The entire world is becoming obese due to increasing problems and depression now a days. Managing your weight is a vital part of your health. Being obese increases your risk for chronic heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure and diabetes. People try to lose weight to fit on society’s parameter. Everyone wants to look perfect with a toned body.
Weight loss is about managing and maintaining a healthy body weight. Weight loss helps in a way by decreasing the chances of disease reoccurrence and increasing recovery rate in patients. It is difficult in people in effort of smoking cessation.
Major reason of Obesity is high calorie intake than the amount of energy utilized daily. Food consumed works as body fuel. But less physical activity does not serve the purpose of fuel. Some factors that can add to weight control issues include:
- Lifestyle behaviors, like eating habits and average physical activity everyday directly impact your weight.
- We eat to express emotions. The emotional side happiness, sadness, depression, anxiety, boredom make us spoil our eating habits.
- Obesity runs in family. If anyone in your family is obese, you might have an increased risk. But in some cases many people with obese family history are not themselves overweight.
- Medical condition or medication can actually disturb your metabolism (ability to burn calories into energy), which can cause obesity. Medicine like steroids can cause weight gain. Medical conditions can include:
- Hypothyroidism
- Depression
- Certain neurological problems
Overweight lead to medical problems in the future. Being overweight is linked to several health problems, including:
- Stroke and other heart diseases
- Hypertension
- Diabetes
- Certain cancers
- Osteoarthritis
- Breathing problem like apnea
A person who is 40% overweight is twice as likely to die earlier than an average-weight person.
People with less than 20% obesity of their healthy weight should seriously focus to losing weight if they have any of the following risk factors:
- Chronic Health conditions like high blood pressure (hypertension), high cholesterol and diabetes are all obesity-associated diseases.
- Having a body shape that’s considered apple or pear-shaped
- A family history of certain chronic diseases
How can I control my weight?
Controlling your weight needs self-control and patience — you need to think in long-term to control your weight and make changes to lifestyle.
Changing your complete lifestyle, nutrition and behavior are the only ways to make long-lasting weight-loss changes. These changes focus on changes to your eating and exercise habits.
A few ways you can change that may help you control your weight include:
- Learning about nutrition.
- Changing your eating habits.
- Increasing your physical activity.
- Changing your mindset about eating.
- Joining a weight loss program.
- Building up immune systems.
- Following any drug therapies prescribed by your doctor.
Increasing exercise. Whether this is a dance or Pilate class or long walks, having fun will help you stay motivated in long run.
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