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How to lose weight

How to lose weight

Protein protein diet

The reasoning behind the birth of protein diets was clear: How to make the body lose weight preferentially at the expense of storage fat, leaving alone the protein from its own muscle tissue as a metabolically closer source of storage energy. Is that even possible? The task was mastered by Dr. Blackburn (later a professor at Harvard in the USA), who formulated the Protein Sparing Modified Fast protocol in 1973. This laid the foundation for the so-called ketogenic diets.

More about the Medidiet® method Client experiences

If you want to lose weight

  • without the yo-yo effect
  • with really tasty meals
  • preferably at the expense of adipose tissue
  • without feeling hungry, tired and weak
  • under the supervision of an expert

OTHER WEIGHT LOSS METHODS

EAT LESS AND MOVE MORE

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The most natural, cheapest, and without a doubt, healthiest way to reduce body weight is to simply increase energy expenditure compared to energy intake. In practice, this means changing the diet and increasing physical activity. The problem with this completely correct approach to excess weight is that it takes a disproportionately long time to reduce fat tissue. The client sees only a very small weight loss in a matter of weeks, his motivation usually weakens in proportion to this and he usually returns to the old lifestyle that led him to be overweight or obese after a while. Despite the alarmingly high percentage of "outcasts", it is the most natural way of normalizing body weight. The idea of some "experts" that fasting is dangerous for the body is naive and medically indefensible if we are talking about otherwise healthy individuals whose only problem is being overweight and the health problems associated with it (high blood pressure, joint pain, high blood fat levels, fatty liver, gout, etc.).

 

LOW-ENERGY (HYPO CALORIC) DIETS

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Any reduction diet must be low-energy by nature. This type of diet is the most widely available in pharmacies and food supplement stores. From a medical point of view, it is still a problematic approach to weight reduction, because it only solves the problem commercially without the client understanding two things: 1) No product will make him lose weight. 2) If he does not change something fundamental in his diet and approach to life management, he will soon find himself back where he was (the so-called yo-yo effect). The principle of low-energy diets is an attempt to arithmetically shorten energy intake by replacing usual food with food of low energy value. Faced with a sudden decrease in energy supply, the organism first consumes its own most mobilizable reserves - muscle and liver glycogen and then proteins from its muscle tissue, from which it begins to create glucose. It leaves the storage fat tissue almost untouched, as it is the metabolically "farthest" source of stored energy. A completely regular accompanying phenomenon of these diets is hunger, which usually leads to the fact that the client - after a shorter or longer period of self-torture - returns to "normal" eating day after day, which his organism interprets as a temporary improvement of the unfortunate situation and suddenly gained energy it preferentially stores in fat tissue and not in plundered muscle. The final consequence is a further worsening of the muscle/fat tissue ratio and the development of the image of the so-called yo-yo effect. When reducing with the help of low-energy diets, the organism, therefore, mobilizes its energy reserves in the iron order: Carbohydrates (glycogen) - proteins (muscle tissue) - and fatty acids (fat tissue). After the reduction, the clients usually look very haggard and unhealthy, they are tired and weakened, and the loss of fat tissue is usually very small and certainly not commensurate with the effort expended.

 

CHEMICAL WAYS (SLIMMING PILLS)

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The most desecrated and medically worst way to approach the problem of being overweight or obese. Few branches of pharmacology have had such a checkered past riddled with so many harmful side effects as the so-called "diet for weight loss" (anorexics). Those who remember will remember mazindol (DEGONAN®), phenmetrazine, younger individuals sibutramine (MERIDIA®), or phentermine (ADIPEX®).

 

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS

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Today, the market is literally flooded with dietary supplements "for weight loss", which become the subject of more than one TV commercial, in which biochemical knowledge is usually described out of context and a miraculous interpolation of an isolated phenomenon to the obese organism as a whole is somehow automatically carried out. Advertising is usually built to be legally invulnerable.

 

FASHION WAVES

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You can regularly come across fads that represent various forms of diets that are guaranteed to work. Some are harmless and can contribute to weight reduction without endangering clients in any way (e.g. split diet or Chrono nutrition), while others are laughable, medically pointless, or downright dangerous, usually due to the one-sidedness of their composition (fat-eating diet, grapefruit diet, Hollywood diet, bikini diet,...). Just as it is generally true that when choosing food, one should not be guided by television advertising, in the same way, one should not be subject to this type of fashion wave.

 

THE ATKINS DIET

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The diet proposed by Dr. Atkins has a very specific position (elimination of sugars, a minimum of vegetables, and de facto unlimited amounts of animal proteins). From a biochemical and metabolic point of view, it must lead to a reduction and is therefore - unlike all the above-mentioned types of diet - systematically effective, but at the same time, it is very dangerous because it induces completely wrong eating habits (absence of fiber, vitamins, absolute lack of sugars, terrible supply saturated fats and harmful animal proteins, etc.). For these reasons, it must be strictly rejected.

 

READY-READY DIET FOODS IN A BOX

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Ready-made "real" meals that can be heated in a microwave oven are a recent fashion hit. They are not very suitable for a larger reduction in body weight, on the other hand, they are very useful and practical in the maintenance phase of the diet, i.e. after the client has reached the desired weight and must eat in such a way as not to gain weight again. This type of prepared food is more suitable for lunch during the working week than pizza or fast food!

 

NON-INVASIVE PHYSICAL METHODS

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Recently, physical methods have also become very widespread, which are intended to help get rid of excess weight "from the outside", that is, by external action on fat cells (so-called non-invasive liposuction), when there is no violation of the integrity of the organism. Several devices have appeared on the market that promise active reduction of adipose tissue while passively reading a fashion magazine. From a medical point of view, these are mostly neutral, supportive, and acceptable methods that can really have a positive effect on cellulite, for example, and thus have a place in anti-aging medicine rather than obesity. Their separate use for the therapy of overweight and obesity cannot lead to the expected results and must always be combined with a suitable "internal" procedure.

 

INVASIVE METHODS AND BARIATRIC SURGERY

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Gastric rings, gastric bands and bypasses, sleeve gastrectomy, surgical liposuction, and other invasive methods are, unfortunately, increasingly necessary, however, reserved exclusively for the so-called "morbid" forms of obesity, or for individuals who have a permanent lack of will and motivation to solve the problem of body weight differently. There is nothing to object to properly indicating invasive methods for the individuals described above, if we can shield the commercial side of the matter (most clients indicated for these interventions have not exhausted all options to solve the problem non-invasively). The side effects are significant, relapses are frequent, and the risks and burdens for the organism that they entail are high (surgical procedures under general anesthesia).