This Monday, May 6 will be broadcast at 9 p.m. on M6 a special issue of E=M6 devoted to weight loss, “Why am I growing, how am I losing weight?” of which Top Santé is a partner. Mac Lessggy will host this great evening alongside Alexandra Dalu, nutritionist. Together, they will come back to the main received ideas that persist around weight loss and will reveal recent scientific discoveries on this mechanism. For example, Did you know that poor sleep makes us fat? That stress triggers a craving for fatty and sugary foods? Or that you can modify your microbiota, this stomach ecosystem as unique as your DNA? Before the broadcast, we asked 3 questions to Alexandra Dalu to find out more.
Top Santé: What is your role in the show “Why am I growing, how am I losing weight”?
Alexandra Dalu, nutritionist: First of all, I would like to thank Mac Lesggy and M6 for their interest in my work as a doctor first and foremost, and their professional trust in the design of this unprecedented program. The role I have in the show was threefold: backstage for its conception with the help of the team, in co-hosting on screen with Mac Lesggy and as a doctor in my office for the follow-up of 3 witnesses. Following our meeting with Mac Lesggy in March 2018, we developed the idea of this program around healthy weight with a work of popular science relating the ideas received around weight loss over about a year and 3 months of filming.
Top Santé: In your opinion, what are the main causes of weight regain after a diet?
Alexandra Dalu, nutritionist: We regain weight for many reasons because an individual has his own genetic program and metabolism.
However, any restrictive diet leads to the phenomenon of “catch up fat” or famous yoyo. When you eat less, you lose muscle as well as fat. And when you eat again “normally”, your body makes you gain more fat than at the start to protect your muscles from a possible future diet. The other obvious cause is physical inactivity and poor sleep as well as stress and hormonal diseases.
The fact is that it is necessary to make a sharp medical check-up before embarking on a lasting weight loss. Nutrition is studied at the faculty of medicine in a very specialized way. It allows the patient to be taken care of in a multidisciplinary and global way. We must manage stress, psychology, hormones, deficiencies, the type of food taste, sleep, physical activity and take into consideration pathologies in progress or to be discovered. If not, failure is inevitable. Weight loss is medical, paramedical and above all team work.
Top Health: Mistakes not to make to lose weight permanently?
Alexandra Dalu, nutritionist: The errors are multiple and specific to each one according to their received ideas, which is moreover the title of my book prefaced by the world champion of Judo, Teddy Riner: “The 100 received ideas which prevent you from going well” .
Thus, answering you in a few points would be caricatural. However, it seems to me that the most important error is not to consult a doctor who follows a structured and personalized protocol to follow his patient in his plan to lose weight in fat mass.
To find out more, visit the website ofAlexandra Dalu
