Diet and Weight Loss Losing Weight

Weight Loss - The Battle to Lose

Summary & Participants

For many people, losing weight is a lifelong battle.

Medically Reviewed On: August 08, 2008

Webcast Transcript

KRYSTIN: I remember being a little bit of a chubby kid when I was about 8/9-years-old. It was always a problem. It was always an issue.

ANNOUNCER: For Krystin, losing weight has been a lifelong battle.

KRYSTIN: I have done acupuncture. I have done just general nutritional diets. I've done the south beach diet. I've done nutrisystem. I've done weight watchers. Walking, exercise, gyms, personal trainers -- pretty much everything and anything that I could get my hands on that looked interesting and new and made sense.

ANNOUNCER: And for each new thing there typically has been a stumbling block.

KRYSTIN: South Beach diet was just this past summer. I had a group of girls that I did it at work with. We were doing great. The holidays came up. Very, very difficult to follow through on something like that during the holiday season.

JANA KLAUER, MD, METABOLISM EXPERT: Diets often fail, or don't work in the long run, because the person doesn't see it as a life change.

ANNOUNCER: Doctor Jana Klauer specializes in helping people lose weight and keep it off.

JANA KLAUER, MD, METABOLISM EXPERT: It's a very complex question as to why obesity is such a problem, and I think there are many answers; environmental, metabolic factors, hereditary factors. But I think the overlying thing is that we're just exposed to so much food and so little exercise.

ANNOUNCER: Two thirds of American adults are overweight. Krystin is tired of being one of them.

KRYSTIN: Just to feel healthier, to have more energy to do something, that if at a moment's notice, somebody says, "come on, let's go do this." I can go do that and not feel I have to get in shape to go do that.

JANA KLAUER, MD, METABOLISM EXPERT: Weight and health are linked. It is very important that people see it that way, that they not see it just as a cosmetic issue because it is not. It is one of the things that determine your health.

ANNOUNCER: Thanks for joining us on today’s Once Daily.