How to Reduce Body Weight Naturally
15Mar

It’s easy to gain weight, from eating too many highly processed foods, eating too much sugar, living a sedentary lifestyle, getting inadequate sleep, eating insufficient whole foods, eating too many calories, and being stressed out. Although weight gain is a natural part of life, factors like age, decreased levels of activity, loss of muscle mass, and a slower metabolism can significantly contribute to weight gain, giving you sleepless nights.

Tips on How to Reduce Body Weight Naturally

Here’s how to reduce body weight naturally:

Avoid Refined Carbohydrates

Don’t eat refined or simple carbohydrates such as white rice, white bread, white flour, candies, added sugars, and some types of cereal and pasta because they can be damaging to your body’s metabolism and contribute to weight gain. However, you can eat whole grain bread, whole grain rice, and whole grain pasta, which can all help you reduce weight and protect your body from diseases.

Eat More Protein 

Eating foods rich in protein is a good way of preventing or dealing with obesity. A protein-rich diet can improve appetite, body weight management, and cardiometabolic risk factors. Such protein-rich foods that aid weight loss include beans, eggs, chicken, fish, and lean meat. Lean protein foods like white poultry, low-fat cottage cheese, and tofu are also good options for weight loss.

Keep a Food Journal

Keeping a food journal is an effective way of losing weight. People who keep a daily food journal are known to lose weight more than those who don’t. If you want to keep one, you can record your daily food consumption on paper or electronically. A food journal usually includes a date, type of meal, time of eating, quantities consumed, and notes or feelings before or after every meal. Besides aiding weight loss, keeping a food journal encourages mindful eating, among other benefits.

Do Cardio

Cardiovascular activities include jogging, running, cycling, power walking, and hiking. Engaging in these exercises encourages weight loss because they can help you burn calories, reduce the buildup of dangerous belly fat around your organs, improve some risk factors for heart disease, and boost your mental and physical health.

Try Resistance Exercises

Try some resistance exercises such as push-ups, squats, bench press, resistance band, plank, biceps curl, deadlift, overhead press, lunge, leg press, row, leg extension, pull-down, bent-over row, lying triceps extensions, crunches, pull-up, lateral raise, leg curl, side lunge, push-down, upright row, overhead triceps extension, and plank row. Not only do they help reduce body fat, but they also boost metabolism, increase bone density, build muscle mass, increase self-esteem, and reduce the risk of sports injuries, as well as improve balance, muscle strength, endurance, and mental health.

 Without mincing words, avoiding refined carbohydrates, eating more protein, keeping a food journal, doing cardio, and trying resistance exercises are some of the best tips on how to reduce body weight naturally.

How BeLite Can Help

Established in 1995, BeLite Medical Center uses appetite suppressant medications together with exercise and a healthy diet to help patients improve their health by losing weight.

BeLite is a Virginia weight loss center with expertise and excellent reputation in helping patients from Virginia and other areas such as Richmond, Warrenton and Winchester as well as Maryland, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania and West Virginia lose weight fast.

Schedule an appointment with BeLite’s specialized medical practitioners to begin a healthy weight loss program now. We accept patients with health issues in addition to patients who are healthy and overweight. Online scheduling is available 24/7 at www.belite.com. For more information or enquiries, visit BeLite Medical Center at 3923 Old Lee Highway #61A Fairfax, Virginia 22030, call  (703) 359-9200, or email belitemed@gmail.com.

What Does a Medical Weight Loss Clinic Do?
2Mar

“What does a medical weight loss clinic do?” They provide medical assistance to people who need to lose weight. Doctors and nurses always go to medical weight loss clinics, they know this is where they can receive real medical assistance while being medically monitored. Going to a medical weight loss clinic helps people who are unable to lose the weight they need to lose on their own. If you have been trying to lose weight, and it is not working well, a medical weight loss clinic can help.

