If your weight oscillates like a yo-yo or you cannot seem to drop pounds when you need to, then it might be time to look for something more professional than the latest fad diet. This is especially true if your weight gain is getting way out of control. Many diets may seem easy for losing the first 10 or even 20 pounds or so. However, once your body has shed excess water weight, it can seem next to impossible to budge your weight lower on the scales. Before your weight starts creating more serious medical problems like achy joints, diabetes or heart disease, you might want to consider the benefits of a medical weight loss program. Here are five reasons this kind of weight loss option could work for you.
Qualified Advice
Medical professionals who work in the field of weight loss typically know what works and what does not work. We can help you cut through the nonsense and help you to find a medical weight loss program that best fits your body type and habits.
Supervision
When you are on a medical weight loss program, you are accountable to the physician or nutritionist who is overseeing your progress. As a result, this individual will chart your progress and provide you with constructive feedback. This is important, especially when you hit rough spots in the program and are not doing the things you should do to continue to lose weight. Our trained professionals will also know how to help you get back on track if you do fall off the wagon.
Meal Planning
A major advantage to a medical weight loss program is that there is expert-level meal planning that helps to produce genuine results. While it is true that you will have to be careful around some foods, expert-designed meal plans help you work around the troublesome food options. They are also able to help you understand when it is okay to indulge in certain foods you like. In addition, these meal plans are properly balanced to optimize nutritional value.
Therapy
While a simple diet may help you to lose a few pounds, this does nothing to help you address underlying causes of obesity like food addictions and harmful behaviors around food. Talking with a professional about food addiction and how you behave around food is often far more important than dieting itself. Sometimes weight comes off easier when you correct undesirable habits and behaviors around food that only serve to perpetuate issues that lead directly to uncontrollable weight gain.
Medical Procedures
Sometimes weight gain gets so out of hand that it becomes relatively impossible for someone to lose weight through diet and therapy alone. In severe situations, more drastic measures need to be taken. A medical weight loss program may need to be coordinated along with the goal of the patient undergoing some kind of medical procedure. In such a case, a doctor will need to be involved in figuring out how to best proceed to ensure that weight loss is timely and sufficient to better guarantee that any necessary medical procedures can safely be performed on the patient.
If you’re struggling to lose weight on your own, consider a customized medical weight loss program with the trusted experts at InVogue Rejuvenation. Contact our office in El Paso to get started!
