What is Weight Management Success?

[BrightAngel]

I think that some of you might be very interested in hearing
this Professional lecture given at a recent Medical Conference:
The 5A's of Obesity Management,
which ties in to support the concepts of NoS.

http://www.diethobby.com/blog.php?ax=v&nid=903

[harpista]

I think that some of you might be very interested in hearing
this Professional lecture given at a recent Medical Conference:
The 5A's of Obesity Management,
which ties in to support the concepts of NoS.

http://www.diethobby.com/blog.php?ax=v&nid=903

I haven't been by here in forever and a day, but belatedly, I was VERY interested in hearing this lecture and listened to the whole thing (although I actually stumbled on it while looking at your Diethobby site).

Depressing, but then, I guess I might already have been there; I've thought not gaining was a laudable thing for years now.

[oolala53]

I was interested in the fact relatively early on was that he said that doctors are unlikely to even talk to a patient about obesity to 3 our of 4 people who are obviously heavy.

It almost seems like a lose-lose situation. On the other forum I write on, I have heard tons of complaints about their doctor either bringing up their weight or not bringing up their weight.

One of my doctors told me I had to lose weight in order to improve a problem I had. I didn't believe him and I was right. I've lost ten pounds more than he suggested, but it hasn't changed the problem.

I do like the idea he says about treatment's first goal is to stop weight gain, not begin weight loss. That is basically what I started with. Weight loss has happened as I surrendered to my reduced tolerance for overeating, but I thought at each stage that this might be it. And I did see that someone else may decide that she was not willing to eat less. I have a suspicion that I will actually lose more because I still don't exercise consistently, but intend to, just as I always believed that at some point, I was going to reduce my eating, and yet didn't for years. I don't think it will take as long... because I don't think I have 40 more years!

I LOVE that he says he looks for markers of better health, not weight loss, as a measure of successful obesity management. And that he says best weight is the most realistic weight a person can maintain with a livable lifestyle. The second one is something Reinhard has recommended from the beginning.

I think a lot more people would be helped by thinking they were successful before they are thin. I see too much fretting over not having achieved a certain weight when the person has actually made very good changes to her habits for long periods of time. I think if they realize that they enjoy their new life, they might actually be able to keep making small changes that reduce their weight as a side effect.