HOW TO DEAL WITH WEIGHT ISSUES SUCCESSFULLY
Weight loss programs don't work!
Today's weight management programs don't work over the long haul! Yet there is a $52 billion market that continues to convince overweight people that there is hope if they use the program or product offered by a particular company. This results in yo yo weight changes but but rarely in sustained weight loss. The bottom line is that ultimately most people who who have been on diets or weight loss products feel like a failure, suffer from low self esteem, and often give up in disgust with their weight management efforts. This is a lose-lose situation except, of course, for those people who are prospering from the income generated by their weight management programs and products!
A healthy lifestyle outweighs body size for overall quality of health
There is a new movement in the weight management field that is more accepting of whatever weight a person is, and focuses more on lifestyle measures that reduce inflammation through a healthy diet, improved fitness, better sleep, reduced stress, and less exposure to environmental toxins. This is a win-win approach as research verifies that a healthy lifestyle is more important than what you weigh, and that you can live a long and healthy life even if you are overweight. in fact, being a little overweight is associated with a longer life!
Taking the whole person into consideration when looking a what he or she weighs is of major importance. Quality of life issues that include self esteem and self confidence may be far more important than what a person weighs. In some situations, being overweight confers a longer life!
Being overweight is not just about overeating!
Medical research has shown that our appetite is regulated by a wide range of factors that have been poorly understood and, for the most part, ignored. In this section of DoctorSaputo.com we provide an indepth review of those factors as well as the solutions that should be considered to deal with weight management issues -- either too much or too little.
Calories in and calories out may have a basis in physics, but this is hardly ever the situation for people who are overweight. Factors that determine what you weigh include:
- Diet
- Hormonal factors such as thyroid, adrenal, and ovarian
- The amount and type of exercise you do
- PTSD
- How well you sleep
- Stress
- Exposure to environmental toxins
- Certain medications such as antidepressants, antipsychotics, beta blockers, steroids, anti-seizure medications
- Quitting smoking
One size fits all approaches to sustainable weight loss are silly; we're all different! It is critical to deal with the underlying causes of why we are overweight, and this can be done by taking a complete history that includes the abovementioned factors, assessing our biochemical imbalances through labwork, and considering each person's unique life story.
Our weight is only one single aspect of a healthy lifestyle!
The secret to success in creating wellness is to do what you can that doable and works! Creating a wellness plan that is achievable will inspire further commitment and self confidence that "yes I can!" Today's approach to restoring and maintaining good health are centered on unrealistic goals anchored in what you weigh, and when that fails we tend to give up the whole idea being healthy even if we're overweight.
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Lifestyle is our most powerful medicine; it is safe, effective, affordable, and within our control to use. The work of scientists such as Dean Ornish, MD, and the writings of Bruce Lipton, PhD, have documented that even our genetic code, our DNA, is clearly modifyable through lifestyle practices. Even what we think and believe has a powerful effect on our biochemistry, physiology, and overall health. Pharmacological drugs can be lifesaving, but compared to lifestyle medicine they are usually only minor players.
Both exercise and what and how much you eat are essential in weight loss programs. Yet being thin is insufficient in maintaining good health; exercise is also necessary.
The intensity of exercise is important because it burns calories faster and causes a sustained increased basal metabolic rate for several hours afterwards. That's right, we get to burn calories at a faster rate when we're resting! Interval exercise, which involves doing very strenuous exercise for just a couple of minutes at a time, stimulates the body to condition itself faster and more than just gentle exercise. Until we exercise beyond our conditioning, the mitochondria in our cells burn fat, not carbohydrate. Fat provides much more energy in the form of ATP than any other fuel. It is our primary fuel until we become fatigued, at which time we begin to burn carbohydrate and produce lactic acid. The buildup of lactic acid is what is believed to make us tired. Aging is associated with worsening mitochondrial ability to burn fat and produce energy.
There is a pandemic of obesity and diets will not solve the problem because they are not scientifically sound. Wow! Our cells know what they need in our diet and if they don't get it they send messages to our appetite center saying "eat." However, what we eat is not necessarily what we need; all too often it is fast food that is relatively devoid of the nutrients we need, but full of calories we don't need.
Ellen Cutler, MD, DC, has come up with the novel idea that many of us gain weight because we don't digest our food well.
Toxins are ubiquitous. In a study of 9 people, 167 chemicals were found that caused cancer, were endocrine disruptors, reproductive toxins, neurotoxins, and caused birth defects.
