There are several reasons that justify having a wellness weight loss coach👩‍🏫, but here are 2 big reasons:

• Do you take💊 medications that are causing weight gain?
• Do you have 🤨medical conditions that hinder your weight loss?

 These issues to a wellness/weight loss coach are a challenge that they love to embrace. A wellness coach will research and help you to pinpoint medication or a medical condition that  might hinder you from losing weight.

Working with several clients lately has brought these issues to my attention, only because, we have had to deal with several of these medications and health conditions.

Several conditions can cause weight gain or hinder weight loss, says Rebecca Kurth, MD, director of PrimeCare at Columbia-Presbyterian Eastside.

Among them, Kurth says, are:

Chronic Stress

Cushing’s syndrome.

Hypothyroidism.

Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS)

Syndrome X.

Depression.

Hormonal changes in women

Medications can also cause you to gain weight, or keep you from losing it, says Ken Fujioka, MD, medical director of the Scripps Clinic Nutrition and Metabolism Research Center in San Diego.

Among the medications that may cause weight gain in some people are:

• Medications to treat type 2 diabetes (such as sulfonylureas)
• Antipsychotic or schizophrenia medications,  chlorpromazine (such as Thorazine), thioridazine (Mellaril), and olanzapine (Zyprexa)
• Beta-blockers (prescribed for high blood pressure, and some heart conditions)
• Antidepressants such as amitriptyline (Elavil), imipramine (Norpramin), or trazodone (Desyrel)
• Hormone replacement therapy
• Birth control pills
• Corticosteroids taken for conditions like asthma and lupus
• Antiepileptics taken to control seizures, especially valproic acid (Depakene or Depakote) and carbamazepine (such as Tegretol)

No matter what your medical condition is, if it’s causing you to gain weight a Wellness Coach will help you pinpoint the problem. This way you can get with your doctor on your medications or help to resolve the food situation,