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For many, we exercise to get stronger and fitter but for women, it is to get thinner. It’s everywhere, they’re nagging ads to join the gym, or buy a product that promises to make us look like a model or just the promise to loose weight if we will do this or that. It’s hard to find a weight loss product that shows a woman who is like us, but instead they always show a [too] skinny girl in the ads and on TV. Even the fitness magazines show a skinny girl and promise you can look just like her or you can get a “flat tummy fast”. No matter where you look, the message is about making [women] weigh less, not about health or enjoyment.
The “get thin” tack hasn’t even worked on the 80% of the UK women who are not doing enough exercise to maintain their health, according to Sue Tibballs from campaign group the Women’s Sport and Fitness Foundation. “It feels like all the negative energy we put into trying to control our bodies with diets, corsetry and surgery is driven by not liking ourselves – we are really undoing ourselves at the moment by battling our bodies.”
Women feel that exercise is a chore that has to be done, while your typical man enjoys the exercise. One poster wrote: “There is an indescribable feeling of power – like a secret I have with myself – knowing that under my clothes there is a strong body, one that can jump, punch, kick, lift, climb, swim, and run really fast.”
Tibballs went on to say, “We ran a project called Sweat in the City with 2,000 women aged 15 to 24. They all joined to lose weight, but as they progressed, the desire to lose weight became far less important, even though they didn’t lose significant amounts. They felt better and the size they were became less important.”
Many people struggle with weight loss as well as the countless people who have weight related medical problems. Weight loss drugs can assist you in meeting your goal for weight loss.
These weight loss drugs will not take the place of good eating habits and the need to exercise and be active. For many who want to loose weight, the weight loss drugs sound like a dream, but remember they are not for everyone who is overweight.
Are weight loss drugs right for you? They are not intended for people who are trying to loose weight for cosmetic reason, but rather those who are losing weight for their health. The prescription for weight-loss drugs are given to people who have been unable to loose with diet and exercise and as well as for those who have medical problems due to their being overweight.
Your doctor may consider weight-loss drugs for you if you have no contraindications and:
Your body mass index (BMI) is greater than 30
Your BMI is greater than 27 and you have a serious medical problem related to obesity, such as diabetes or high blood pressure
In order to get these prescriptions, your doctor needs your health history as well as all prescriptions that you currently take to avoid any potential interactions with the medication.
Weight loss medication can produce an average weight loss of 5 to 10 percent of your total body weight within a year. Not medication along can give you these results, but when coupled with a low calorie diet and regular exercise your results will be better. This percentage of weight loss does not seem like much, but even 5 to 10 percent will improve your health by: Decreasing blood pressure, Decreasing lipid levels,
Decreasing blood glucose levels, Increasing insulin sensitivity.
It is important that these medications are not right for everyone and most people will some or all of the weight you have lost once you stop taking the medication.
Most of these prescriptions are approved by the FDA to be taken for only 12 weeks. Xenical has, however, been approved for long term use. Orlistat, which is also available in a reduced strength without a presciption, blocks the absorption and digestion of fat in your stomach and intestines.
Many of these medications have side affects. Some of the side affects are: Diethylpropion- Increased blood pressure and heart rate, insomnia, dizziness, Phentermine- Increased blood pressure and heart rate, insomnia, dizziness, Orlistat- Intestinal cramps, gas, oily spotting
Source: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, 2010
There has been a lot of concern for some of these medications. For example, Meridia, which was approved in 1997, was taken off the market in 2010 due to studies showing it increases your risk of heart problems and stroke.
You and your doctor need to weigh the long term risks and potential benefits before you decide if a weight loss drug is right for you. Remember also, all health insurance plans do not cover these medications. Some may be very expensive to take.
Weight loss drugs can be an asset to reaching your weight loss goals. Make sure that you implement or continue on an exercise routine as well as the necessary diet for the lifestyle change that you are looking for or needing. Keeping off the pounds you’ve lost, however, is an ongoing concern. And many people, despite their efforts, still regain the weight.
New research has shown that by imagining yourself eating certain foods may help you eat less. This challenges the idea that thinking of a food make you want it more and will make you eat more of it once you get it.
It was found that people who repeatedly imagined eating a certain food, subsequently ate less of it than they would have otherwise.
According to the results, “trying to suppress one’s thoughts of desired foods in order to curb cravings for those foods is a fundamentally flawed strategy,” says Carey Morewedge, PhD, of Carnegie Mellon and author of the study.
“We think these findings will help develop future interventions to reduce cravings for things such as unhealthy food, drugs, and cigarettes; and hope they will help us learn how to help people make healthier food choices,” Morewedge says in a news release.
One of the experiments had a group that imagined putting money into a laundry machine and imagining that they got M&Ms and were eating them one at a time. This made them eat less.
In each of the cases where volunteers repetitively imagined eating the food, a gradual reduction in the motivation to obtain the food and a decrease in the consumtion of that food were noted.
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