Medical Weight Loss Clinic Near Great Falls, VA

BeLite Medical Center is a physician-supervised weight loss practice in the City of Fairfax, about 16 miles south of Great Falls. BeLite has been treating weight loss since 1995, and our Fairfax office has served patients from Great Falls, Dranesville and across Northern Virginia since 1996. Your first consultation is free.

Where is BeLite in relation to Great Falls?

We are at 3923 Blenheim Blvd, Suite 61A, Fairfax, VA 22030, just south of Fairfax Circle. Free parking is available at the office park. It is free, which is worth mentioning on this page in particular.

Driving from Great Falls: From the Village Centre at Georgetown Pike and Walker Road, take Walker Road south to Route 7 (Leesburg Pike), go west a short distance to the Fairfax County Parkway, and follow the Parkway south to Route 50 (Lee Jackson Memorial Highway). Turn east on Route 50 and stay with it into the City of Fairfax, where it becomes Fairfax Boulevard; continue toward Fairfax Circle and follow the signs onto Blenheim Boulevard south to 3923 Blenheim Boulevard, Suite 61A. The alternative, and often the better one from the eastern side of Great Falls, is Georgetown Pike east to Route 123 and then south on 123 through Tysons and Vienna into Fairfax.

Estimated driving time: approximately 30 to 40 minutes, depending on which route you take and how Tysons or the Parkway is running.

By public transit: there is none. Great Falls has no Metro station and no useful bus service toward Fairfax; the nearest Silver Line stations are a drive away in Reston or Tysons, and from either you would still have to ride east and then back out again on the Orange Line. Everyone who comes to us from Great Falls drives.

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What does the program involve?

BeLite specializes in the pharmacotherapy of obesity: prescription medications that reduce hunger and cravings, combined with a nutrition plan, exercise guidance, and close medical supervision. Because these are serious medications, patients are seen by a medical practitioner at least every four to five weeks to monitor progress, check for side effects, and adjust treatment.

We treat people who are healthy and overweight as well as people with significant medical problems. There are no contracts. If you come for a consultation and decide not to enroll, you pay nothing.

Which medications does BeLite prescribe?

Depending on your medical history and goals, your practitioner may recommend:

• Zepbound (tirzepatide)
• Wegovy (semaglutide)
• Phentermine
• Oral GLP-1 medications: Foundayo (orforglipron) and the Wegovy pill

Selected medications can be dispensed at our on-site pharmacy, so some patients, if they choose to, can leave their appointment with their prescriptions in hand. See the full list on our medications page.

Also available at BeLite

Alongside weight management, BeLite offers Xeomin — an FDA-approved botulinum toxin type A injection that smooths frown lines, forehead lines and crow's feet. It is the same class of treatment as Botox, with comparable effectiveness and duration; BeLite chose Xeomin because its formulation contains only the active molecule, without the accessory proteins that may contribute to resistance over years of use. Treatments are given by a certified physician assistant or board-certified nurse practitioner. Results appear over three to seven days and last three to four months, with no downtime, and the consultation is free.

Xeomin at BeLite · Why we chose Xeomin over Botox

Who provides the care?

Appointments are with Board Certified Advanced Practice Nurse Practitioners who specialize in weight loss medications, under the supervision of our Medical Director, Richard Rothman, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Rothman is a Board Certified Psychiatrist with a doctorate in pharmacology and extensive publications on the pharmacotherapy of obesity. Meet our medical providers.

Are appointments in person or virtual?

Your first visit is in person at our Fairfax office. We believe in-person care produces better results, and it is how we start every patient. Virtual follow-up visits may be offered to stable patients when approved by our Medical Director. Read why we favor in-person care.

What do patients say?

“I love having the monthly check-ins, the convenience of the on-site pharmacy, and the friendly staff.”

— Michelle, BeLite patient

Read more testimonials or view before-and-after photos.

Eating, Walking and Training in Great Falls

Two parts of the program happen between appointments: how you eat day to day, and how you move. Great Falls is the least commercial community we serve — a village centre, a handful of restaurants and almost no fitness industry — and the list below reflects that honestly rather than padding it out. What Great Falls does have, in more abundance than anywhere else on these pages, is somewhere to walk. We have no affiliation with any of them.

