Average Weight Gain Over Christmas

With Christmas 2009 disappearing into the distance and normality setting back in, you may be looking for diets and exercise tips to shift those extra pounds you find you have gained over the festive season.

The extra choc, party nibbles, Christmas pud and mince pie here and there can actually amount to an extra 500 calories a day and result in a weight gain of around 5 -7lb in just the two week holiday period.

Losing weight, getting fitter and toning up the body for the long needed summer weather holds the number one position on the New Years resolution list each and every year – but do we ever succeed and what can we do about it? Are you thinking of Cosmetic Surgery or Weight Loss surgery?

Why Exercise and Diets Often Fail

Unfortunately, with all our good intentions, the best determination and even short and long term goals we may be set to fail before we even start!

Long term weight loss requires a committed lifestyle change and this is why diets often fail. Fad diets and short term calorie reduction can be short lived also result in people giving into temptation by rewarding themselves for small weight losses or even mass exercising, this inevitable turns out counterproductive to the diet plan and leave us feeling deflated, giving up and even reaching for the foods we know we shouldn’t eat.

With all this in mind many are turning to cosmetic surgery to make that life changing decision and to finally achieve their life long goal.

Some people find that, no matter how good their diet is or how much exercise they do, there are still some stubborn areas of fat that refuse to shift. If you are one of these people, liposuction could be the answer.

Weight loss Surgery

For people who are not excessively overweight but suffer from an overhang of skin around the abdomen then a tummy tuck is a cosmetic procedure that removes excess skin and fatty tissue in order to give a flatter appearance to the stomach.

Feeling the Benefits of Weight Loss Surgery

For those who are more overweight or obese, the Landauer Group provides expert weight loss surgery options for people who have been recommended to undergo weight loss surgery by their G.P. Research shows that on average, patients lose between 50-65% of their excess weight in the two years after placement of a lap band and between 66% and 75% of their excess weight in the two years after gastric bypass surgery.

You will, of course start to feel the benefits of weight loss surgery following the procedure, especially if you also have any co-morbidity related problems such as diabetes, heart disease or high blood pressure. You will also have a much greater capacity for physical exercise as well as more self confidence following a gastric bypass surgery procedure.