Many people say that they have
tried everything to lose weight, but often obesity is a symptom of something
else, something in the mind. Trauma,
depression, anxiety, abuse, and grief are just a few of the many psychological
disorders that could lead to obesity. Yet
few people have thought to help their mind help their body. They try to treat symptoms without attacking
the source of the problem. They work and
work on their body, but the unhealed mind is underneath the visible problems. They wonder why nothing helps get their body better
when they never try to attack the cause of their obesity – their mind. Few people have tried therapy. The reason for their weight gain may not be
in their body but in the body’s brain, yet they never try to treat that pink
thing in their head.
There is one thing that can improve
your chance of success more than anything else in your weight loss goals: It’s
sitting down and talking to a therapist.
A therapist can help to find and address the possible reasons for
overeating. They can help discover
motivation to succeed and help to remove mental roadblocks that detoured them
toward dead-ends in the past.
Therapy can actually help you lose more weight. Attacking a problem from all sides improves
your chance of success. Some people try
to lose weight only by diet, others only by exercise. Yes you can succeed but it is a lot
harder. Those who are most likely to
succeed in their weight goals attack the problem from every angle they can, including
their mind.
