Weight Management

Weight management:

• Weight management is a long term approach to maintain one’s weight at a healthful level.
• The aim of the weight management is to bring balance between energy expenditure and energy intake.
• Under weight and overweight both leads to high health risks.

Why you need weight management?

• Maintaining healthy weight is a key to maintain fitness and good lifestyle.
• It is a proactive means to prevent serious health problems, including:
  • Diabetes
  • Blood pressure
  • Stroke
  • Heart disease
  • Sleeping disorder
  • Mental stress

Type of weight management:

Dietary regulation:

• This weight management program ensures that you have enough vitamins and minerals are supplied to the body.
• Diet is made such that it meets per day requirement of the nutrition to a body:-
  • Carbohydrates- 100 g
  • Protein - 50- 63 g
  • Dietary fiber - 20-30 g
  • Calories from fat- not more than 30 %

Exercise:

• Doing regular physical exercise increases the number of calories used by the body which in turn makes the body to replace fat with lean muscles.
• Exercise such as swimming, yoga, walking and stretching helps to maintain fitness to your body.

Medical management:

• If your BMI is more than 30 then doctors may prescribe medicines to you.
• Common prescription includes:-
  • Orlistat- works by blocking your body from absorption of one third of the fat that taken
  • Belviq- works by curbing your appetite
  • Contrave- combination of drugs used to treat alcohol and opioid dependence; helps to stop smoking
  • Saxenda- works by make you to feel that your stomach is full
  • Phentermine- works by curbing your appetite
  • Qsymia- works by curbing your appetite

Surgery:

• Most successful method for weight loss.
• Common surgical procedures:-
  • Vertical banded gastroplasty (stomach stapling)- limits the amount of food that your stomach can hold thereby bringing weight loss
  • Gastric bypass- prevents absorption of nutrients from food.

Cold laser treatment:

• Cold laser treatment is a cosmetic procedure that uses laser to remove fats from your body.
• The procedure is painless and takes about 40 min
• The laser is irradiated to the area of waist, hips and thighs for weight loss

SulpSure:

• SulpSure is a non-invasive technique to burn fats in the area such as abdomen and thighs.
• This procedure is just 25 min but destroys 24% of fats.
• The results will be seen as early as 6 weeks.
• Major advantage of this procedure is that the targeted cells re destroyed permanently.