WANT TO LOSE WEIGHT?

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Keeping control of your weight is vitally important. More than being able to wear stylish clothing, the future of your heart may depend on your weight. Dieting is an important part of weight management, but it is only one piece of the puzzle. The more you become involved with a total weight management program, the more likely you are for success.

Dieting Alone = FAILURE!
A successful weight loss means obtaining your weight goals, maintaining the loss over a long period of time, and feeling good! So many people have gone on diet programs and lost hundreds of pounds, only to regain the lost weight. Often they may wind up heavier than when they started. This leaves them frustrated and often feeling guilty for being unable to control their appetite.

Worse yet, many dieters feel terrible both during their diets and in the immediate period following. They enjoy the site of the scale going down and the compliments their friends and family give them when they wear stylish clothing. They, therefore, pretend that the lack of energy, lightheadedness, nausea, even muscle cramps that often accompany their weight loss are not really happening. They do not "listen to their bodies," but instead just stare at that lower number on the scale.

This is foolishness! We know that improper dieting can increase the risk for heart attack. Many people have heard this on TV or read it in the newspaper, but ignore the warnings just to fit into a dress for a special occasion. Always respect your body!

Everyday we watch our friends or family attempt one diet after another. They go to diet centers, diet doctors, on strange diets like the cabbage diets, even chocolate-only diets (!) only to find the same pattern repeating itself: Weight loss followed by weight gain. No matter how often this "yo-yoing" repeats, and how often failure occurs, the process is still repeated over and over again. With each failure a little bit of one's future health is sacrificed. There must be a better way!

Weight Management
There are five parts to a proper weight management program. Each is important, and if you lack in any area you are likely to fail to maintain your weight loss. Weight management is complicated but can be amazingly successful as each part of the program is additive. The parts are:

1. Daily Blood Movement and Light-Weight Lifting
2. Diet Daily Blood Movement
3. Love and Support
4. Spirituality
5. Medications (sometimes)

Daily Blood Movement and Light Weight-Lifting
Daily blood movement means a continuous activity done for 30 minutes daily. It may include a heavy-duty workout at a health club, or 30 minutes of continuous planting of flowers in the garden. It may mean walking the dog each night, walking on the treadmill at any speed you wish, or just taking a nice stroll after dinner. Walks may even be divided into 15 or ten minute segments as long as they add to 30 minutes. As long as the heart pumps your "A-OK." If you have any intention of being successful at weight management, make sure you satisfy this requirement!

Light weight lifting is absolutely essential. Using soup cans as small dumbells is cheap and effective (see "Soup Can Weightlifting).

Diet
Specific foods and diet ideas will be discussed at visits. One thing that will not be mentioned are calories. If you plan to sit around counting calories, or even weighing and measuring foods down to the last ounce, you've come to the wrong place. Best be off to the diet center for another failed attempt at weight loss.

Quality not quantity is the key to understanding a good diet. If you have met the "Daily blood movement" requirement the best diet is a 40/30/30 diet. We will review this together. Please beware of very high protein diets. They are quite effective in lowering your weight but the loss is not easy to maintain. Worse yet, heart rhythm disturbances have been reported with these diets. Remember, your diet is only one part of a successful weight management program.

Love and Support
Let's face it, it's not easy to loose weight and keep it off. You need much love and support from friends and family. More importantly, you need to love yourself. You should be proud of what you are accomplishing. Enjoy the process and feel good about yourself. A high level of self-esteem is vital.

Visualization is an important tool. We encourage you to imagine the look you want to have. See yourself as a thinner person, and it is more likely you will meet your goal. Don't be embarrassed, it really works!

Stress can destroy any successful weight loss. It would seem next to impossible for anyone to maintain a weight loss during high stress conditions. we'll try to help you with stress management, as best we can. Truly, only love, support, and faith, can conquer the high levels of stress we live with everyday.

Spirituality
I deeply believe in faith and prayer. A good spiritual life is an essential part of any healthy lifestyle. Prayer is just as important as diet, and is a vital part of any weight management program.

Inner peace will help you maintain that weight loss. Consider making peace with those who have angered you. Forgiveness is more than just divine, it is helpful in succeeding with weight management. Visualize yourself as a both a slimmer person and a better person. It will happen and you will be happier, healthier, and slender.

Medications
The medications we use are powerful and effective. Their effectiveness has been proven and their side effects are well known. If taken exactly as prescribed you should notice a ease in controlling your appetite, and a drop in your weight.

You may have seen on TV some of the side effect problems these medications have caused. These episodes can nearly all be traced to poor follow of the patient by the prescribing physician. Often the patient on visits to the office or diet center rarely sees the doctor's face. That's an invitation to a disaster.

Our program requires those on medication to have checkups every few weeks.. Baseline EKG, blood pressure, and blood tests are taken on the initial visit, and comparisons are made along the way. The patient is an important, active participant, and is expected to report any undue side effects immediately. See roz2000.com for some ideas.

Conclusion
The true success rate of weight loss centers, from Weight Watchers to Jenny Craig, even hospital based programs, is less than 1%. That means that for every 125 people who enter these programs only one will loose weight and keep that loss for a year or more. What a dismal, embarrassing record. Still billions of dollars are spent every year on the slim chance that "I might be that one." The one thing I guarantee you will loose weight is your wallet. Are you ready to try something different?