When drug therapy is discontinued. When the counsellor moves on. When the patient is “cured” of excess weight. This is the point at which a dieter requires the maximum attention and assistance. Lipotrim weight maintenance programmes assist your patients in long-term weight management
Weight maintenance requires control of eating behaviour over a sustained period of time. While willpower can often help people lose weight over a short defined period, control for the months, years or even decades required for maintenance is quite a different story. Loss of weight by any means confers absolutely no lasting gift for weight maintenance. Weight
loss, however achieved, is only the beginning of the treatment, not the end point.
A person who has lost weight has to cope with the fact that he calorie requirement to maintain a lighter body is lower than they had become accustomed to eating. Returning to prediet eating behaviour will result in an early return to prediet weight. There is no “set point”. There is only a prolonged habitual approach to food choices and portion sizes that satisfy.
What usually surprises Lipotrim dieters, is the sudden freedom from food tyranny in conjunction with the appearance of urinary ketones, which are induced by a very low calorie, low carbohydrate intake and sustained long enough to deplete body stores of glycogen and force the utilisation of stored fat. Weight loss with Lipotrim is certain due to the large calorie
gap between intake and any level of expenditure. What allows the dieter to lose substantial weight, however, is the
prolonged freedom from the desperate drive to eat. This freedom is lost as soon as food is reintroduced.
Lipotrim weight maintenance formulas are not simply meal replacements
One of the most dramatic metabolic consequences of substantial weight loss is an improvement in insulin resistance.
In the immediate post-diet condition there is usually a continued excessive secretion of the now normally functioning
insulin, which can lead to mild hypoglyceamia. This is interpreted by the patient as a strong signal to eat.
Unless this is blocked, the dieter will overeat and regain weight. Maintenance requires calming these food cravings. Slowing the absorption of glucose from the gut into the bloodstream is the surest way to minimise the insulin response and reduce the recurrence of cravings subsequent to a meal.
Using what is well known to solve a major problem
Reliable and controlled slowing of the absorption of glucose from the gut is achieved by the addition of soluble fibre to a meal. Nourishment is still important, however, especially when food intake will become restricted. The addition of a complete micronutrient mix to the potent soluble fibre assures the provision of the complete complement of essential amino acids, fatty acids, trace elements, vitamins and minerals that one would expect to be provided by a full meal. The result is a greatly enhanced record of post-diet weight stability.
Weight management is enhanced in pharmacies
Many practices treat their own patients with Lipotrim, and the weight loss successes with their major clinical benefits more than justifies the practice time. The difficulty comes with justifying practice time and resources for patients who have achieved weight loss and are now both healthier and trying to maintain a normal weight. The expectation that this patient will sustain the weight loss without considerable help is naïve. Pharmacy-based programmes are ideal for the varying needs of patients. Obesity prevention, treatment and long-term management is a pharmacy health promotion service. Care of patients during weight loss, is ideal when carried out by the pharmacist who understands the implications of diseases or drug treatments that may interact with the weight loss programme. But, it is in the postdiet stage that the pharmacist is best placed to provide the essential longterm guidance, support and education that will increase the length of time that the weight loss is maintained. Pharmacists armed with the Lipotrim programme can assist your overweight patients cope with long-term weight management.
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