A Drug Habit Is Not The Answer To Weight Loss
The National Institute of Health has reported that 65% of Americans are overweight or obese….ho hum! What to do? Go on a diet? Well okay, but studies have found that of those people that go on a diet over 90% fail to achieve permanent weight loss. It seems that the nation’s destiny is to look like the inhabitants of the spaceship Axiom in the movie WALL . E!
What’s the answer? People are becoming more and more desperate to try and find a solution to the problem. The answer is proving to be very illusive indeed.
Diets have somehow endorsed people’s consciences. They feel that at least they are doing something even although they know that any success they achieve is going to be short lived. The effect of this ’serial dieting’ is not good. Serial dieting causes depression and physical weakness and should be avoided at all costs.
Drugs, are they the answer? When people get desperate they turn to anything. Doctors have been under increasing pressure to prescribe weight loss drugs to overweight and obese people.
Doctors are usually very careful indeed about what they prescribe to obese people, but they are under increasing pressure because people are either unwilling or not prepared to make the personal commitment that long-term weight loss requires.
Proprietary weight loss drugs fall into the category of diets in their long-term effectiveness. The side effects of weight loss drugs are not pleasant and include headache, back pain, constipation and insomnia, so for those who have to take them, it’s no walk in the park.
It is depressing to see so many diet solutions offering ‘fast weight loss’. The problem with fast weight loss is that it is accompanied not long afterwards by fast weight gain. There will never be any lasting result without commitment to personal change - and this takes real effort.
The only way to achieve real and lasting weight loss is to make a cast iron commitment to personal change. Behavior change is the answer and this only comes through recognizing bad behaviors and learning new habits, slim habits. Permanent weight loss is achievable, all it takes is effort.