A medical weight loss center, or clinic, helps you lose weight by decreasing hunger and cravings. They prescribe pharmaceutical grade prescription medications, which have been proven to help people lose weight. In addition to controlling your hunger and cravings, they also provide nutrition counselling which matches your food preferences (they do not tell you to just eat salads) and they also suggest fun exercises which most people do not normally consider.

Medical weight loss clinics accept patients with a wide range of health problems, as well as people who are heathy and overweight. Our medical practitioners are specialists, so they can help you begin a healthy weight loss program. Many weight loss programs provide encouragement, some provide vitamin shots, and these work for healthy people who need to lose a few pounds. But if you need to lose more than a few pounds, even a lot more, only medical weight loss clinics can provide the medical assistance you need to be successful.

There are a huge range of prescription medications available to help you lose weight and different ones can be taken by people with different health issues. Whether you have any health issues or you’re healthy but overweight, a medical weight loss clinic will provide a personal medical assessment and utilize a personal treatment plan which will be effective for you.

Functions of a Weight Loss Clinic

Wondering, “What does a weight loss clinic do?” Here it is:

Examines You

In your first consultation, a medical assessment will review your health issues such as high blood pressure, diabetes, weight gain/weight loss history, thyroid issues, polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), mobility issues and many others which may be contributing to your weight gain. Your current weight, height, and body mass index (BMI) will be measured. A rhythm strip EKG will be performed, and you will be given a thyroid prescription to have your thyroid levels checked if they have not been done in the last 6 months. We have found people who developed thyroid problems during pregnancy, which heavily contributed to their inability to lose the baby weight after they gave birth. A medical weight loss clinic not only gives you powerful tools to help you lose weight, they provide maintenance programs to make sure you do not gain it back. A medical weight loss clinic will also look at the goals you intend to achieve with your weight loss efforts and other health improvements you would like to see in your life.

Recommends a Treatment Plan

Your weight loss clinic will then use the information you supplied to determine the best weight loss options for you. This may include diet, exercise, a lifestyle program, medication, and surgery.

Lifestyle change – not Diet

We do not suggest people diet, drink their meals, eat mostly lettuce, fast, or eat only once a day. People who eat once per day are usually much larger than people who eat three meals per day. We review what people eat and drink and suggest lower calorie options as substitutions. There are low calorie substitutions which satisfy ice cream cravings or salt cravings that are healthy and good for you. Nutrition counsellors can help you obtain more variation in your diet and can suggest lower calorie substitutions which you will like.

Exercise

Exercise is an important part of a weight loss treatment plan. A good medical weight loss clinic will prescribe an exercise program that is right for you, including the types of exercises you enjoy. If you enjoy walking, we suggest larger people go to tracks or parks to walk. When larger people walk on public roads, people yell insults at them when they drive by and it is humiliating. It does not matter if you are male or female or what neighborhood you live in, it happens everywhere.

Lifestyle Program

A lifestyle program should be part of your treatment plan. If you are younger, and could use some more friends, join a kick ball league. They are very social and you only need to run short distances. Kickball is a way to meet friends, exercise and develop a social circle. Plus, you commit to doing it every week when you join the league. If you like dancing, many fire houses have line dancing once per week, which is fun, great exercise and is a good way to meet (active) people from your area. Have a customer service job you hate, kick boxing really helps. Knowing you can punch and kick something after work helps you feel better. Doing it gets rid of your stress and you will get a rocking body in the process. You should check with your doctor before beginning any exercise program. If you are injured, you should follow your treating physician’s instructions.

Surgery

Your weight loss clinic will assess if bariatric surgery is right for you. Bariatric surgery, weight loss surgery, or metabolic surgery is used for the treatment of obesity and weight problems. Many of the new injectable medications result in major weight loss. Many people do not need surgery after using them. A treatment plan isn’t a “one size fits all,” but it all depends on your lifestyle, existing health conditions, and preferences and can be evaluated from time to time. If your progress stalls, we can add in other medications to break the dreaded plateaus. With this, we hope you have found the right answer to your question, “What does a medical weight loss clinic do?” Isn’t it?

