Nutrition and weight management are essential to your success
The most common ways to manage excess weight are dieting, physical exercise and/or weight loss drugs.
A nutritious diet and regular exercise should be an essential part of any healthy way of life, whether you opt for weight loss surgery or not. Besides reducing your risk of all the aforementioned conditions, physical activity provides plenty of mental benefits, including elevated mood and less depression.
A well-balanced diet with lean proteins and lots of fruit and vegetables increases energy levels, helps prevent brain disorders like Alzheimer’s disease, and improves heart, bone and teeth health.
Overweight and obesity, as well as their related noncommunicable diseases, are largely preventable. Supportive environments and communities are fundamental in shaping people’s choices, making the healthier choice of foods and regular physical activity the easiest choice (accessible, available and affordable), and therefore preventing obesity.
At the individual level, individuals should:
Also, think about what you drink—choose nonalcoholic, low/no-calorie options such as water, skim milk, iced tea as a substitute for regular, sweetened beverages.
Individual responsibility can only have its full effect where people have access to a healthy lifestyle. Therefore, at the societal level it is important to:
The food industry can play a significant role in promoting healthy diets by:
Also the standard lifestyle changes-based treatment is flawed by high failure and/or relapse rates due to poor compliance at all ages. The unavailability of other ancillary pathomechanism-driven effective treatment strategies or better-tolerated treatments remains one of the main problems.
It is of great importance to understand that weight management and life style changes are essential before and following any bariatric surgery. Life long weight management is the key to your success and prevents weight gain.