Weight Loss Drug? Balance it with nutrition

Are you or someone you know on a weight loss drug? Let me park my views on whether you should be on a weight loss drug in the first place. 

If you are, you should pay heed to this article. Weight loss drugs help you lose weight. They do this by balancing energy metabolism. What you eat versus what you burn. 

They do not balance nutrients in your body. 

By definition, weight loss drugs are not designed to ensure completeness of nutrition. 

So how do you get all the nutrients that you need? By ensuring that having taken the drug, your meals are balanced. 

In fact, even the drug manufacturer would urge you to also focus on your nutrition. Of course, you can always add a ton of supplements. 

Focusing on home cooked food is a much better choice. 

Focusing on your meals ensures several things. First, that you are not undoing what ever it is that the drug is doing. That your weight loss, if it happens is not wasted. 

Next, that you are not deficient nutrients. Remember nutrient deficiency can both in the short and long term cause disease. 

Vitamin C deficiency causes scurvy in a few months. Copper deficiency lower immunity. 

So regardless whether the drug is doing its work or not, you still need to be meal focused. 

So what kind of meals should you be thinking about? 

I have said it and will say it again. Food cooked at home. Eaten as fresh as possible. Food that contains as much diversity as possible. Fruits, vegetables, lentils, fat, nuts, seeds. Fish, egg and chicken i

The more the diverse the better. 

Remember, I am not advocating taking weight loss drugs. I am only saying that if you have reached the decision to do so, what ever your reason, balance it with good nutrition. 

Your body needs nutrition as much as it needs to lose weight. 

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