Places to walk

Great Falls has the best walking of any community we serve and the most ways to get it wrong, so this section is longer than usual. The Potomac gorge is on your doorstep, and the single most important distinction here is between the walks and the hikes. At Great Falls Park the overlooks, the canal towpath and the old carriage road are flat, surfaced and genuinely easy. The River Trail is not: the National Park Service rates it moderate to hard, says rock scrambling is required, and notes cliffs of twenty-five to seventy-five feet with footing that turns treacherous when wet. The Difficult Run trail inside the park has a washed-out section less than six inches wide above a steep drop. Those are real hikes and this page is not sending you on them.

On money: Great Falls Park charges $20 per vehicle, good for seven consecutive days, and it is cashless — cards only. If you expect to go more than once or twice a year, ask at the entrance about the annual Great Falls and C&O pass, or an interagency pass; there are discounted senior and free disability versions that are easy to miss. Riverbend, Colvin Run Mill and Nike Park are all free. So if the fee is what has stopped you walking, the answer is that three of the four below cost nothing.

• Colvin Run Mill Historic Site, 10017 Colvin Run Rd, Great Falls, VA 22066 — listed first on purpose, because it is the one to start with: short, flat, shaded, wooded grounds around a restored grist mill, with a large picnic area, plenty of free parking and no gorge anywhere near it. Nothing here will catch you out. Very dog friendly. Note the hours carefully: the Thursday-to-Sunday, 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM times shown online are the mill and general store building. The county states the grounds are open daily, dawn to dusk, and the grounds are the part you want. Restrooms are not documented anywhere; ring 703-759-2771 if that decides your visit.
• Great Falls Park, 9200 Old Dominion Dr, McLean, VA 22102 — the entrance is off Old Dominion Drive in Great Falls; the postal address says McLean, which is the National Park Service’s and not a mistake. For an easy visit, park at the Visitor Center and walk to Overlooks 2 and 3 — level ground, wooden ramps with handrails, benches, and the falls themselves a few minutes from the car. Overlook 1 has rocks, roots and steps with no ramp, so skip it. For distance without difficulty, the Patowmack Canal Trail runs a mile and a quarter of wide gravel and is passable with a wheelchair as far as the Guard Gate, and the Old Carriage Road is wide and largely free of roots. Open from 7:00 AM until half an hour after sunset. Eight accessible spaces at the Visitor Center lot and five at the Lower lot; the Upper lot has none and no level path out of it. From late spring to early autumn the lots fill early, especially at weekends.
• Riverbend Park, 8700 Potomac Hills St, Great Falls, VA 22066 — the quieter, free alternative two miles upriver, and the local secret when Great Falls Park is heaving. Wide paths along the Potomac that walkers rate highly, a visitor centre selling water and snacks, a water station with a dog bowl, and proper restrooms. The river trail runs down to Great Falls in about forty-five minutes at a steady pace and is flat most of the way, getting rockier near the Aqueduct Dam — so walk out as far as suits you and turn round. Two things: the county closes entry when the car park fills, typically between 9:30 AM and 4:30 PM at weekends and on holidays, so go early or midweek; and the hours shown online appear to be the visitor centre’s rather than the grounds’ — 703-759-9018 will confirm.
• Nike Park, 1111 Utterback Store Rd, Great Falls, VA 22066 — the everyday option on the western side of Great Falls: playing fields, a short trail, flat ground and a great deal of parking, with a Cold War radar dome still standing beside one of the diamonds. It is not scenic and we are not pretending otherwise, but it is five minutes from home and free. Two honest drawbacks: the only facilities are portable toilets in the car park, and regulars call it the buggiest field in the area — take repellent in summer. Little shade.

Eating out without starting over

Your plan is built around normal food in smaller quantities, not special meals. Great Falls has roughly ten restaurants in total, so this is a short list by necessity rather than by selection — but the three below happen to cover the three things that work: grilled fish, charcoal kebabs, and somewhere to get a proper breakfast or lunch that is not a pastry.

