Overcoming Weight Loss Challenges and Maintaining Long-Term Results

We do understand and accept the challenges of not only the weight loss struggle but also the re-challenge of weight regain after weight loss that many people experience if not followed up closely. Thus we emphasize that the single most important thing in this fight against obesity is close coordination with your weight loss team at Institute Cosmetique. When we start the journey of weight loss, we feel the hardest challenge will be actually losing the hard-earned weight (pun intended, well, you didn't gain weight overnight, did you?). Losing weight is hard, but what's hardest is maintaining that lost weight in the coming months and years. It occurs not only because one loses the initial willpower or effort, but also because it may be your biology that you will need to fight against throughout this battle. Once your body recognizes that you are trying to limit your calories, it goes into "famine" mode or calorie-conserving mode, trying to protect the greatest source of energy, "the fat". Once you understand this concept, your struggle to fight off obesity becomes much easier, as these plateaus in weight will not dishearten you. Knowing that some intervals of "non weight loss" do come during your weight loss treatment will not let you get disappointed when it occurs. Keeping in view these simple yet powerful strategies will make your search for the best weight loss treatment in Lahore, Pakistan, much more fruitful, as you will be in a better position to select the best weight loss specialist in Lahore, Pakistan.

We have all seen or heard those "transformational" stories of people in TV commercials losing weight with some "miracle diet" or "miracle pill, drops or sachets", and we are lured to believe that with this minimal intervention a miracle will happen without a well-coordinated and planned effort to lose the excess body weight. After hearing such claims, one immediately tries to search for a clinic for the best weight loss treatment in Lahore, Pakistan. But did you ever wonder how exactly it will be accomplished by those who make these false claims? Or what happens after people achieve their goal weight by participating in a "crash diet" or "keto diet" program? After months of non-stop effort, does that ideal weight remain the same in the longer run? We bet these success stories don't show us that part, nor do they show the real impact of losing weight and losing fat on one's appearance and beauty: the stretched and loose skin, sagging breasts, loose jowls, flabby abdomen and an overall aged look that comes within a few months after one starts losing weight aggressively. What true implications weight loss has on the body and ultimately on the psychological health of that person are usually neglected by most, if not all, such weight loss programs.

Intensive lifestyle interventions, including behavioral changes around dieting and physical exercise, are the foundation of a successful weight loss process. These interventions might include various medications, surgical or non-surgical procedures, since they are crucial in producing weight loss that is connected with various health benefits and medical cost savings. But two additional points must be taken into consideration. One, weight loss must not make you look older: overall fat loss causes fat loss on the face too, making you look older in many cases. We generally address that aggressively by implementing anti-aging minimally invasive or non-surgical procedures like fillers and skin tightening technologies like Radiofrequency (Radiage or Thermage) and High Intensity Focused Ultrasound, to name a few. Second is the psychological well-being and the support one may need from time to time, on a constant basis, to fight against obesity. Alhamdulillah, we provide both of these supports 24/7, 365 days a year to our clientele.

Struggles of Weight Loss and Weight Regain

Talking about how a patient feels after weight loss: surely extremely happy and joyous, and in a sort of "know-it-all" state of mind on how not to gain weight. But what they do not understand is that, apart from psychological changes, they face biological and physiological changes during their weight-loss state which they fail to conceive, and that is what drives the weight regain.

This is exactly why we see the same weight loss patients regain weight, and that is demoralizing in itself; it is very common for such patients to blame their own resolve. That is precisely why it is of utmost importance to understand the biologic defense system of body fat mass, to understand the fat regain occurrence, and it is an essential step in helping such patients maintain long-term weight-loss results.

So far, even the best lifestyle interventions show weight regain, usually observed after 1 year. When we add any type of physical activity to diet, it gives more optimal results than diet alone. Even then, diet alone or diet along with exercise are both challenged by weight regain. Over 20 studies on "long-term weight loss" found that more than half of the lost weight is regained within 2 years and almost 80% of the lost weight is gained back in 5 years. Isn't that a mood damper!

To understand the phenomenon more, we first need to know about the hormones that drive hunger and satiety, called Leptin and Ghrelin. Some of you might have already heard of them. To simplify: Leptin decreases your hunger (increases the feeling of fullness), while Ghrelin increases hunger (now you know the real villain). The problem is that when we lose weight, these hormones change too. Many research studies showed that when a person is in the process of losing weight, they are also losing Leptin. One study found that in 10 weeks the body loses almost 13% of weight, but Leptin levels (remember, the one telling your brain that you're full?) fall by up to 64%, and even when weight loss is 8% at 62 weeks, Leptin is still reduced by 35%. Don't forget that when Leptin levels fall, your body feels starved. So with the decrease of Leptin, Ghrelin increases, because it's the hunger hormone; it makes you feel hungry because the signal your brain is receiving is "starvation mode on". So the patient eats more, and not surprisingly, the study found an increase in patients' appetite due to weight loss. A weight loss patient is out of the frying pan but into the fire, because now they have changes in both appetite/food intake regulation and energy expenditure that favor weight regain. (So much for the best weight loss treatment in Lahore, Pakistan.)

Now we have to understand and accept that the more time passes, the more behavioral changes take place: physical activity gets less and less, eating habits and food itself change, and excessive mobile usage, computer games and even global warming all play a key role in promoting obesity and create an "obesogenic environment". This is not to say that we don't have some "successful losers" who have maintained weight loss over 10 years, as per data from the National Weight Control Registry (NWCR), which was founded in 1993 to identify successful losers, or what we call weight-loss maintainers, and to study the strategies used to achieve and maintain weight loss. You want the best weight loss treatment in Lahore, Pakistan? Now you know where to look and what to look at.

What Does Cosmetique Offer? | Why Cosmetique Is Considered to Provide the Best Weight Loss Treatment in Lahore, Pakistan

What is it that Cosmetique does that results in the best weight loss treatments in Lahore? At Cosmetique we believe that weight loss is a long-term treatment strategy, and thus we maintain contact over time with our weight loss patients. Comprehensive lifestyle interventions need maintenance too. So our goal is to ensure our weight loss patients understand that they're in for the long haul. Losing weight isn't the key; it is more important to maintain it, especially while going through the biological, physiological, psychological and hormonal changes that start to occur with weight loss. We believe obesity is a disease and should be taken as seriously as a disease. Patients need to understand the challenges of this tough journey. They need to be motivated and given strict yet practical and easy dietary approaches, the latest medications and supplements and, if and when needed, surgical interventions. Failures and disappointments should be taken as part of this journey. Most of all, we don't let patients blame themselves for weight regain, because it is most definitely not their willpower, it is their biology. That's what they need to understand. If we make them understand the biology of weight regain after weight loss, we can easily intervene in the challenge of weight regain even before it happens. So the next time you search for the best weight loss treatment in Lahore, Pakistan, you need to know what you're searching for. You need a permanent guide who can literally do handholding at every step of your successful weight loss journey, InshAllah, so that you can take this challenge head on. We can proudly say that at Institute Cosmetique, we offer the best weight loss treatment in Lahore, Pakistan, one that can be matched with some of the best centers in the world. Please call our UAN 03-111-077-111 to make an appointment at one of our three locations (Gulberg, DHA or Johar Town) in Lahore with one of our obesity experts.