There is new evidence to suggest that obesity, or being overweight, is more than just about diet and exercise. Studies show that if people are given the right motivation, the knowledge, with the focus not being on food, but on keeping weight down, that more people succeed with sustained weight loss than those who go on extreme diet foods for a short period of time.
This cognitive reasoning is about understanding why you eat the way you do. It's about recording and analysing your eating habits, in conjuction how you live each day. Emotions play a big role. Events that happen during your day need your action and reaction, and affect your mood and emotions (for example, worry, disappointment or anger), that in turn, affect your eating habits.
We all know women who go and buy two pairs of shoes by their favourite designer to combat stress at home or work. Others get their hair done. And others reach for chocolate and cream cakes.
If we can learn, by regularly recording our daily events and moods, to recognise the underlying cause of our behaviour, then we can learn recognise the connections between emotions and weight loss. We can learn how to affect changes before we get to the point where we simply have to reach for the cookie jar.
This type of weight loss plan takes time. It takes time and willingness to start keeping a record - a daily diary - of what's going on around you and within you. Then you need to analyze yourself.
Perhaps you can spot a trend of when you eat the most based on a mood or emotion you are feeling. You must reflect on the cause of this feeling.
Things such as learning to say no if you have a punishing schedule, learning to distance yourself from people who affect you negatively, and learning to cope with emotional stress by distancing yourself from a situation are vital to your emotional well-being.
To be a boss over your own life, to set your own boundaries and fulfill your own needs first and foremost, will give you power over yourself. Learn to control impulsives and replace negatives emotions with something positive. Learning these skills may mean that you will, in time, learn to manage your eating habits better. Having the right mind-set towards your goals should come before you start combining this with watching what's on your plate, weighing your portions and buying only diet foods.
Feeling, thoughts and behaviour patterns towards your weight could be the the key to why and what you reach for in the refridgerator.
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