Weight Loss: Behavioral Strategies for Success

 What do we know from science, is best but also what do we know from a personal experience might work best for us. I am trying to help people look at what kind of knowledge will help guide our decisions but also what kind of wellness decisions will work for us. Today, we're both gonna talk about what we see is behavioral strategies which can be successful for people and then at the end we'll be answering some of the questions that might come in your mind while reading.

 Sometimes, when we're thinking about recommendations what should I do to lose weight, what should I do to maintain weight. Part of the answer is gonna be how much weight is a person thinking about losing or how much weight have you lost in the past so just kind of a general guideline maybe, I'm someone who's 10 pounds overweight well maybe if I'm 10 pounds overweight maybe just making a decision to eat a little bit healthier in the evening maybe that's gonna guide me in contrast maybe I'm someone who's a hundred pounds overweight and I have a lot of health problems and I'm really gonna need a team of experts behind me to help me guide for success so what I put up with a lot of times when you're reading materials about weight management at awesome talks about body mass index body mass index is just the measure of our height and our weight and what's nice about it is it's gender-neutral doesn't matter male or female and it's just a number in general. If your body mass index is less than 25, you're probably in a healthy way. If you're between 25 and 30 that might be some evidence that you're becoming overweight.

Once you reach a body mass index of 30, that's probably where weight is beginning to have some health problems. If your body mass index is in the 40s or 50s that's where we see people having type 2 diabetes. Obstructive sleep apnea, so part of just right from the beginning is thinking about what is my weight and how much weight am I thinking I need to lose to get health benefits and quality of life benefits.  most people just try one approach or the other and when you look at success it's people that combine physical activity and nutritional changes and that's what we're gonna encourage too.

When you think about a weight loss program, most people think about a nutrition plan or a physical activity program we want you to think about both and we also want you to involve your health care team there's a lot of us know that my weight impacts my health but we don't want to think about how my health can impact my weight loss program. We'd recommend that you set realistic goals most of the people I'd say we both work with. It's not that people aren't trying. Sometimes, people are trying too much and then don't succeed. You should use positive thinking and have confidence a lot of people forget to have a motivation plan. Let's say, I'm really motivated today but a couple of weeks from now, I get busier at work or someone in my family has some health problems so it's difficult to stay motivated over time so we want to talk to you about a motivation plan and then we all make mistakes so we want to have plans for recovering from. Always make your timetables and keep a record of the activity done all the day. Whatever you eat, should be already in your to-do list. Similarly, your workout must also be planned beforehand.