Excess weight can lead to innumerable complications in the body and may have long-term effects on your health. Weight gain could come about due to a variety of factors, including genetics, unhealthy diet, sedentary lifestyle, underlying health issues, or other causes.
When it comes to shedding the extra pounds, it may not be as easy a task as it was to gain the weight. However, plenty of options exist to lose weight effectively by considering the medical route. Read on to find out the best medical weight loss treatments to consider!
What are the best medical treatments for weight loss?
Dietary changes and regular physical activity are the most common ways people adopt to lose excess weight. However, these methods may not show the intended effects on the body in certain situations.
Medical Weight Loss treatments are an effective solution to this dilemma. Here are some of the surgical and non-surgical medical treatments for weight loss.
Medical diet counselling and nutrition plans
Medical diet and nutritional plans take a scientific mode to control the intake of calories without making you feel deprived.
By consuming all the relevant nutrients in the required proportions and cutting down on calories, these diet plans aim to boost the intake of proteins and good fats for weight loss.
Since you need constant motivation and guidance, your doctor will record your progress and make relevant changes whenever needed.
The doctor will also help you understand your nutritional needs, emotional eating and unhealthy dietary habits, and any other hindrance in your weight loss journey.
Under this method, you will get expert guidance on your diet from a medical practitioner, personalised meal plans depending on your goals, and use certain tools and strategies to help you make healthy lifestyle changes through smart choices.
Prescription weight loss medications and supplements
Depending on your health conditions and requirements, your doctor may prescribe weight loss medications and supplements to reduce weight.
This mode is usually preferred by those who have health risks due to excess weight and are not getting any results with exercise and dietary changes.
According to the National Institutes of Health, people should take their medications combined with a low-calorie diet to reduce weight more effectively and healthily.
In one-year research, weight loss medication was shown to, in comparison to those taking a placebo, cause subjects to lose more weight.
Weight-loss drugs employ several mechanisms under medical supervision to lose excess weight from the body. Some medications aid in appetite control or help you feel fuller faster. Some are made to make it more difficult for your body to assimilate fat from the foods you eat.
Bariatric surgery
Bariatric surgery, often known as weight reduction surgery, is removing or altering a portion of the small intestine or stomach to reduce food intake and calorie absorption.
This can assist you in losing weight and lower the chance of developing type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, and other metabolic syndrome symptoms that often accompany obesity.
The two main types of bariatric surgeries are gastric bypass and gastric band or gastric sleeve. Depending on the patient’s specific demands, a doctor may advise surgery for someone with a BMI of 30 or above.
In gastric bypass surgery, the initial portion of the small intestine’s middle region is skipped. Moreover, the procedure also reduces the stomach’s size.
This method is typically more successful than restrictive methods. Nevertheless, as the body can no longer absorb as many nutrients, there is a risk of vitamin and mineral deficiency in the patient.
To reduce the size of the stomach, the surgeon utilizes a gastric sleeve or a gastric band. After the procedure, a person is only allowed to eat around a cup of food at a time. This drastically lowers food intake.
Hormone therapy
Hormonal imbalances may also lead to weight gain as the body slows down the production of essential hormones that maintain the ideal body weight. In your body’s metabolism, hormones also have a significant impact.
It has been demonstrated that decreased hormone levels can also cause the metabolism to slow down, which can make it more difficult to lose weight. Estrogen and testosterone are two hormones that play a significant role in weight management.
Hormone replacement treatment can stop your metabolism from changing as a result of low hormone production. To prevent your body from storing additional pounds, you can burn more calories at rest and when exercising.
Vitamin injections
A more contemporary procedure known as lipotropic injections is gaining popularity for its ability to make patients feel more energized, speed up fat burning and enhance metabolism.
Vitamin B-12 injections or lipotropic injections have been proven to help reduce weight. Lipotropic injections improve your general health as they increase energy and metabolism while also destroying fat and assisting your body in filtering pollutants more swiftly.
Lipotropic injections are made up of a combination of chemicals. Although vitamin B12 serves as the treatment’s basic ingredient, the other components also contain fat-busting and metabolism-boosting amino acids that interact with the body to remove excess fat and toxins that slow your metabolism.
Your ideal weight goals will come to fruition more swiftly with lipotropic injections. However, you must also combine the injection with a balanced diet, regular exercise, and a healthy diet for it to provide you with the ultimate results of weight reduction.
Liposuction
Although its popularity is reducing, liposuction is still an effective method to remove excess fat from the body. It may not be as effective a weight loss method as the others discussed above, but it can help remove fat deposits from various body parts, giving you a more toned shape.
It is a surgical operation that employs a suction method to remove fat from certain body parts, such as the arms, belly, hips, buttocks, thighs, or neck. Moreover, liposuction contours (shapes) these regions.
The fat volume and the area’s appearance influence how much fat is eliminated. As long as your weight doesn’t fluctuate, the subsequent shape modifications are often irreversible.
Takeaway
A successful strategy for healthy weight loss treatment will be developed with you by weight loss specialists depending on your goals. Following a medical evaluation, you will work with a certified dietitian or nutritionist to develop and adhere to an effective eating plan.
Simona LeVey did her degree in psychology at Tel Aviv University. She is interested in mental health, wellness, and lifestyle.