• Our Mom Eugenia, 1025 Seneca Rd, Suite H, Great Falls, VA 22066 — Greek, and the best-regarded restaurant in Great Falls by a wide margin. For our purposes it is almost ideal: whole grilled branzino, grilled octopus, grilled scallops, mussels and a half chicken, with beetroot salad, gigantes and other vegetable dishes to put beside them. Grilled fish and a salad is a complete meal that needs no editing. The fried zucchini fritters are the thing to walk past. Open from 11:00 AM Thursday to Sunday, and evenings only, from 4:00 PM, Monday to Wednesday.
• Village Grill, 9899 Georgetown Pike (VA-193), Great Falls, VA 22066 — the village’s long-standing Persian and Mediterranean kitchen, right in the centre, halal, and the most useful everyday option here. Charcoal chicken and lamb kebabs, and — the part that matters — a kabob platter that comes with salad, plus Shirazi salad, tabouli, dolma and kashk-e bademjan to order instead of the rice. One reviewer notes it is wheelchair-friendly with parking directly outside, which is not true of everywhere in the village. Open 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM, closed Sunday. Two notes: the room gets warm near the open kitchen, and it has no website of its own, so ring 703-757-0002.
• Toastique, 9891 Georgetown Pike, Great Falls, VA 22066 — a daytime place, open 7:00 AM to 5:00 PM and from 8:00 AM on Sunday, doing gourmet toasts, smoothie and açaí bowls and cold-pressed juices. The smoked salmon toast and the avocado smash are what people order, and the portions are inherently controlled, which is half the problem solved. It opened in early 2026 so there is less to go on than with the other two, but what there is is consistent. It is not cheap.

Three, and that is close to everything Great Falls has that fits. If you want a wider choice on a given evening, the honest answer is that most of Great Falls drives to McLean or Reston for it — and the ordering principle travels with you: something grilled, roasted or broth-based, the vegetable side instead of the rice or chips, and the dressing on the side.

Gyms and studios

Strength training protects muscle while you lose weight, which is why we raise it with every patient. And here we have to be straight with you: there is no conventional gym in Great Falls. No health club, no weights floor, no twenty-four-hour facility, nothing with a treadmill and a monthly fee in the neighbourhood of forty dollars. What Great Falls has is two excellent, expensive, instructor-led Pilates studios. If you want a gym in the ordinary sense, you will be driving to Reston or McLean for it, and it is better to hear that here than to go looking.

The good news is that reformer Pilates is one of the better ways back into resistance work when impact is the problem, and both studios below are used to beginners and to people managing injuries. Expect roughly $45 to $50 for a group class and considerably more one to one.

• Great Falls Pilates, 10135 Colvin Run Rd, Suite 100, Great Falls, VA 22066 — classical Pilates on full equipment in small classes, and the most directly relevant provision in Great Falls for the people we treat. Three things stand out: a Senior Reformer and Tower class; a programme called Spine & Joint Care for low-impact work where there is a clinical reason for it; and Resilient Bones, modified movement for low bone density, taught by a BoneFit-certified instructor. Their own line is that whether you are new to Pilates or returning to movement they will meet you where you are, and a client who says plainly that she has always hated exercise credits the studio with resolving chronic lower back pain. Open mornings to mid-afternoon on weekdays and mornings at weekends. The same suite also houses Great Falls Movement Center, under the same owner, which adds one-to-one training, physical therapy, massage, a sauna and InBody body-composition scans — that last one being the measurement that actually tracks what we are trying to change. Appointment only, weekdays 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM. 703-480-0281.
• RTR Pilates, 9849 Georgetown Pike (VA-193), Great Falls, VA 22066 — group reformer classes in the village centre, graded by level, and the studio is explicit that every new client starts in a Level 1 class with no prior experience assumed; arrive early and they will walk you round the machine first. The reviews are unusually good on exactly the points that matter — patient instruction, close attention to form, and one client who regained movement in a long-standing frozen shoulder after about a dozen classes. Another says her first class was challenging without being beyond her. The widest hours of anything in Great Falls: 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM on weekdays and open both weekend days. Two practical requirements: grip socks are compulsory and sold there from about $20, and there is a minimum height of 4′11″ to use the reformers. 703-940-0660.

Listings and links verified October 2026. Hours and offerings change; please confirm with the business before you go.

We also serve patients in McLean, Reston and Herndon. See those pages for directions and hours.

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