Whether you chose a medical weight loss clinic in Bangkok or abroad, the procedures are roughly the same. Medical weight loss refers to the active management of diet, fitness and lifestyle behaviours, under the supervision of a trained professional. These programs often include comprehensive diagnostics and metabolic testing to monitor physiological shifts during a course of treatment.
Without doubt, medical weight-loss programs have a much higher success rate than self-managed diet regimes, even though they’re both focused on the same essential goal: improving an individual’s nutritional and exercise habits. The reasons are that a professional clinic can access your metabolism rate, hormonal balance, immune system function, toxic accumulation, gut health, vitamin levels and so forth, and use this vital data to tailor a goals-orientated programme to fit each unique individual. Let’s now look in more detail about how a clinic approaches a medical weight loss case and why you might want to consider undertaking a course of treatment.
Root Cause
One of the first things your physician will look for is the root cause of your excess weight. Obesity, or just a slow metabolism, maybe due to low hormones, biochemical imbalances, anemia, toxic accumulation, food intolerances and/or a combination of these. Once it’s understood why your metabolism is slow, a bespoke plan can be made to correct the cause and put you on a path to sustainable weight loss.
Is Your Metabolism Rate Slow?
Some people are born lucky (especially in the years leading up to their 30s), they can eat whatever they want and never put on a kilo. Then there are the rest of us who must watch everything we eat and always think about portion sizes and whether a certain food is low in bad fats and sugars. Despite all this, we still gain weight. The difference between these two types of people is one thing: metabolism.
Thanks to modern medicine, we can now pinpoint these differences and correct them. A tailored weight loss program that identifies each person’s underlying condition can bring back a body’s natural balance and improve its metabolism rate. This is particularly important for overweight and obese people, two traits common in older people, who’s metabolism often slows down as they age. Correcting the root cause of weight gain with targeted treatments, such as Oxygen Therapy and Intravenous Nutritional Therapy, will help get anyone’s metabolism back in a healthy range and allow them to focus on nutrition and exercise for long-term weight management.
Weight Loss Benefits
Besides living a longer life, the tangible benefits of weight loss are as follows:
- Decreased risk of diabetes
- Lowered blood pressure
- Decreased risk of heart disease
- Improved cholesterol levels
- Decreased risk of certain cancers
- Improved mobility
- Decreased joint pain
- Improved blood sugar levels
- Decreased risk of stroke
- Reduced back pain
- Decreased risk of osteoarthritis
- Improved sleep apnoea
Control Measures
Nutrition
Although it is often the primary thing overlooked by people wanting to lose weight, the essential part of any weight loss program is nutrition management. Managing diet is the key to weight loss, for example, consuming foods that are low in fat, refined grains and sugars, whilst being high in fibre and with lots of good fats. This is the magic formula for staying healthy from the inside out.
Exercise
Flexibility training, cardiovascular conditioning and strength building, in addition to nutritional management, is a critical component of any effective medical weight-loss program, particularly one striving for long-term success. Exercise brings forth a plethora of benefits for the body as it is a catalyst for metabolic change; in this regard, it’s hugely important for losing weight.
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