Physician Assisted Weight Loss Advantages
If you simply want to lose a few pounds or are severely overweight and need to lose a lot, you have probably tried many diets. You may have bought diet books or joined an online diet program.
You may have opted for meal replacement therapies as a substitute for food. Whether you have lost weight temporarily and put it back on or have been unable to stick to a plan, you should try out a medical weight loss diet which has a greater degree of success.
Why is losing weight important?
While there is a movement that being fat is not bad and that you should accept yourself as you are and love yourself, the fact is that being overweight is dangerous to health.
Overweight people are more prone to disorders like:
- Diabetes
- Blood pressure
- High cholesterol levels
- Cardiovascular problems
- Some cancers
- Problems during surgery
- Breathlessness
Often, because of the extra weight you carry, you are not as physically active as you would like to be and this can be an aggravating factor in weight gain.
Medical weight loss diet
When you follow a medical weight loss diet, you are assured that it has been developed by a medical professional and keeps the health aspects in mind. It is often easier to follow and not only helps you reduce the weight but also keep it off. You can find out whether the diet is really medically sound or not by reading up on it and see that it does not focus on single foods or a very restricted diet.
If any form of diet sounds too good to be true, it probably is. While you do need to take in fewer calories to reduce weight, all calories are not created equal and you not only need to restrict fat, sugar and refined foods in your diet, but also follow a diet that is mindful of the health aspects and nutritional needs of the body.
A medical weight loss diet should work long term
Any medical weight loss diet should be easy to adapt to your lifestyle and eating patterns, provided these are sound to begin with. Any diet that allows you to just take in some miracle food and not exercise or expend any calories is not a medically sound diet. You need to exercise not only to use up extra calories, but also as a means to physical fitness and keeping activity levels high also boosts the metabolism allowing you to lose weight faster.
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Any diet which eliminates essential food groups just to lose weight is not a sound diet, unless you need to remove that food from your diet for medical reasons, for instance you have lactose intolerance, a gluten allergy or any other medical reason that precludes you from having that food.
A fad diet may help you lose weight fast, but you will put that weight on and more after you go off the diet, if you are not on a maintenance diet. For a diet to work it should emphasize fresh foods, raw vegetables and fruits, white meats, some fish, complex carbohydrates, proteins and other nutrients that are necessary for health.
Refined foods, junk foods and fast and packaged foods should be avoided as far as possible. Ideally nutrients should come from food and not from supplements.
If you want to lose weight and are prepared to put in the effort to do so, you can be successful on a medical weight loss diet.
