Healthy Weight Loss

You’ve probably tried dieting, exercise, counting calories, jogging. Maybe you’ve even hired a personal trainer to help you get the results you wanted. In some cases you may have even been prescribed something by your doctor but alas, nothing has really done the trick.

The medical team at Revive Health Center is here to optimize your health and your quality of life! That means where other plans have failed we will put together a plan that works for YOUR body based on your family history, genetics and blood work.

Being overweight has so many affects on the way you feel and act. Our goal is to get you feeling your best so you can act your best. Don’t be discouraged because you’ve dieted and it didn’t work. Very often the root cause of weight gain has nothing to do with how or what you’re eating.

If you haven’t already read about the affects of hormone imbalance read it here.

Putting on a little weight is not strictly the product of sloth and gluttony. Everybody has a weight that their body can defend and most people know what that weight is. You lose a little weight, but tend to bounce back to your original weight again and again. That weight is called the “set point”. Although weight is influenced by what and how much one eats, and by such things as exercise, ordinarily it will revert to its most comfortable level.

One thing that the staff at Revive Health Centers knows, is the fact that weight loss itself is not a particularly difficult problem. If a human being is put on an 800 or 1000-calorie diet, they lose weight!!! There do not appear to be a large number of people who have undesirable responses to a 1000 calorie diet that prevents them from losing weight: the few claims that have been investigated have not held up to scrutiny. In other words, there are no people who are totally resistant to weight loss. However, the vast majority of humans are very resistant to the maintenance of a body weight below whatever their set point is.

“The medical staff at Revive is here to help make the process easier from medically proven methods, not by making you sprint 20 miles on a treadmill in the middle of a hot gym.”

Your individual set point is the approximate weight and fat percentage that your body settles into during adulthood. Body fat is actually regulated by the brain’s weight regulating mechanism in the hypothalamus. This mechanism chooses the amount of body fat it considers ideal for your body’s needs and then works tirelessly to maintain that level.

Your regulating mechanism controls body weight in two critically important ways. First, it effects of the amount of food you eat by increasing or decreasing your appetite to maintain the set point weight. As you lose weight, it signals hunger; as you gain weight, it reduces appetite. Second, the regulating mechanism can trigger the body’s systems to waste excess energy if you overeat or conserve energy if you don’t eat enough. Energy conservation may lead to muscle loss and a slow down of the endocrine system due to the body’s attempts to protect its fat stores for use in the future. In addition, less muscle mass means the body requires still fewer calories.

Your personal set point is genetically determined. There are those who are able to eat anything and everything they desire and still maintain a low body fat percentage, but others who continually struggle with their genetic set point and constantly diet and exercise to lose weight. Often this weight loss is a loss of both muscle and fat tissue. Once they stop dieting, those who have battled fat loss incorrectly or are simply unable to maintain the proper lifestyle will inevitably return to their original body composition or gain additional body fat. The subsequent weight gain consists primarily of fat tissue.

Don’t go to your family doctor for weight loss. By all means if you come down with a case of strep throat go see him! But if you want to lose weight and improve your overall quality of life… come to Revive Health Center.