Should You Seek Medical Help to Lose Weight?
Chronic weight gain is a serious health concern. While you may opt for various weight loss treatments and they do give results, but the are not long lasting. The reason is that weight gain is not all about moving less or eating more; its not all about balancing calorie in and out; there are more hidden factors that play the major role in the background – your ‘neurobiology’. The causes of your weight gain is multifactorial; life style and environment is only a little piece, rest its genetics, that determines your unique appetite system which is a balance of your good and bad appetite hormones. This imbalance is caused by factors that can be changed or cannot be modified. At Modest Medix, our Obesity Physicians identify the factor that contributes to weight gain and offer a customized medical help to lose weight.
What are Health Benefits of Weight Loss?
Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight can positively affect your health and quality of life. It not only makes you lighter but rebuild the confidence that you have lost.
Healthy weight loss can benefit you in many ways that includes:
- Improving heart health including your cholesterol, blood pressure
- Improving diabetes that includes stopping of all diabetes
- Reducing chronic pain resulting from excess weight
- Reducing waist circumference
- Improve sleep and snoring
- Improve mood
- Boost energy and sex drive
- Restore self esteem and confidence
- Reduce the risk of pregnancy-related complications
- Regulate periods and increase chance of conception
When Should You Seek Medical Help to Lose Weight?
Obesity is an illness. Self help will give limited results and ultimately weight will be regained.
If you find yourself in the following situations, you should seek medical help to lose weight.
- You continue to gain weight despite doing everything right
- You cannot control on your hunger and feel hungry all the time
- You cannot stop thinking of food and eating soon after your meal
- You are eating at night after a meal.
- You are an emotional eater and cannot control
- You have tried dieting without any results
- You are experiencing chronic pain due to your weight gain
- Your blood tests are abnormal due to your weight gain
- If you have a strong family history of weight gain
Who Should Seek Help?
Health you, Healthy family
Even if you child struggles with weight, don’t wait for their weight to get worse before seeking help.
Act NOW!!!
Medical Help to Lose weight – What Does it Involve?
Just like any chronic health condition after lifestyle and behaviour management, medication has its important role to play for better and sustainable outcome. Similarly, when it comes for medical weight loss solutions after lifestyle management, weight loss medication helps to lose weight quicker, easier and for long term.
Lifestyle treatment includes healthy eating habits, portion control, and developing the right mindset to achieve the best weight. Your personal care educator will provide you with 1 on 1 counseling for your nutrition, develop smart goal of your physical activity and provide you with behaviour therapy that will help you to build restraint and resilience for your weight journey. They will also help identify the challenges and your ‘off track’ reasons. Accordingly, they offer needed medical help to lose weight under MD supervision.
What is Medical Weight Loss Program at Modest Medix?
Modest Medix houses a team of experienced obesity physician’s expert, dietitians, and health educators who are there to accompany you on your weight journey. Your weight loss program is created only for you so that you have a solution for your challenge and utilize your strength.
After your initial assessment with MD that includes detailed medical history including your weight history and review of your blood tests a treatment plan is created only for you. The treatment plan involves:
- Developing a structured meal plan
- Customizing meal plan according to your genetics testing
- Providing educating on nutritional labels and consumption of genetically appropriate foods
- Offering vitamins to avoid nutritional deficiency during weight loss
- Achievable and realistic exercise plan
- Value based behaviour therapy that will help with craving and emotional eating
- Protein replacement shakes (if needed)
- Medications for weight loss (if needed)
- Bi weeklyContinued one-one support
- Group support through peers discussion
- Online educational portal
Studies have shown that if a tailored lifestyle approach is used for weight loss, it yields more success as compared to standard lifestyle approach. Health educators will provide you with the help you need to get on and stay ‘on track’ for sustainable and lifelong results.
Don’t wait for next blood work results to know how bad your sugar and cholesterol is.
Don’t wait for your doctor to tell you to Loss weight to get your blood pressure in control
Take charge of your health now!
Reduce number of medications that you are taking.
Have Modest Medix Medical Team help you to Loss and Maintain Weight for your Health!
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