subject: Sometimes You Just Need To Get Some Help [print this page] Ever feel like everyone around you stays skinny and pretty and trendy, but your weight gain just will not get under control? It is a hard thing to face that sometimes, your own body is just working against you. If you have tried diets, pills, and exercise, it may be time to go see a doctor and get some help with this situation.
No one should have to explain their weight, no matter what the situation, but sometimes having an answer for yourself as to why the weight will not leave your body can be very refreshing and reduce the stress you are under (and who needs more stress before Christmas? Not me!)
Looking for a weight loss clinic in Nashville may be a good place to start, but seeing a family physician would not hurt either. Getting checked out for food allergies, even little ones, can identify some sources of weight gain. Another thing to have the doctor check is your thyroid and liver. Crazy as it may sound, if either one is failing or has already failed, it will cause weight gain because the organ is no longer processing the chemicals that the body is producing and storing for it.
There is also your diet to look at. Going on a diet is much less effective that it has been made out to be, simply because people "go on a diet," they do not keep it. Most people eliminate all the foods they love the most for just a short period of time, and when their weight is down, or when stress sets in and gets too great, they simply start eating those foods again.
So, going on a diet is much less effective than simply changing your diet. Adding in more of the right foods and making sure you eat those in direct proportion (i.e. more of them) to the foods you love to have but know are not helping your weight loss program will help a lot. Eating more veggies than cake and drinking more water than soda pop can only help your crusade against the weight.
However, even these cannot help if you have an allergy to most of the foods you eat, or if you have a genetic predisposition towards fat buildup. Visiting your doctor, even if he's up in Nashville will help you determine the best plan of action for both your weight loss and your healthy living.
