Many of us suffer from eating too much, which eventually lead to a state of obesity. Is this eating disorder, or addiction to eating? And how can the psychological factor that helps more than regular diets in obesity and treated?
Many of us suffer from binge eating, which leads eventually to the case of obesity. Is this the case of compulsive eating , or addiction to eating? And how psychotherapy can help more than regular diets to deal with obesity and treated?
For many of us, the obesity is a known problem for many years, we have learned to live and adapt to them. We have already tried a lot of diets, but to no avail, and in a certain stage we came to the conclusion that perhaps we will have to live with obesity. Most people do not know, of course, he can eliminate obesity and treated by short-term and effective psychotherapy.
There are different types of overeating, which causes obesity:
1. eating disorder (Binge Eating Disorder): expressed by greedily eating that appear from time to time, during which eat a large amount of food in a short time (less than two hours), and there is usually a sense of control overeating, without the existence of any behavior to compensate him, such as: vomiting, diarrhea, excessive exercise or fasting. Usually this will be a way to deal with feelings, and is thus a kind of sensory eating.
2. eating sensuous without gluttony: Is the pattern of behavior, which tends people who suffer from it to resort to eating as they arise strong feelings and their midst. Feelings can be negative or positive. In other words, a person can feel the pressure or anxiety and go to eat something to calm himself, and similarly, when it gets a good sign in the exam, go to eat something, so it will be easier for him to absorb the joy that submerge. In this case look for food moderator, organizer of the feelings and comfortable, and usually do not have these people and other effective means to regulate emotion.
3. eating habits "bad" - often people who are obese, they have unhealthy eating habits. For example, they are accustomed to eating fat, larger quantities of the quantities that they need in order to satisfy their, and eat even when they are not hungry. In addition, they have difficulty controlling impulses related to eating, ie when they have the desire to eat food creamy or unhealthy, they usually succumb to this desire, nor restrict themselves. Some people have a problem in controlling desires also in other areas, and this is reflected in impulsive behavior and in the "work without thinking." For this kind of hyper-addictive nature of eating there, by thinking "that he must now get the" what we want to do!
4. people who suffer from obesity may suffer from all kinds of overeating, or only some of them.
Why diets usually fail in reducing obesity? The reason is that the diet focuses on rapid weight cut, and not to change eating habits permanently. Moreover, food Vahumaih not change eating habits of thinking related to, or dealing with the emotions associated with food. Solve the problem of obesity and treatment, there is a need for all these components, and other components, such as changing life habits in general, to reduce the preoccupation with food and behavior change around him. This may sound strange, but psychotherapy can certainly help overcome obesity and bad eating habits.
Obesity and psychological treatment, can you help?
It is cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), known therapy that helps people to change habits, and so the solution of behavioral problems. It also helps regulate emotions in therapy and change thought patterns dilemma, which prevent us from moving forward and achieving goals. In obesity and treatment is very effective to use several techniques, and it can certainly persevere to become thin and live a more healthy life and permanently:
1. Recording Diary eating: eating in the diary are usually record everything that we eat during the day, in addition to the time, what we did before eating, the extent of hunger, as well as the thoughts and feelings that unpleasantly about food. Recording Diary eating serve several important purposes: First, we become aware of everything we eat, without ignoring the snacks, Anakarc quantities or unwanted. Stop eating the process of being carried out automatically, without thinking. Recording diary, in fact, it makes us think about what we eat, because everything enters the mouth, also recorded in the diary. In addition, we become familiar with the reasons that made us eat junk food: what we thought and what we felt. In this way, the processor can be determined thoughts and feelings dilemma and address, as well as pay attention behaviors and unwanted that encourage eating too much.
2. Change the environment: the processor determines the patient's problematic behaviors, which contribute to eating too much, and guided in how to change them. For example, the presence of unwanted foods at home, eating directly from the cooking pots instead of the dish, not to work in everyday life, which leads to boredom, leads to eating too much, and other behaviors that can be changed.
3. Emotional regulation: if the processor person uses food as a tool to deal with the feelings, The wizard knows other ways to cope. For example, can be dealt with emotions by doing activities regulate emotions, or through attention to the feeling, accepted and mitigation, and try to control sternness through various means such as: writing, meditation, relaxation and other exercises.
4. Encouragement: It is very important to give encouragement every time the processor succeeds proper eating for a few days or even one day.Encouragement can have everything a person chooses the wizard, except for the food. Encouragement can even be words of encouragement that tells her therapist person to himself, or to tell her his wizard or the people around him.
