Before summer, there are many candidates for weight loss. With often fanciful goals. However, we must give ourselves a limit. Dangerous weight loss results in fatigue, loss of vitality, low mood.
If we are only interested in the number of pounds to lose, giving a figure is almost impossible. There is a simple limit, however. Under no circumstances should weight loss result in fatigue, loss of vitality, or a drop in mood. The opposite is guaranteed if this weight loss is harmonious. Do not hesitate to ask your entourage for an opinion on the perception they may have of your way of being during this experience which, I repeat, is made to considerably improve your general condition.
Finally, apart from the particular personalities in whom this weight loss reveals a significant psychiatric problem, it is probable that the slowing down and stagnation is imposed against the will of the one who is losing weight. The issue is then rather the opposite: not to see the weight curve again fly away in the opposite direction.
With a slightly reduced diet, the weight loss is significant enough that the goal is absolutely no longer about the quantity, but rather how to eat better. It is she who will be important in the long run.
Finally, the danger of excessive weight loss is not reflected only in a number but also in deficiencies that “eat better” must imperatively take into account.
Interview with Dr Patrick Serog, nutritionist in Paris
Q: In your extensive experience, what are the dangers of excessive weight loss?
PS: When the weight loss is too fast, great fatigue sets in. Due to the loss of muscles, which is too great, which makes the movement difficult. We also consume fewer vitamins and minerals, compared to pre-diet habits. This sudden decrease creates a lack which contributes to fatigue.
Excessive weight loss can also cause gout attacks, fortunately only in susceptible people. It heals very well. Gallbladder stones have also been found to be more frequent, which can cause a very painful attack called cholecystitis; Here again, medicine is very effective in stopping it. Finally if you have a “hiatus hernia”, that is to say a poorly closed valve between the stomach and the esophagus, weight loss by a simple mechanical fact of imbalance of belly fat can make it worse.
Q: What do you call excessive weight loss?
PS: For a man, 3kilos maximum of monthly loss; 2 kilos for the woman.
It is very easy to lose weight quickly; Some surgeons send us for example patients to whom they advise a loss of 10, 15 kilos quickly. We know how to do it, without difficulty. On the other hand, we also warn the patient that we will not know how to stabilize him, because a rapid and significant weight loss is the door wide open to the resumption of the pounds. The body needs a steady rhythm. For example, this is one of the very big drawbacks of this very fashionable high protein diet, in which weight gain is almost inevitable. Another consequence, eating disorders, more in fragile people, who will have tastes of certain foods which can last a very long time, months and months, and are similar to anorexia. They can only be resolved with the help of a shrink.
Q: Why do nutritionists rarely help themselves from psychiatry?
PS: First of all because it’s very difficult to get someone to see a psychiatrist? “I’m not a mad doctor!” “. Then, it is inaccurate: I use the services of the psychiatrist but within the framework of a long process.
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