Psychological problems of weight: find and eliminate

The problem excess weight or its lack relevant during all times. Some people complain about exchange substances, sedentary image life, wrong nutrition and t.d. Reasons, by which problems overweight weight can you chase, very a lot. Exactly so for successful resolving this problem important to sort out in volume, what makes us there are and what prevents us from losing weight. Are Are such factors purely external and outside control us or same everything-still worth digging deeper and all-still search psychological problems weight in self in head? So, let's get started Food provides our existence, like air and water. People eat to get enough, to provide their body with the necessary substances and to survive, to satisfy the natural physiological need. But in addition to the need for food, we have at least 4 more leading needs: the need for security, the need for love and belonging, for self-respect and recognition, the need for self-actualization. And if the physiological needs of our time are easy enough to satisfy, then others often remain out of work. And then there is a feeling of hunger. But we have forgotten how to listen to ourselves so much that we confuse physiological hunger with emotional.

Food = way out?

Often we have anxiety or arousal of unknown origin, which is extremely difficult to deal with. And then some start drinking, others – smoke, and still others – there is. But if the first two habits have already begun to be condemned by public opinion and called addictions, then the third habit is even supported by our Slavic food traditions with their borscht, donuts and dumplings.

From childhood, we are instilled with the habit of eating our problems and difficulties. And the negative passes, hides for a while, and then rolls with renewed vigor, and we seize again, and so on in a circle. The problem does not go away, it is not solved. Anxiety can be based on internal uncertainty, and loneliness, and fears, and resentment, and unexpressed anger, and dissatisfaction with relationships with significant others, etc. And we just do not know how to withstand mental stress, how to deal with it in a different way, without seizing.

Food can also solve other problems. For example, when we are constantly used, but we cannot say "no", and at the same time we do not want to do what is asked. We feel irritated, but we cannot openly express our dissatisfaction, we constantly care about others, leaving no time for ourselves, etc. Then the only possible way out can be the "fat layer around ourselves", which, at least somehow protects us from violating our boundaries, allows us to save a part of ourselves for ourselves, and not for others.

As it has already become clear, laziness, diets and willpower will not help solve problems with weight. Only by discovering the true cause, the true "hunger" and having satisfied it, it will be possible to come to harmony with your weight without diets and violence against yourself.

Unfortunately, there is no single and universal advice here, since each person has his own unsatisfied need, the solution of which must be approached individually. Here an experienced psychotherapist will come to the rescue, who together with you will analyze the whole situation, find another, more effective way of interacting with yourself and the world. Yes, this is a long and painstaking psychological work, but the result is worth it. After all, you want to please yourself and others! Good luck, the way to yourself and harmonious weight!