How to Correctly Overcome Obesity?

Many obese people are frustrated when they try to lose their bodyweight. It can be said that almost all people suffering obesity know how to lose their weight by dieting and exercising, but only a few succeed. They are also offered various diet programs and lifestyles by various providers of a popular weight loss program, but mostly there is no significant result or the result is only temporary. After completing the program, they usually regain their weight. There are also people who experience the yo-yo effect, they drastically lose their weight and then regain it back just as fast.

According to Mayo Clinic, among those taking a widely followed weight loss program, 95% of the participants succeed the diet, but they will regain weight after 5 years. So, what to do then? First, check if you are really obese. If so, arrange a safe and healthy weight loss program. Therefore, it is necessary to change the lifestyle, eating habit, and exercise pattern. It is necessary to stay motivated to lose weight. Lose your weight gradually, and change the eating habit and exercise pattern. Long-term changes will bring you success.

If the lifestyle change fails, doctors will give you drugs and, if needed, a surgery. Having medication to lose weight is useless without lifestyle changes, because once the medication stops you will regain your weight. Some drugs may even give you negative side effects. As a research stated, a good diet along with regular exercises and consuming drugs will give you a real and long-term weight loss.

There are indeed many popular diet pills, but it will be better if you consult your doctor first before actually consuming them. Basically, diet pills reduce your calorie intake, which you can actually do yourself by changing your lifestyle (balancing your diet and exercises).

Surgery is another option to overcome obesity. It changes patients' digestion system permanently (Kompas, 22 August 2016). However, surgery is not the proper quick fix for obese people to go back in shape. The surgery is meant to shorten the intestine and constrict the stomach so the calories absorbed from food can be reduced. After the surgery, the patients must change their lifestyle and consult their nutritionist and plastic surgeon to eliminate problems of loose skin after losing a lot of fat. Therefore, the bariatric surgery can only be conducted to the morbidly obese people who are at mortality risk. The bariatric surgery can be performed if the body mass index is more than 35 kg/m2 for normal people and more than 30 kg/m2 for the patients with diabetes mellitus.

Whereas liposuction surgery can only help you cosmetically. It will not reduce the risk of diseases caused by obesity complication if your unhealthy lifestyle continues. Proper weight loss will decrease the risk factor of the occurrence of those diseases. For example, losing 5% of your weight, which can be attained easily by changing the lifestyle, will give you 10% of health improvement.