I was talking to one of the doctors on our team last night and asked the question on how it would be best to introduce a weight loss program to a doctor who had not seen it before. What I found may surprise you a bit.
I was told that it is close to impossible to get into a doctor’s office these days. That it didn’t even matter if you where a pharmaceutical rep, you would probably not get in unless you knew them personally. She suggested that our doctors are very busy people and they don’t like to be sold to. I said then how do they find out about programs or new therapies that may assist their patient care? Answer: They either read about it or get curious themselves or hear it from a patient or another doctor.
I had asked this question because we found out in Seattle that the doctors where very hard to get into their offices. Now the ones we did get into already knew the nurse that I was working with and readily admitted they did not have a weight loss solution for their patients. For instance they told us that the average OB/GYN patient having a baby put on more than 50 extra lbs per pregnancy and often that 50 lbs was still there when they became pregnant with baby number two and added even more weight.
So what advice does the medical profession offer? Eat less, exercise more. Or surgery is the other option. Then even with surgery you need to go directly to a bariatric clinic to have that offered because your family doctor most likely will not offer that solution either (mine didn’t even with a BMI of 43). Very few offer any kind of program for lifestyle change and weight loss coaching what so ever. That is why we do what we do. My personal experience was that my doctor never offered me any real solution except medications. Those very same medications had side effects that may help my blood pressure but they would also most likely slow my weight loss attempts even further.
What is a person to do? When they go looking there is all kinds of snake oil and potions. How are they to know? Doctors say eat less. Physical trainers say you can work it off. Then there is the lap bands and gastric bypass solutions. But no one offers a planed program that gets the weight off quickly and easily. Heck no wonder it took me over 20 years to find a solution to my weight even though it has been available for nearly 30 years.
Down 94 lbs and in better shape than I have been in 30 years and it took me less than 7 months to do it. No surgery, no diet pills, and now with the weight off I can concentrate on physical training and continue to improve my longevity and optimize my health. Is your doctor giving you an answer on what to do with your health or are they just giving you another pill? Share your story with me, I would like to know. Have questions about how to have your doctor help you? Just ask I have the information that if really looked at will show them how effective our program is.
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Great work with the weight loss! Thats a 5th grader you never have to carry around with you anymore
I agree with you on this too. This is actually something I was thinking about the other day. Most doctors recommend a VLCD (very low calorie diet) for weight loss, its even on the website for the National Institute for Health!
That kind of thinking is dangerous and even if someone has the mental fortitude to only consume 500 calories a day there is no way they could continue that for very long and afterwards they’ve wrecked their metabolism so bad that they gain the weight right back. This got longer then I wanted but I do agree that the medical community doesn’t really understand weight loss either.
Gary a very low calorie diet at 500 would be hard to meet nutritional support that the body needs to prevent muscle loss as well. However it can be done with the right food to the tune of 800-1000 calories which is actually more then people will see after surgical solutions in most cases. Also it doesn’t take a herculean effort on their part if the satiety index of the food keeps them full and maintains their blood sugar levels every couple of hours. Problem is most people will try to do that on their own and won’t maintain nutrition requirements along with the limited calories. So they won’t make it but a few days and give up.
The problem with metabolism can be solved by reintroducing food properly and slowly increasing the calorie intake to a normal basic metabolic rate requirement to maintain the weight loss afterwords. Often people have no coaching and they just go back to old habits of eating the way they did before they lost the weight. That is why their weight loss doesn’t stick. However if they take the time to re-amp their metabolism and use exercise to maintain/increase muscle mass, they will find it much easier to only do that journey once.
Thanks for the response and good to have you around.