Whether you have tried to lose weight on your own or with the help of a weight-loss program, the focus is too often on severely restrictive diets and unrealistic goals, nutrition experts say.

Keeping extra weight off requires effort and commitment, just as losing weight does.

Most people who have metabolic syndrome have insulin resistance. This may be a beginning of the development of type 2 diabetes.

Emotional eating affects most everyone from time to time, but regularly letting your feelings guide your food intake can affect your health.

Gastric bypass surgery involves bypassing a part of the small intestine that absorbs nutrients. For this reason, these surgeries are referred to as malabsorptive procedures.

Gastric stapling surgery is a type of weight loss surgery that limits the amount of food a person can eat.

Medical treatment can help with weight loss if your own efforts are unsuccessful—or if you have a medical condition that makes it crucial to lose weight.

Whatever treatment plan a person follows, losing weight slowly will be more effective and healthy over the long term.

Emotional eating affects most everyone from time to time, but regularly letting your feelings guide your food intake can affect your health.