How BeLite Can Help

BeLite Medical Center uses appetite suppressant medications together with exercise and healthy food substitutions to help patients improve their health and lose weight. Many also improve their social lives as well with our unusual exercise suggestions. Most of our staff have experienced weight problems, so they are not judgemental.

BeLite is a Virginia medical weight loss center, where many overweight doctors and nurses go for help with losing weight. They in turn refer their overweight patients to us so we can also help them. Our expertise and excellent reputation helping patients from Virginia and other areas, such as Richmond, Warrenton, and Winchester, as well as Maryland, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, lose weight fast.

Schedule an appointment with BeLite’s specialized medical practitioners to begin a healthy weight loss program now. We accept patients with health issues in addition to those who are healthy and overweight. Online scheduling is available 24/7 at www.belite.com. For more information or inquiries, visit BeLite Medical Center at 3923 Old Lee Highway #61A, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, or call 703) 359-9200, or email belitemed@gmail.com.

Winter Weight Loss Tips
20Jan

The unusually cold winter weather is a deterrent for some people interested in going outside. The colder it is, the less people want to bundle up to go outside. Instead, they would rather stay indoors where it is warm. Going outside in the cold boosts your metabolism. Because we need to keep our bodies at around 98 degrees Fahrenheit, being in a cold environment makes us burn more calories to maintain our body heat.

Top 5 Winter Weight Loss Tips
Here are the top five winter weight loss tips you should try out if you’re interested in losing weight during the winter:

Get Enough Sleep

We usually have shorter days and longer nights during the winter. So, take advantage of this natural phenomenon to get enough sleep, especially if you don’t sleep eight hours during other seasons. Lack of sleep slows down metabolism and increases the level of cortisol, a stress hormone produced and released by the adrenal glands

Eat Homemade Snacks

Avoid the intake of processed snacks such as chips and crackers when you’re hungry during the winter. Instead, go for homemade snacks, as they’re healthier. Fruits such as blueberries, raspberries and apples are complex carbohydrates, they help reduce your sugar cravings. Metabolism speeds up to keep your body warm when you are outside in cold weather, we burn more calories during activity and rest in cold weather.

Stay Hydrated

You don’t really feel like drinking water during the winter because of the cold weather, right? You’re not alone. You don’t feel like you need to drink water in cold weather, even when you’re a bit dehydrated. This is because your body is often fooled into thinking that it’s well hydrated. If you allow the dehydration to continue, your body tissues may begin to dry out, prompting you to take more comfort food. You therefore need to drink plenty of water—between eight and 10 cups daily—to help you stay hydrated and burn fat and calories. Take warm water if you can, as it helps remove toxins from the body.

Get Moving Outside

Everyone needs sun, exposure to the sun will help you gain enough vitamin D, which helps you lose weight. Walking helps you stay warmer, improves your physical fitness and your mood. Leave your comfort zone and take a walk in the sun and enjoy the outdoors, even in the cold. Make walking a habit; get moving, you will feel better physically and mentally.

Do Yoga and Meditation

Yoga and meditation are great for shedding some extra pounds. Embrace them. They’ll help you overcome seasonal affective disorders, sleep better, and control your eating choices. Nonetheless, some yoga poses are better than others at helping you achieve your weight loss goals.

So, try the following winter weight loss tips if you want to lose weight during the season: Get enough sleep; eat homemade snacks; stay hydrated; walk in the sun; and do yoga and meditation.

How BeLite Can Help

BeLite uses powerful prescription medications to help patients lose significant amounts of weight. We also have maintenance programs for patients who need help maintaining their weight. We do not sell food in a bag, herbs, or other fake weight loss gimmicks. Eating food in a bag is not sustainable long term, it is important to learn to eat normal food . We have no contracts, no upfront fees or membership fees, you come when you want to come and stop coming when you want to stop, without any financial penalty.

