Weight Loss Overviews

Before starting a diet, we must first ensure that it is necessary and the will to follow is real. It is useless to put on a diet if your motivation is not strong. Talk to your doctor who can best judge of its necessity and you give arguments to build your belief.

10 tips for dieting

- Give yourself reasonable targets to achieve a moderate weight reduction and regular. Avoid overly strict diets, because you do not follow long.
- Do not give up a system under any pretext, because there will be even harder to take.
- Do not follow a diet totally exclude a category of foods, as this could lead to dietary imbalance and vitamin deficiency.
- Avoid snacking between meals. It is often responsible for an inefficient system.
- Avoid too frequent irregularities in the conduct of the regime: if you make less effective it will lose all credibility, and you stop.
- Avoid low-fat dishes, light or diet, because they encourage eating more.
- Learn how to systematically read product labels, it helps to know the composition of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, vitamins and minerals. The overall caloric equivalent is also frequently mentioned.
- Keep a food diary where you write what you eat every day, including your deviations. This book will help you take stock of your diet, to see if you meet the quantities of fat, carbohydrates, proteins, and especially to understand why and how to make differences.
- Even when following a diet, he must keep a varied diet.
- Do not isolate yourself: this is not because you are dieting it must refuse all invitations to dinner. It is sometimes preferable to make a small difference. What counts is the respect of the scheme over the long term.

Medical Treatment and Surgical

Medical treatment is to find and treat any and rare medical causes of obesity, such as a malfunction of the endocrine glands (thyroid, adrenal glands).

Traditional treatments of obesity, now banned, associated with diuretics, amphetamines (diet pills) and thyroid hormones, which are both ineffective and dangerous.

Today, several medicines are available to help fight obesity. A large majority requires a prescription, because their effects on metabolism are not trivial. Some drugs work well on the intestinal enzymes, they inhibit. They reduce 30% of fat absorption from the gastrointestinal tract and is complementary diets. Dietary restriction is necessary, particularly fat, on pain of severe diarrhea.
Other drugs act on the satiety centers of the brain by a mechanism similar to that of amphetamines. Only specialists can prescribe these products.

Surgery is used only in cases of morbid obesity when body mass index (BMI) exceeds 35 or 40, and weight 130 or 150 kg. Bariatric surgery is most commonly performed is to remove part of the stomach, limiting food intake. The results are spectacular in the coming weeks, but this surgery must be accompanied by a strict diet. Psychological support is recommended. Finally in the months following the intervention of small cosmetic surgery may be required to remove folds of skin and abdominal fat deposits disappear easily.

Other interventions include installation of a temporary balloon in the stomach, which by its mere presence, cut hunger and forced to make smaller meals.