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Treatments for People Living with Obesity

Treatment Options
Effective treatment options are available for people living with obesity. Guidelines recommend lifestyle modifications (diet change and exercise), pharmacotherapy, and bariatric surgery based on a patient’s body mass index, the presence of obesity-related complications, and target weight loss.11,12

Why Diet and Exercise Don’t Always Work
Lifestyle modification underpins all successful weight loss.11 For many people, lifestyle modification alone is unsuccessful because of genetics, environment, or normal compensatory physiologic drivers of weight regain after weight loss that increase appetite, reduce satiety, and slow down metabolism.7-9 Why is Weight Loss so Hard to Maintain? Download this information sheet to discuss with your patients or visit our Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery page to learn how surgery could help your patients.