Overweight and Obesity – Treatment Available

Obesity is a medical condition giving people sleepless nights. Good feeding habit can help you get your weight problem solved.

Overweight can be life threatening if measures are not taken timely to bring it to manageable levels. This can be done successfully in various ways which may include setting goals and making lifestyle changes, such as eating fewer calories and being physically active. Other treatment methods available are medicines and weight-loss surgery normally for people who may feel that lifestyle changes aren’t enough.

Overweight and Obesity – Set Realistic Goals

Setting realistic weight-loss goals is an important first step to losing weight. The choice of goals may not be standard with everybody like the one for adult may not be the same with that of the children and so let us segment them in that order of adults and children.

Overweight and Obesity – Goals for Adults

• An adult should try losing between 5 to 10 percent of their current weight over 6 months. This will lower their risk for coronary heart disease (CHD) and other conditions.
• The best way to lose weight is gradual. A weight loss of 1 to 2 pounds a week is practical, safe, and will help you keep off the weight. It will also give you the time to make new, healthy lifestyle changes.
• In the event that you’ve lost say 10 percent of your body weight and have consistently maintain it off for 6 months if after this progress you are still overweight or obese then you may want to consider further weight loss.

Overweight and Obesity – Goals for Children and Teens

• Parent should take the lead role in this and keep monitoring the progress. Therefore if your child is overweight or has high risk of being overweight or obesity, then the goal is to maintain their current weight and to focus on eating healthy and being physically active. To help young ones the whole family should make effort to embrace positive lifestyle changes.
• If your child is overweight or obese and has a health complication related to overweight or obesity, your doctor may refer you to a pediatric obesity treatment center for further examinations and treatment.

Overweight and Obesity – Lifestyle Changes

Lifestyle changes can help you and your family achieves long-term weight-loss success. Example of lifestyle changes include:

• Focusing on balancing energy received in the body (calories from food and drinks) with energy the body gives out (physical activity)
• Following a healthy eating plan
• Learning how to embrace healthy lifestyle habits

Over time, these changes will become a routine in your everyday life which is very good for weight loss.

Overweight and Obesity – Calories

By reducing the rate of calories intake (i.e. energy in) will be very helpful in weight loss. It is important to note that for an adult to lose 1 to 2 pounds a week they should reduce their calories intake by 500-1000 calories a day.

• In general, having 1,000 to 1,200 calories a day will help most women lose weight safely while for men it will be 1200 to 1600 calories a day to be effective in proper weight loss. This calorie range for men is also suitable for women who weigh 165 pounds or more or who exercise routinely.

These calorie levels are a guide and may need to be adjusted. If you eat 1,600 calories a day but don’t lose weight, then you may want to cut back to 1,200 calories. If you’re hungry on either diet, then you may want to add 100 to 200 calories a day.

Low-calorie diets with less than 800 calories a day shouldn’t be used unless your doctor is monitoring your progress. However for overweight children and teens, it’s important to sluggish the rates of weight gain. Nonetheless reduced-calorie diets aren’t advised unless advised by a health care provider.

Overweight and Obesity – Healthy Eating Plan

A healthy eating plan supplies your body with the essential nutrients it needs every day ensuring enough calories for good health, but not so many that may cause weight gain.

A healthy eating plan is low in saturated fat, trans fat, cholesterol, sodium (salt), and added sugar. Following a healthy eating plan will lower your risk for heart disease and other conditions.

Healthy foods include:

• Fat-free and low-fat dairy products, such as low-fat yogurt, cheese, and milk.
• Protein foods like lean meat, fish, and poultry without skin, beans, and peas.
• Whole-grain foods, such as whole-wheat bread, oatmeal, and brown rice. Other grain foods include pasta, cereal, bagels, bread, tortillas, couscous, and crackers.
• Fruits, which can be fresh, canned, frozen, or dried.
• Vegetables, which can be fresh, canned (without salt), frozen, or dried.

Canola and olive oils, soft margarines made from these oils, are heart healthy. However they should be used in smaller units because they’re rich in calories.

You also consider adding unsalted nuts, like walnuts and almonds in your diet provided that you limit the amount you eat (nuts also are high in calories).

Overweight and Obesity – Foods to limit

Foods that are high in saturated and trans fats and cholesterol raises blood cholesterol levels and also may be rich in calories. Fats and cholesterol raise your risk for heart disease, so they should be limited, saturated fat is found mainly in:

• Fatty cuts of meat, such as ground beef, sausage, and processed meats like bologna, hot dogs, and deli meats.
• Poultry meat without the skin
• High-fat dairy products like whole-milk cheeses, whole milk, cream, butter, and ice cream
• Lard, coconut, and palm oils, which are found in many processed foods

Trans fat is found mainly in:

• Foods with partly hydrogenated oils like many hard margarines and shortening
• Baked products and snack foods like crackers, cookies, doughnuts, and breads
• Foods fried in hydrogenated shortening like French fries and chicken

Cholesterol mainly is found in:

• Egg yolks
• Organ meats like the liver
• Whole milk or whole-milk products like butter, cream, and cheese

Avoiding foods and drinks containing added sugars, like high-fructose corn syrup, is very necessary. Added sugars will give you extra calories without nutrients like vitamins and minerals. They (added sugars) are found in many desserts, canned fruit packed in syrup, fruit drinks, and no diet drinks.

Overweight and Obesity – Portion size

A portion is the quantity of food you choose to eat for a meal or snack. It’s different from a serving, which is a measured amount of food and is noted on the Nutrition Facts label on food packages.

Anyone who has eaten out lately is likely to notice how big the portions are. Reducing on the portion size is a good way to eat fewer calories and balance your energy IN.

Finally what you eat and how you eat can be the cause of your weight problem and this could be complicated if you don’t know that the food you eat is really the reasons for your problem and so doctor Akoury who is the founder of AWAREmed Health and Wellness Resource Center is committed to helping people globally in all matters of weight gain and obesity in the most natural way and putting emphasis on Neuroendocrine Restoration (NER) to reinstate normality through realization of the oneness of Spirit, Mind, and Body, Unifying the threesome into ONE.

Overweight and Obesity – Treatment Available