How to lose weight and maintain results?

HOW TO LOSE WEIGHT AND BE HEALTHY AT THE SAME TIME?

Every day, a new and crazy solution emerges to solve the problem of excess weight that afflicts so many people. It may seem easy: take a drug, stop eating or exercise exhaustively and you'll lose weight. However, this is not healthy, as it will be at the expense of losing muscle, bone and other tissues that nobody wants to lose!

Losing weight in an unhealthy and unsustainable way makes it almost impossible to maintain the results achieved, simply because a body subjected to a “shock treatment” tends to regain all the weight lost, resulting in the “accordion effect”, the nightmare of all those who tirelessly seek to lose weight.

So many people complain, saying: “Dr. Icarus, I've spent so much money, I've tried everything to lose weight, but I can't!”

To those who tell me this, I ask: “Did you really do everything you could? Really? Did you look for a miracle solution or did you do the right thing?”

In my experience, when people do what they should, they lose weight, it's as simple as that! So the phrase “I can't” doesn't make sense to me. What I tell my patients is: if you want to and you have the right tools, you can, you can do it.

And how can you lose weight while actually losing fat and preserving (or even increasing) your lean mass and health?

Here are 10 tips to help you:

1️⃣ Adopt and maintain good lifestyle habits at all times - such as eating healthily, sleeping well, drinking water, managing stress, breathing properly, avoiding poisoning and exercising regularly. After all, if they are the key to any success in health, the same goes for effective and healthy weight loss.

2️⃣ Feed your body properly - your metabolism determines the quality and speed of your body's functioning. Don't let it lack water, nutrition and oxygen, which must be supplied in sufficient quantity and quality. Anything that slows down your metabolism will cause you to gain weight and become bloated, not least as a way of saving and storing fuel.

3️⃣ Reduce the sugars in your life - especially simple carbohydrates, which are abundantly present in foods such as rice, potatoes, pasta, bread, cakes, cookies and the like. Fatty tissue builds up its reserves mainly by converting these sugars into triglycerides, the main storage components of fat cells.

4️⃣ Deflate yourself - any inflammation in your body tends to increase the storage of fat by your fatty tissue, causing it to increase in size. In addition, all fluid retention contributes to swelling and weight gain.

5️⃣ Reduce or eliminate gluten, milk and dairy products from your diet as much as possible - they can cause inflammation by several different mechanisms, and as we know, inflammation can lead to weight gain and bloating.

6️⃣ Detoxify yourself - intoxication uses up your body's energy and resources, which reduces your metabolism and causes inflammation. Often, people adopt a healthy lifestyle but don't see the expected results due to intoxication, leading to frustration. It's always a good idea to investigate possible poisoning by metals such as aluminum, mercury and lead, for example.

7️⃣ Do not take medication without medical supervision and without solving the above factors, as this may not bring results, may be addictive or may cause unpleasant side effects. Those who solve the above factors usually don't even need medication to lose weight!

8️⃣ Identify the cause - bad habits, anxiety, hormonal imbalance, and many other factors can interfere with difficulty losing weight. If the underlying problem is anxiety, this needs to be addressed. In other situations, hormonal imbalances affect metabolism. For example, thyroid malfunction is something to be investigated in cases of difficulty losing weight, even after regulating habits and slow metabolism. Many root causes are solved with a healthy lifestyle, but in other cases the problem is multifactorial, so a professional analysis is very useful.

9️⃣ Consider the targeted use of supplements - prescribed by a qualified professional, there are supplements that can help with weight loss, such as InSea, Cissus Quadrangularis, Adipogen, Morosil, Kaempferol, Citrus Aurantium, Sinetrol, Garcinia, L-carnitine, CLA, Pholia, but they should be prescribed taking into account the individuality of the patient and by a qualified professional.

🔟 Have an excellent professional accompaniment in your weight loss process, whenever possible - preferably with professionals who work in an integrative way, who are up-to-date and who attend to you in a humanized way, to help you achieve your goals.