![]() Weight loss should be sustainable and with realistic goals. Even 20lbs of body weight is a lot to lose and that’s probably not gonna happen in 1 month (without surgery), and quite honestly probably shouldn’t happen. It takes time to lose weight, especially significant and meaningful amounts. Again what are you going to do to help them now? They don’t need someone just repeating the obvious or fixating on something that’s a long term goal for what is a much shorter-term problem. Breathlessness? Lose weight.īut what are you gonna do for them right now or in the meantime until they lose weight? People need tenable and actionable solutions. Too often are obese individuals with various complaints also told to just lose weight. #PHYSICAL THERAPY PODCASTS FREE HOW TO#( If you’re interested in a thorough review of factors relating to obesity and how to best address them read our open-access paper published in Progress in Cardiovascular Disease.) Let’s also not forget that obese individuals do attempt to lose weight fairly often (and in increasing numbers) but many fail, close to 70% annually. I haven’t even touched on portion size (which people tend to underestimate), health literacy, medical misinformation in the media, stigma, childhood exposure to trauma, food deserts, knowledge of exercise, transportation to fitness facilities, income/cost of healthy living programs, access to healthcare, and eating habits such as eating while watching TV, etc. That’s only a handful of these other factors. They might also be raised by grandparents or single parents where there may be difficulty in getting them involved in sports or fitness (t his factor is controversial though).Individuals growing up with lower socioeconomic status have less access to green recreational places, and team sports.School programs for health/physical education and athletics have been cut.Our daily occupational physical activity has drastically changed over the past 50 years as we moved away from industrial jobs to commercial and office jobs.Our preferences for food are developed during childhood. ![]() Motivation is a factor to some degree but it’s much less than many of the other societal, environmental and psychological factors relating to obesity. However, we need to stop perpetuating this belief that a lack of motivation is a primary cause of obesity. It will always be better to be healthy and at a normal weight than healthy and obese. There are things that you can do to i mprove your health even while remaining obese. Many conditions that obese individuals experience could be improved if they lost some weight. It’s important that we are honest with our patients. “ If you lost some weight you’d have less back/knee/hip pain.” □ WANT TO LEARN MORE? Head over to and sign up for the newsletter.“ Obese people just need to be motivated.” ![]() Want to support me? Head over to, click on Programs and sign up for the FPF "Insiders" Online Library where you can ask questions I'll answer for future episodes! #PHYSICAL THERAPY PODCASTS FREE FREE#Welcome to the Fitness Pain Free Show! This is where we help coaches and physical therapists like YOU get your patients out of pain back to training In today's episode we go over Physical Therapy Treatment For Radicular Lower Back Pain | Disc Bulge, Herniation, Sciatica:įPF Mini Course with "7 Reasons Why People Get Hurt in the Gym and What to do About It.".
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