Thursday, November 27th, 2008...6:21 pm

Are Emotions affecting your Weight

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I watched a television show about a program for morbidly obese children and teenagers who were on the brink of medical crisis. Many were told that if they didn’t loose the weight they would die.

Although this special program stressed the use of rigid dieting, exercise and cognitive therapy, to my surprise the host repeatedly stressed that the primary requirement to achieve weight loss and save their lives was the successful resolution of their emotional issues, as they alone were the cause of the weight problems.

After discussing his thoughts and problems with a counselor for 5 months, one particular child was finally able to tell his parents that their expectations made him feel like a failure. Doing so didn’t resolve this issue but instead served to ostracize his parents by making them feel guilty.

As obesity and weight loss are not areas I specialized in, this is the first time I have become aware of the scientific correlation between emotional distress and weight issues

Of course my brain started ticking over as it usually does, and what I came up with is how dysfunctional our commonly prescribed treatment for weight loss is. Bear with me while I explain, and please let me know what you think.

Logically it makes sense that we use food as emotional comfort for various reasons. The chemical reactions trigger specific hormones that make us feel good and our stomachs feel full and comfortable just like we enjoyed as babies.

But then we are told to diet and restrict our food intake, so we take away everything that tastes and makes us feel good and replace them with bland, unappetizing items. Then we add more pressure by blaming ourselves if we find it difficult to diet, crave something sweet, or don’t loose the weight quickly enough. The dieting game is a very cruel one emotionally.

And we make it worse by focusing on our weight and diet issues 24/7, which actually triggers the emotional issues, then either do nothing to solve them, or spend months and months discussing one issue with a therapist which doesn’t resolve it.

If it is our emotional state that dictates our weight issues, then how is it possible to alleviate our emotional issues by doing physical things, and adding extra emotional stress and demands on us? How can anyone loose weight without permanently resolving their emotional scars?

No wonder people feel defeated and give up!
 

I find it very difficult to watch the needless suffering people undergo with topics like this because…
 

The issue that child spent 5 whole months (approx 150 hours) thinking about over and over in his mind without finalizing
 

CAN BE resolved and permanently eliminated in just 30 minutes.

 
So I am telling you here and now. Don’t spend days or months or even years stressing over an emotional issue. Do the Greene’s Release Program for less than $20 and permanently resolve the emotional issues that cause your weight problem!
 

“Oh My! They were wrong! After beating myself up for 30 years I’ve just realized there is nothing wrong with me after all. I can’t stop smiling.” Frank
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