WEIGHT MANAGEMENT

Weight management includes different methods and Techniques that continue to a person’s ability to maintain their weight. Moreover, weight management is a meaningful way to track weight to identify their ideal body weight.

For weight management, we can use some strategies like:-

1- Diet therapy

2- Physical activity

3- Stress management

4- Weight loss surgery

• Diet therapy- For weight management, we can use a moderate or low amount of calories, Moderate protein, vitamins, and a high fiber diet. Fluid intake plays a very important role in weight management. We can add several types of fluids like juices, smoothies, soups, coconut water, fresh lime juice, etc. For a normal adult, It takes about 3 to 4 liter of water per day.

• Physical activities- Physical activity plays a major role in weight management programs. Most obese patients can lead a sedentary lifestyle. And their physical activities are very less or sometimes they don’t follow or continue this pattern regularly. Exercise is extremely beneficial in weight management because it will increase basal metabolic rate, reduce fat deposits and also help to increase the fluid intake of individuals. The government also encourages physical activity programs. They design pedestrian paths in school, college, and park as well to make the population more active and it will also help them to prevent obesity, cardiac disease, and pulmonary diseases as well. For a Normal person, 40 to 45 minutes of physical activity is enough for a day it may include cycling, swimming, gymming yoga, or stretch exercises.

• Stress management:- Stress management plays a very important role in weight management. The level of the stress hormone cortisol is rise during tension and because of this, it can turn overeating into a habit. So instead of healthy food, we are more like to have unhealthy food products like cookies, fried food, sugary products, etc. That’s why they also called it ‘comfort food’. Sweeteners and fried food are real culprits because everyone loves to have easy-to-make food.

So basically more stress= more cortisol= high appetite for unhealthy food= more weight gain

To maintain your stress level you should try a brisk walk, meditation, breathing exercises, or yoga as well.

• Weight loss surgery:- As we all know bariatric surgery is a surgical intervention to treat obesity. Bariatric surgery is advised for those patients whose BMI is greater than 40. Bariatric surgery is designed to alter or interrupt the digestion process so that calories and nutrition of food are not absorbed properly. And it will decrease their risk of obesity and disorders.

After any of these weight management strategies or programs, it is very important for patients to maintain their weight. For this, they have to consider some important points like:

1- After three or six months of the weight management process strategies patient put efforts to maintain their weight loss which will continue to require otherwise they regain their weight unless they followed an indefinitely diet or unhealthy lifestyle.

2- Maintaining an active lifestyle will help offset some of these metabolic changes.

3- Drink an adequate amount of water per day to keep yourself hydrated.

So basically weight management is a process in which individuals can maintain their ideal body weight by using some plans or strategies and living a healthy lifestyle.