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The Real Goal:
Improve your health;
Celebrate Your Journey
Remember, obesity is a chronic disease, like diabetes or hypertension. In a sense, patients are struggling against their own body's coordinated effort to stop them from losing weight.
Acknowledge the challenging nature of weight control by adopting problem-solving responses to goals that are not fully met. Remember, the examination of circumstances leading to unmet goals can lead to new and more effective strategies.
Improvement of one's health is the goal of obesity treatment.
Use simple charts or graphs to summarize changes in weight and the associated risk factors that were present at the time treatment for obesity was sought. Looking at the big picture -- beyond body weight -- is motivational in one's ongoing quest to improve health.
--National Institutes of Health
View online LivingAfterWLS Digest September 6, 2012
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