For many years people focused on losing weight by dieting. There are hundreds, if not thousands of weight loss programs around the world whose main focus is on what you eat and how you eat it. Yet, the mental health component of why people eat, was vastly ignored. Dealing only with the diet and ignoring all the fundamental aspects of why we eat, emotional eating and eating disorders, complicate the dieting process tremendously.
In the recent article published by Good Morning America, on January 8, 2021, titled, "I focused on my mental health and lost over 100 pounds", a woman from Scottsdale, Arizona explains as to why it wasn’t until she faced a vast array of emotional issues that were preventing her from losing weight. It’s so incredible when individuals such as this woman finally realize that exercising and diets alone don’t and won’t do the job of losing and maintaining weight loss.
This is a remarkable triumph, when someone finally archives such a tremendous goal, and she finally realized that one has to deal with the mental health aspects that are contributing to such unhealthy and dysfunctional behavior.
It wasn’t until she was able to make some very necessary lifestyle changes, along with processing irrational and dysfunctional behavior. Once conscious and subconscious changes are made, it begins the process of real mindfulness where one is now fully conscientious of its choices, decisions, and best of all, fully aware of the issues that were impeding the changes to take place.
Weight loss is more than just dieting, it’s about learning why we eat, when we eat, and how much we eat. It's about understanding our bodies and our mind. It’s about learning why we eat at the specific times we eat. It’s about emotional eating, anxiety eating, habitual eating, or even additive eating. There are many reasons why people experience difficulty in maintaining a healthy body weight. For some eating goes along with drugs, whereas for others, eating goes with depression or anxiety. Needless to say, it is imperative to seek a professional when dealing with weight loss. More often than not it takes a village of professionals, from medical doctors, to therapists, to nutritionists, and even physical trainers. However at the end of the road, what truly made a difference in your weight loss, it’s your mind.
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