“Gain quality of life” is the main motivation for people who want to lose weight.

Spain, February 2012. For most patients, gain in health and quality of life are the aspects that influence when looking for solutions to combat the overweight.

The main motivation to lose weight is gain quality of life ”, according to a consultation carried out among patients of one of the teams medical pioneers in the treatment of overweight in Spain.

Obesity therapies, medical team was the first team of medical professionals to introduce treatment with intragastric balloon in Spain more than 17 years ago, since then have made this technique with more than 1,360 patients who have gone through their consultation.

According to Dr. Turró, before undergoing treatment for weight loss, it is essential that patients have a primary motivation to help you during the process. When a patient comes to our consultation always there is some reason why has decided to find out and that often go well beyond the concept aesthetic ” lose weight or look better physically. In the majority of cases is to achieve an improvement in the quality of life; many patients are aware how it affects overweight in their day to day, feel with less energy to do things, more tired, not to mention problems associated with being overweight that the majority of patients endlösung or known as diabetes type 2, infertility problems, problems with joints, etc …

addition – adds Dr. Turró – many patients who come to our consultation decide to lose weight by medical indication and by problems related to health but over time this main motivation disappears and are necessary other motivations more with every day and the lifestyle that no health-relatedso that the patient carried out a change in their eating habits and continue with the effort to change his lifestyle.

This motivation is mainly from the time that patients begin to lose weight. In this first phase is when they notice that they are starting to feel better, less tired, more attractive, etc … then it is important to see and enumerate the list of motivations far more specific – how to do activities that previously did not, power wear clothes that previously did not use, to control the anxiety to eat etc..-that will help them to continue in the process to achieve weight loss and more importantly, its long-term maintenance ”.

Remarkable improvement of the physical and psychic state

In addition to losing weight, patients that have made the treatment of intragastric or have been subjected to a reduction in stomach surgery endoluminal, combined with psychological and nutritional support in both cases, have significantly improved their health condition in general from the physical point of view and associated diseases as well as from the mental point of view and psychological.

Such is the case of Santiago, which decided to take seriously the problem of overweight when they had to enter emergency for a heart problem, it was then when closely saw the danger and decided to combat obesity in final form. Today is one of the first patients operated in Spain using the technique of Endoluminal surgery.

The fourth month since the intervention has lost 19 pounds, however, and in his own words the physical change is very important, but the most important change has been on emotional level. I am much more active.I had always practised sport but could not lately because I tired it immediately, now every day I am going to the pool, you don’t have nothing to do I feel so much more active, more alive, more eager to do things, mentally is a very important change.

I have not had to make great efforts to stop eating with anxiety about my attitude to food.It is as if I had been a card ” different, i.e. I can ignore that feeling of anxiety that you had before because I just don’t have anything, I do not want. Used e.g. before treatment, after lunch or dinner to eat a whole chocolate bar, after the intervention I take as much, one bar of cereals but nothing more, and so on with all. The food is no longer an obsession for me and before which it was. Previously had a total food dependence, almost engullía ” now that anxiety has become a background ” says Santiago.

Obesity therapies medical team was the first team of medical professionals to introduce the intragastric balloon in Spain and for more than 17 years have made this technique with many patients who have reached an average weight loss of around 20-22 kg.

The same team also is a pioneer in Spain in the treatment of obesity by endoluminal surgery having carried out since the middle of last year more than 30 interventions in which in the fourth month after the intervention, patients have lost an average of 49.77% (about half) of the excess weight that hadweight loss average of 13.6 kg 2 months.

The aim of this unit is to combat a chronic disease has become one of the biggest problems today and that in the majority of cases is trigger for other diseases.