The goal of any course of treatment should be focused on weight management rather than simply weight loss. Weight management must concentrate on attainable and maintainable goals, which may be limited to stopping weight gain, stabilizing weight, or even achieving a series of small weight losses. Treatment should emphasize a woman's overall health, which is being threatened by obesity. Replacing the health risks of obesity with another set of health risks that might accompany treatment makes little sense. As I mentioned above, dietary changes are unavoidable.
Pharmacological treatment is effective but limited in several important ways.
There is also the risk of over-dependence on drugs, leading a woman to relax her dietary changes. Most importantly, it is extremely difficult to maintain weight loss after discontinuing drugs. Because treating obesity is difficult, and very often frustrating for the person suffering from obesity, some women consider the option of surgical treatment. There are three types of surgery used to treat obesity. Food enters this smaller stomach normally, but is released more slowly, and piece meal, through a small opening at the base of this false stomach.