The purpose of diet herbal medicine is not to forcibly suppress your appetite, but to reduce excessive hunger and cravings for binge eating, and to normalize your body's rhythm.

Therefore, in most cases, rather than feeling no hunger at all while taking the medicine, you may feel that your desire for snacks decreases and your food intake is naturally regulated.
Also, depending on your individual constitution or lifestyle patterns, your appetite may be lower for the first 2–3 days, but it is rare for your appetite to disappear to the point of hindering daily life or for your energy levels to drop significantly.

If you choose alcoholic beverages with low sugar content and control the amount while taking diet herbal medicine, you can enjoy drinking while minimizing negative effects.

- Recommended: Soju, whiskey, gin, vodka, etc.
Distilled spirits like soju or whiskey have very low sugar content. It is recommended to enjoy half a bottle of soju or two to three glasses of whiskey lightly and slowly.

- Not recommended: Beer, white wine, makgeolli, cocktails, etc.
Beer and makgeolli have high carbohydrate content and relatively high calories, making it easy to gain weight even without snacks, so it is best to avoid them while taking diet herbal medicine.

The appropriate time to take diet herbal medicine after childbirth varies by individual, but if there is no noticeable weight change 6 months after childbirth, you can gradually consider it.

From this point on, weight loss is not easy through natural recovery or diet control alone, and since postpartum weight gain often has different causes than pre-pregnancy weight,
a process of adjusting the prescription by considering body shape changes, breastfeeding status, and sleep patterns is necessary.

When you follow a low-sugar diet correctly while taking diet herbal medicine, insulin resistance improves, and the body begins to use stored fat as energy;
at this time, visceral fat is used first.

If a healthy diet is maintained, it is a natural progression for visceral fat, which structurally accompanies toxins, inflammatory substances, and heavy metals, to decrease first.

If the diet herbal medicine is formulated according to your constitution, taking it for more than 6 months will not cause problems.

However, rather than taking the same medicine continuously, it is safest to adjust the prescription every month based on your body's condition or switch to a maintenance or recovery stage diet herbal medicine depending on your weight loss status and duration.

Diet herbal medicine is not addictive or habit-forming, but if you maintain the initial weight loss prescription for a long time without periodic check-ups and prescription adjustments,
problems such as fatigue, decreased body temperature, and hormonal imbalances can occur, so we do not recommend taking it mechanically without blood tests or monitoring changes in your condition.

Although there are individual differences, generally, the first 1–2 weeks of taking diet herbal medicine can be seen as an initial stage where appetite patterns stabilize and you may feel lighter.
After that, from the 2nd to 4th week, a decrease in body fat mass is often confirmed by the numbers.

However, if metabolic function is severely impaired, the perceived rate of weight loss may be relatively slow, and since full-scale weight loss occurs smoothly from the moment the ketone engine, which 'uses fat as energy,' is activated, it is important to consistently continue taking the prescribed diet herbal medicine and managing your lifestyle habits.

From the perspective of Korean medicine, weight loss should not be viewed simply as reducing body weight, but as a process of restoring metabolic function and correcting the body's balance.

To this end, we prescribe diet herbal medicine that considers the individual's constitution and weak points to improve impaired metabolic function,
help with appetite control, circulation and edema improvement, and reduction of fat accumulation, which can be seen as a process of restoring my body to function properly again and becoming a 'body that can lose weight'.

During menopause, weight often increases easily due to hormonal changes, and symptoms such as abdominal obesity or edema frequently appear.

At Daeat Korean Medicine Clinic, we provide customized menopause diet prescriptions, including Hongdaitdan, a patented herbal medicine for alleviating menopausal symptoms using fermented Phellodendron bark,
which includes effects such as increased bone density, reduced abdominal fat, and inhibition of uterine atrophy.

In cases where growing children gain weight rapidly, it is often not just because they 'eat too much,' but is frequently related to increased insulin resistance or impaired metabolic function.

In particular, childhood obesity is important to manage early because the number of fat cells themselves increases, not just their size, which can make weight control very difficult in adulthood. Therefore,
weight loss for children and adolescents involves diet herbal medicine prescriptions and lifestyle coaching with the following functions:
1) Excessive appetite control 2) Improvement of insulin resistance 3) Inhibition of fat accumulation 4) Activation of basal metabolism 5) Weight management within a range that does not hinder growth and development.