We accept people with major health problems in addition to those who are healthy and overweight. Our medical director researched weight loss medications at NIH and published his findings in peer reviewed medical journals, not magazines. In addition to his medical degree, he has a PhD in Pharmacology, which means he is excellent with medication interactions. Go where your doctor goes to lose weight and have the same success.

BeLite opened in 1995 and we have provided medically assisted weight loss to NOVA patients, Maryland patients and Washington DC patients for many years. Reach your weight loss goals, make an appointment 24/7 @ www.belite.com. We do not treat children and we do not perform weight loss surgery. Look at our before and after photos, our patients lost all of their weight without surgery.

For more information, please visit our website at www.belite.com or call us at 703 359-9200. You may also send us a text @ (571) 418-3370‬ or an email @ belitemed@gmail.com.

How to Approach New Year’s Resolutions
1Jan

A New Year’s resolution is a firm decision people often make on New Year’s Eve or New Year’s Day to do something or refrain from doing something in the coming year. They may resolve to exercise more, lose weight, get organized, learn a new skill or hobby, live life to the fullest, save more money or spend less, quit smoking or drinking, spend more time with family and friends, travel more, or read more.

Oftentimes, people make these resolutions because they want to change a particular behavior or trait, accomplish a personal goal, or improve their health in the new year. Sadly, some people who make New Year’s resolutions fail to meet their dreams and aspirations for the new year.

Tips on How to Approach New Year’s Resolutions

Here are the top five tips on how to approach New Year’s resolutions and get the most out of them:

Mentally Prepare for Change

It’s usually not easy to break a habit, especially one that has been developed over time and is deeply ingrained. So, it’s better for you to prepare for the new change that is to come as you try to accomplish the new set goals.

Set Motivational Goals

Have you ever tried to do something you were not motivated to do? It’s often quite challenging to make yourself do it. The same thing applies to setting goals. Set goals you are motivated to accomplish and try to accomplish them in a fun way. If seeing family is difficult, try to combine it with something you enjoy such as watching a movie together. Your goals must align with your priorities, dreams, and aspirations for them to be achievable.

Be Specific

It’s nice to be specific when setting goals for the new year because the more specific you are, the higher the chances of achieving your goals. For example, you may say you would like to reduce your weight by 10% in the coming year instead of setting a 100% target.

Limit Goals

Limit your goals to a manageable amount, do not try to change everything at once. Otherwise, you’ll find it overwhelming and give up if you try to accomplish too many things at once. Prioritize your goals and focus on the ones that matter most first, instead of trying to realize all of them and then achieving none.

Break up Goals

Remember that Rome was not built in a day. So, break up bigger goals into smaller chunks to make them more achievable. For example, aiming to lose weight in the new year is good, but planning how to do it is even better. So, to achieve your weight loss goal, you begin by increasing water intake. If you are tired, drinking a glass of water can hydrate you and give you more energy. After the water, you can walk for ten minutes and feel more awake and refreshed. Doing an hour workout can be difficult to schedule for some people, ten minute walks, or going up and down the stairs a few times are more easily achievable. The walks can be refreshing and the number of steps add up. Add fun workouts where possible, there are many videos you can watch online if it is to cold outside. People with small children find video game workouts, which you can play together with your kids, work best. This increase family time and fitness. Nintendo switch has Zumba, Just Dance and Fitness Boxing which are fun to do together.

 

New Year’s resolutions are easier said than done, but your dreams and aspirations for the new year are achievable if you follow these simple tips on how to approach New Year’s resolutions: mentally prepare for change, set motivational goals, be specific, limit goals, and break up larger goals into smaller, hopefully fun pieces.

How BeLite Can Help

Is weight loss one of your New Year’s resolutions? BeLite can help!

