Maintaining Weight After A Weight Management Program

Question: Discuss about the Maintaining Weight After A Weight Management Program? Answer: The management of weight is important for each individual, as managing weight helps people to stay healthy and fit. Gaining weight attempts to enhance the risk factors related to our healthy. Therefore, we should maintain our weight. It is more important for people who have already gained weight. Overweight, if not managed in the proper way can lead to obesity, which is one of the leading health issue related to a number of serious health problems including coronary heart disease, diabetes, hypertension, etc. (Abildso et al. 2014). Therefore, we need to make it sure that we should have gone through proper weight management program to reduce weight according to the health needs and to be fit. I have seen people going through mental stigma, for having overweight related issues. In that situation, consulting with a physician about health issues, and they would suggest to go through a weight management program. After the weight management program, the maintenance of weight is crucial, as most of the people tend to gain weight for inadequate lifestyle and behavioral attributes after attending a weight management program (Anderson 2016). In this context, from my viewpoint as a pharmacist, we should be responsible to manage my lifestyle and behavioral attributes to meet my goals related to weight management. I realized that gaining weight after two months of leaving weight management program is common. I realized it when I revealed that, skinny jeans, which fit me beautifully after going through the successful weight management program; it sometimes become uncomfortable (Vargo et al. 2012). Then I realized that it is due to inadequate lifestyle measures after weight management program. I went to an event, and one of my close friends highlighted the point, that he is gaining weight after completing his weight management program (Schroeder 2014). He has not renewed his gym membership, which also made it difficult to manage weight. One of my neighbors also told me that, he is gaining weight while celebrating the successful weight loss in weight management program. In busy schedule, people used to skip meals sometimes and lost commitment towards consumption of healthy and nutritious diet. I felt bad for thinking that, all of their effort in weight management program resulted worthless. In th is context, I realized that they need to be concern about the management of weight by modifying daily habits (Hoerster et al. 2014). I realized that, day-by-day people become impatience and tensed, which also affect their health. However, people become more tensed when I realized that, others taking part in the weight management program were maintaining their weight. Therefore, I need to concentrate on the measures for reducing gaining of weight. So What According to Leigh Smith (2015), weight gain after losing weight has become a common phenomenon in the young generation, as they cannot maintain their adequate healthy diet and lifestyle after going through a weight management program. I have reviewed some related articles and blogs, where I come to know the reasons, how and why people tend to gain weight after losing weight. One of the major reason is people tend of avoiding the scale provided and maintained during the weight management program. Actually, we need to maintain the similar or related diet chart and related lifestyle to maintain the metabolic and other physiological processes in a proper way (Schuler 2016). Another factor I have identified that is, people become tensed enough after going through the weight management program. There is also excitement to look slimmer after going through the weight management program. All of these phenomenon lead to the secretion of cortisol hormone, which is secreted during the pressuriz ed situation and slows down the metabolism process (Pearson and Grace 2012). Therefore, it is revealed that when we become tense foods tend to be stored in the body as fat. Thus, the researcher showed the weight loss program becomes worthless in this context. Sometimes, people tend to reward themselves in a wrong way by celebrating the success of weight management program and consuming sugar-based foods, it leads to gain weight back. We also stop to pay attention toward the dietary habits and do not pay attention in consuming an adequate amount of protein and other essential nutrients (Summerfield 2012). Not consuming adequate amount of protein and nutrients lead to the breakdown of muscles and slowing down the metabolic rate. From this information, I come to know that maintaining weight is essential for people, after they have gone through the weight management program (Martinez and Robinson 2012). While consulting with physician, I realized that the behavioral traits are keeping them in trouble. I reviewed literature related to weight maintenance after weig ht management program. In an article provided by Bunoy and Mirasol (2012), I realized that we should not skip breakfast. I have to convince people not to skip meals and should weigh regularly for keeping concentration on food habit. I also realized that it is harmful if we do not continue gym class. Now What Analyzing the current research-based information about the effects and approaches, which people can undertake to improve their dietary and lifestyle changes, I realized what approaches they should undertake to combat with weight gaining. Therefore, they need to take action to manage their weight gain (Schaumburg et al. 2013). In this context, I made a list of personal weight management objectives by consulting with other members of the weight management program. To do Description Not to skip meal Skipping meal leads to breakdown of muscle and slows down metabolism process, so we would consume small amount of meal after every 2-3 hours Renewing Jim membership they would renew Jim membership, which would keep them active and help to burn excess fat Keeping activity log Keeping an activity log would help to be aware of regular activity and its suitability to manage weight Tracking weight regularly It would help to keep themselves remembering about the weight management Commitment to my fitness class People should give commitment to fitness class to ensure they are not gaining enough weight Keep in touch with scientific journal Keeping in touch to a scientific journal would help to be updated about weight management tips, its pros and cons. 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