Weight Management:

Most people have had problems sometime in their lives with either weighing too much or too little. Obesity is an excess proportion of total body fat compared to muscle, bone, and body water. A person is considered obese when his or her weight is 20% or more above normal weight. he most common measure of obesity is the body mass index (BMI). A person is considered overweight if his or her BMI is between 25 and 29.9; a person is considered obese if his or her BMI is over 30.

"Morbid obesity" means that a person is either 50%-100% over normal weight, more than 100 pounds over normal weight, has a BMI of 40 or higher, or is sufficiently overweight to severely interfere with health or normal function.

For men, obesity generally occurs when calories taken in through food are more than the calories being burned by the body (metabolism). For women, obesity and weight gain seems to be more hormonally related than a calorie in/calorie out issue. Excess estrogen will put weight on the hips, outer thighs, and buttocks. Excess progesterone will put weight on in the center belly and inner thighs. High levels of Cortisol will increase your insulin production and put a layer of fat around the belly (spare tire) and possibly the face, making it very round (moon facies). Low thyroid will lower your metabolism and you’ll gain all over. Regulating hormones becomes essential for most weight loss.

Other causes of weight gain are: age, gender (women more than men), genetics, environmental factors, illness (hypothyroidism, depression, and chronic viral infections like mononucleosis and Epstein Barr), medications (like steroids and antidepressants), physical activity or a lack thereof, and psychological factors (over-eating due to boredom, sadness, anger, etc),.

When weight gain is no longer occurring but you still have stored fat that won’t go away no matter how much exercise you do, then you can successfully do liposuction (if there is a lot of fat) or Mesotherapy for fat loss (like LipoDissolve) to help sculpt problem areas. These procedures are very effective in getting rid of storage fat, but if you want to go back to eating cake and not working out, then the fat will come back.

Being underweight is also a big problem for some people. This problem is generally due to malnutrition or malabsorption. If someone is not absorbing the food they eat properly, maybe because of Celiac disease or Leaky Gut Syndrome, then their bodies are not even recognizing the food they eat as fuel. Their bodies will slowly digest their own muscle for fuel. In these cases, it is essential to find the cause in order to reverse the process. Any inflammation in the intestines needs to be reduced for the absorption of nutrients and the intestinal lining needs to be repaired so it is not allowing large proteins through, to which the body reacts as if it was a foreign invader, like a bacteria.