Healthy Diet
One of the main causes of obesity is the imbalance between energy consumption and energy expenditure (Webb et al., 2017). Therefore, diet, as the primary way of receiving energy is to be addressed first. One of the most effective interventions is a prescription of a personalized diet, as it considers the individual characteristics of a person (An et al., 2019). For the patient to be able to follow the prescribed personalized diet, he is to be educated of its importance, and he is to be checked for compliance regularly. A one-week period compliance check may be optimal in that case. As personalized diet interventions with constant compliance checks proved to be effective before, the current patient is also expected to achieve significant results in terms of weight loss.
Exercise
Exercises directly affect the energy consumption levels of a patient. While it is confirmed that the impact of exercise on weight loss is less than the impact of diet, they are still necessary to fix the positive results of diet (Villareal et al., 2011). Therefore, the patient is not expected to lose weight due to his exercise program solely, but he is expected to improve and maintain his dietary results.
Patient Education
Finally, patient education may play the most critical role in the whole intervention process. A patient’s compliance with diet and exercise rules depends highly on the patient’s understanding of the issues of obesity and possible outcomes of the featured interventions (Albano et al., 2012). Therefore, firstly patient’s knowledge of the obesity issues should be assessed. Secondly, an educational program that fills patient’s gaps in knowledge should be designed; the program should focus on the nature of obesity and its possible health outcomes. Finally, the patient should be taught about the possible interventions, expected results, and the effects of the patient’s behavior and compliance with the program on these outcomes. In that case, it is possible to expect that both previous interventions will work efficiently as well, and together, they will improve the patient’s health significantly.
References
Albano, M.G., Golay, A., De Andrade, V., Crozet, C., d’Ivernois, J.F. (2012). Therapeutic patient education in obesity: analysis of the 2005–2010 literature. Therapeutic Patient Education, 4(2), 101-110. Web.
An, J., Yoon, S.R., Lee, J.H., Kim, H., Kim, O.Y. (2019). Importance of adherence to personalized diet intervention in obesity related metabolic improvement in overweight and obese Korean adults. Clinical Nutrition Research, 8(3), 171-183. Web.
Villareal, D.T., Chode, S., Parimi, N., Sinacore, D.R., Hilton, T., Villareal, R.A., Napoli, N., Qualls, C., Shas, K. (2011). Weight loss, exercise, or both and physical function in obese older adults. New England Journal of Medicine, 364(13), 1218-1229. Web.
Webb, V.L., Phil, M., Wadden, T.A. (2017). Intensive lifestyle intervention for obesity: Principles, practices, and results. Gastroenterology, 152(7), 1752-1764. Web.