What Is the Healthiest Path to Weight Loss?

While there are plenty of fad diets and weird alleged weight loss hacks out there, losing weight doesn’t have to mean suffering from hunger. In fact, it shouldn’t mean treating your body badly at all. 

As the experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put it, healthy weight loss means eating nutritiously and getting regular physical activity, plus making other choices like getting enough sleep and managing your stress. 

If you’ve been trying to lose weight, you probably know that’s a lot easier than it sounds. That’s particularly true when you’re trying to go it alone. Enter our team of weight loss specialists. We partner with you when you visit us at Medical Associates Of North Texas in Fort Worth, Texas. Together, we develop a healthy weight loss plan for your body. That includes meeting with our registered dietician.

What healthy weight loss looks like

A strong weight loss plan needs to focus on two big components: nutrition and exercise. 

Getting good food into your body isn’t always easy. That’s why, as we develop a healthy weight loss plan for you, we evaluate your current eating habits and your body’s needs. Changing your relationship with food and choosing a weight loss diet that works for your lifestyle helps you achieve weight loss results you can actually maintain. 

If you want to get a feel for how you’re doing now when it comes to nutrition, you can take our quiz. 

Diet and exercise aren’t the only pieces of the puzzle. As the above guidance from the CDC highlights, healthy weight loss means taking a comprehensive approach to your wellness. Getting good sleep and learning to manage your stress makes it easier to move toward your weight loss goals. Insufficient sleep can make your metabolism less effective, and chronic stress is linked to weight gain. 

At the same time, these steps to healthy weight loss boost your overall wellness. You drop pounds while feeling better, which means you have more energy to continue on your weight loss journey, helping you make significant and sustainable progress.  

Getting started toward healthy weight loss

Our team helps people throughout the Fort Worth area with healthy weight loss. Your personalized program starts with an evaluation from one of our physicians. 

If you’re a candidate for our weight loss program, it includes:

• A weekly visit with your dietician
• A monthly visit with your physician
• A personalized meal plan
• 12 weeks of nutrition education

Based on your medical history and your weight loss goals, we also determine if you would benefit from weight loss medication. If so, we work that into your weight loss program in a safe and healthy way. 

We work with you to find regular physical activity that works for you, too. Even going for a daily walk can help to move you toward your weight loss goals. 

Additionally, our team can help with lifestyle factors that could otherwise impede your progress. If you have an issue with sufficient sleep, for example, we offer sleep studies. This allows our team to help you determine what happens at night to interfere with your sleep quality. 

If you’re on Medicare and you have a body mass index of 30 or greater, ask our team about the Intensive Behavioral Therapy (IBT) for Obesity program. Medicare covers this weight loss support. 

Healthy weight loss means evaluating a handful of different wellness categories and figuring out what your body needs in each. To talk with our team about nutrition, exercise, and other factors that affect your weight, send us a message online or call our office at 972-433-7178 today.