Weight Loss Maintenance Program

Most of us have experienced the frustration of working hard to achieve weight loss, only to gain back the weight. Weight regain after dieting is common. It occurs in about 80% of dieters and can be avoided through participation in a successful weight maintenance program.

Unfortunately, many Americans would rather continue to spend money on diets that have little chance of long-term success instead of attending a weight maintenance program.

Dieting alone cannot provide a long-term weight loss solution

Any diet that results in your body getting fewer calories each day than it requires will result in some degree of weight loss. Even fad diets can result in weight loss, although they rarely provide sufficient nutritional value to promote your health. Dieting alone does not create lasting weight loss because obesity is not just a matter of consuming too many calories. It is a complex condition that results from a combination of environmental factors that promote overeating and minimal activity, emotional issues that cause people to use food for comfort, and genetic factors that predispose them to gain weight.

Just treating one part of a disease, which is what we do when we try to lose weight through diet alone, is unlikely to provide a sustainable cure.

People who use calorie-cutting as their only weight loss treatment typically regain weight once they stop dieting and return to the same habits that made them originally gain weight.

The complex nature of obesity and its treatment is why the Oak Brook Health and Nutrition team believes in a comprehensive approach to weight management that includes a well developed maintenance program. Once you lose the weight using a full or partial formula program, continuing to receive the tools, support, and guidance through a long-term maintenance program has been demonstrated in numerous medical studies to be the most effective way to avoid weight regain.

Accepting that weight management is probably a lifelong issue means that you can stop throwing away your money on quick fixes and so-called miracle treatments that simply don't deliver the advertised results. Oak Brook Health and Nutrition provides a research-validated, widely acclaimed, long-term weight loss solution whenever you are ready to use it.

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