Losing weight is never an easy task. It's a goal that can only be achieved with proper diet planning and exercise. Not many people have the discipline and the patience to undergo a diet program. What worsens their condition is that they have easy access to types of food that do nothing but add on unwanted fat into their bodies. Having a sedentary lifestyle is not going to help as well. Having a clear understanding of how your body works and how you deal with food cravings will help you be in the right condition to lose weight.
Unfortunately, there are some people who have deeper problems that can largely contribute to weight gain. There is not easy way to weight loss. People who are struggling with their weight problems have probably tried all the diet plans and consumed quite a number of diet pills, only to gain much more weight. There are cases in which people have gained tremendous amount of weight that they can no longer do simple activities like tie their shoelaces. When people reach 300 pounds or so, there should already be an intervention by family or friends.
Weight loss programs and diet pills may not be sufficient for people who have reached or surpassed a certain weight. Those who have gotten so fat are not only suffering from physical pains, they also have to contend with the emotional burden. More often than not, society does not look kindly to people who are considered strange. Even if they don't pose any danger to society, they are still considered different or deviants. The bigger problem is that the presence of so much fat in the body can be life threatening.
Obesity has many effects that are known to be detrimental to health. Diabetes, heart diseases, and cancer are just some of the health effects of extreme obesity. People who face such threats are given the option to undergo bariatric surgery. What it does is to reduce the size of the stomach so that it can only take in so much amount of food. This is an operation that will only be recommended if there is a life threatening effect caused by obesity. It is a drastic form of weight loss that is reserved for serious cases. Those who undergo this kind of procedure are guaranteed substantial weight loss. However, the procedure carry with it some risks and side effects.
After a procedure, the patient will continue to lose weight as long as he or she follows a strict diet plan. Maintaining the weight is an even more difficult undertaking; but it can be done with proper guidance of a doctor or a health professional. Going through such a risky procedure should be reason enough to maintain the ideal weight. It takes discipline and determination to maintain the ideal weight after a surgery. Losing all that much weight can improve the patient's overall health because the risks of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer are reduced.
This radical weight loss procedure is not for everyone. It carries a lot of risks, but if it succeeds, it can be a life-changing event.
If you have weight loss surgery, are you guaranteed to lose your weight and keep it off? Are you assured of never gaining weight again? Weight loss surgery is not a cure for weight and food issues. The surgery does not do all of the work. It allows you to replace heavy habits with healthy habits to lose weight and maintain weight loss. Weight loss surgery is a tool. You can regain weight. Surgery is a tool we choose to use. If you want to lose, choose to use your surgery.
If you have regained weight post-operatively, medical conditions and anatomic surgery issues need to be discussed with your physician and required blood tests. Regular follow-ups throughout a post-operative patient's life are important. By regular physical exams, follow-ups, and blood tests potential problems can be detected early and treated.
When health and medical issues have been eliminated as a cause for weight regain, the next step is to focus on the behavioral changes required for long-term weight loss success. Problems with a surgical procedure are usually not the cause for weight regain. Common factors in regaining weight are that we return to old habits that made us heavy and candidates for weight loss surgery.
If you've regained weight, it is common to feel as though we have failed. After all, we've failed to lose weight and keep it off each time we've tried. So many times during our pre-dieting career, we felt like failures each time the diets did not work long-term. You are not a failure!! It is common for weight regain after weight loss surgery. You are not alone. The great aspect of weight loss surgery is that if you have regained weight, you can lose it. Your tool is with you to help in losing regained weight.
If you are concerned about weight regain or have gained weight that you'd like to lose, here are some suggestions to get back on track and stay on track:
* Check your protein intake each day. Are you eating enough protein? Protein provides satiation and is important for maximizing weight loss. At meals, eat protein first. One suggestion is to eat two bites of dense protein for every one bite of vegetable, fruit or complex carbohydrate serving.
* Are you drinking a minimum of 64 ounces (8 glasses) of water each day? Water is water. You can flavor your water with the powdered flavorings without carbonation. Water is not soda, tea, coffee, or juice. Water is a key component of getting back on track. Many times we interpret thirst as hunger. Make sure you are continually hydrating throughout the day. Sip your water throughout the day to maximize the hydration to your body.
* How is your activity level? Are you exercising regularly? Have you decreased the frequency and/or intensity of your exercise? It is also the small activities. Take the stairs instead of the escalator, select a parking place furthest from the store, take a walk instead of sitting during your work breaks. If you want to lose it, you must move it.
* Grazing is a sure thing in regaining weight from surgery. Grazing is different than snacking. Snacks are planned; grazing is unplanned eating that usually lasts for an extended period of time. Rather than eat regular meals with planned snacks, grazing can creep back in our lives very easily. Grazing often leads to consuming too many calories, which causes weight gain. You can eat around your surgery by grazing. You don't fill your pouch enough to register that you've eaten yet you consume excess calories. Usually grazing is on high carbohydrate, sugary foods.
* Identify and stop emotional eating. Tune into your emotions rather than eat over them. Check in with yourself if you're eating from physical hunger or head hunger. Head hunger feeds emotions and can result in weight gain. Physical hunger feeds your body and results in good levels of energy and health.
If you've regained weight, think back to a time post-operatively when you were successfully losing weight. What were you doing? What habits had you created that led to your success? Have you returned to old habits that made you heavy? To lose weight, go back to the basics of what worked for you. You were successful in losing weight, you can do it again.
The significant weight loss that occurs within the first period of time after surgery is a big motivator. Food urges return and we must learn to cope with food urges and emotions without acting on them by eating. Isn't it more important to feel good about ourselves than make an unhealthy choice and gaining weight?
Weight loss surgery is a wonderful tool to lose weight. Success from our surgery depends on adopting lifelong healthy habits that include changes in our nutrition, exercise, and behavioral health. What you eat and how you eat changes after surgery, but the benefits of weight loss and improved health are yours. Your surgical tool is yours to use; for weight regain you can choose to lose.
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