BeLite is a physician run, state-of-the art weight loss center, which uses medications and medical advances to combat genetics, hormones, and set points so adults can lose weight and maintain it. Gaining and losing weight repeatedly adversely impacts your metabolism.

BeLite accepts healthy adults and adults with health issues. We have many doctors, nurses and other medical personnel as patients. Our medical director, Richard Rothman M.D., PhD, researched weight loss medications while a Section Chief at NIH. He established BeLite, a medically oriented weight loss practice, in 1995. New medications, improved medication management and new study results, help people lose substantial weight and maintain it. Online scheduling from our BeLite webpage 24/7 @ www.belite.com, email belitemed@gmail.com or call 703 359-9200.

How to Lose Weight During the Holidays
15Dec

Weight gain, especially during the holidays, is common among adults because people tend to eat more, stay inactive, and consume more calories during such seasons. Unfortunately, most people don’t lose this extra weight after the holidays, and this can be quite a nightmare for them. However, all hope is not lost, as there are a few simple things you can do to help control your weight during the holiday season.

Top 5 Tips on How to Lose Weight During the Holidays

Here are the top five tips on how to lose weight during the holidays: 

Stay Active

Stay active with family and friends during the holiday season and avoid a sedentary lifestyle. Don’t sit on the couch to watch television all day long because a lack of physical activity can help you gain weight, especially if you overeat as well. Instead, prioritize physical activities like taking a family walk to help get your mind off food and increase your bond with your loved ones. If you can, sign up for a workplace fitness event or at a public fitness center in order to stay active during the holidays.

Control Your Stress Levels

You may find it difficult to keep up with the demands of the holidays due to the unusually high levels of stress associated with such seasons. This can increase your levels of cortisol, cause you to eat more, and contribute to weight gain. Apart from this, stress can also increase your cravings for junk food. Fortunately, you can control your stress levels and prevent weight gain during the holidays if you practice deep breathing, exercise, meditation, and yoga.

Embrace Protein

Holiday meals typically contain more carbohydrates than proteins. So, it’s good that you embrace protein and incorporate it into every meal during the holiday season to help reduce hunger and appetite, promote fullness, improve metabolism, and maintain weight. Beans, fish, meat, poultry, and quinoa are some good sources of protein you should try to include in your holiday meals.

Practice Mindful Eating

Although you may be tempted to multitask while eating and rush your meals during the holiday season, resist such a temptation and focus only on your meals. Eat mindfully, try to chew slowly and thoroughly, and avoid distractions. Otherwise, you’ll likely overeat while being distracted. If possible, take a few deep breaths before you start eating to help you relax and focus your attention solely on your plate.

Get Plenty of Sleep

It’s common for people to deprive themselves of sleep during the holidays. This can make them hungrier, consume more calories, engage in fewer exercises, and even affect their metabolism. So, it’s advisable to get enough sleep during the holidays if you can. 

In a nutshell, these are a few tips on how to lose weight during the holidays: stay active, control your stress levels, embrace protein, practice mindful eating, and get plenty of sleep.

How BeLite Can Help

Established in 1995, BeLite Medical Center uses appetite suppressant medications together with exercise and a healthy diet to help patients improve their health by losing weight.

BeLite is a Virginia weight loss center with expertise and excellent reputation in helping patients from Virginia and other areas such as Richmond, Warrenton and Winchester as well as Maryland, Washington D.C., Pennsylvania and West Virginia lose weight fast.

Schedule an appointment with BeLite’s specialized medical practitioners to begin a healthy weight loss program now. We accept patients with health issues in addition to patients who are healthy and overweight. Online scheduling is available 24/7 at www.belite.com. For more information or enquiries, visit BeLite Medical Center at 3923 Old Lee Highway #61A Fairfax, Virginia 22030, call (703) 359-9200, or email belitemed@gmail.com.

BeLite Medical
12Dec

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