How to lose weight properly
The main goal of dietary treatment to reduce body fat to a level that improves health or have a lower risk of complications related to overweight.
If there are associated diseases, the diet should consider some functional significance as indicators of blood glucose, plasma lipid levels and blood pressure, and not rely on arbitrary tables of ideal weight, or rate or degree of weight loss.
In all cases you should consider dietary education by dieticians, nutritionists, who will try to establish eating habits and healthy lifestyles in order to maintain long term weight loss.
They are so different factors that trigger and overweight affect the dietary treatment that is essential to make a multidisciplinary approach:
- Medical: identifying the cause of overweight and assess a possible pharmacological or surgical treatment, if applicable
- Dietary: To reduce the calories in the daily diet of a person and change the wrong eating habits through dietary education.
- Psychological: for anxiety and analyze the behavior towards food.
In any case, it has to recommend physical exercise, depending on the individual’s capabilities, to help increase energy expenditure.
The protocol of any intervention, if overweight should establish a working methodology ordered in order to obtain sufficient data from the person, and make treatment appropriate to their clinical and personal situation. The goal is to lose weight and maintain goal, the power to adapt their lifestyle and diet to design alterations or pathologies.
For all this, the most effective treatment is a personalized diet, aided by psychological therapy and behavioral education for promoting dietary eating habits and a healthy lifestyle.