here’s more 👇🏻:

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Schedule a free consultation at any of our locations: call or text 704-271-9757. Go here request online: https://carolinasweightloss.com/booking

CWLI Locations:
Gastonia (and long distance): 704-271-9757
Forest City: 828-245-0202
Columbus: 828-894-9910
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Matthews/Ballantyne: 704-321-4663
Morganton: 828-475-6920
Greenville, SC: 864-268-4600

Back to this reminder. Do you agree and have you experienced this 👇🏻? Let's make it a strong Sunday friends! 💪🏻💗
11/16/2025

Back to this reminder. Do you agree and have you experienced this 👇🏻? Let's make it a strong Sunday friends! 💪🏻💗

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Charlotte, NC

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Monday 7am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 7am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 7am - 12pm

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+17042719757

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http://www.carolinasweightloss.com/

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Carolinas Weight Loss Institute is the leading weight loss clinic in NC focused on dealing with the functional causes of weight loss. Led by clinic director, Dr. Lidia Adkins, a functional medicine doctor, the Institute has locations throughout North Carolina in Gastonia, Forest City, Columbus, Clinton, Morganton and Matthews/Ballantyne. CWLI’s flagship program is the "40 Day Transformation" system. Because the program is physician developed and administered it is tailored to the unique metabolic needs of each individual. Thank you for visiting our page. We are looking forward to helping you achieve your goals.