Weight Problems and Eating Related Issues:

A very common problem that is consulted for is obesity. Obesity and eating disorders are so prevalent that they are now viewed as a serious public health concern. Obesity and eating disorders are not caused by bad eating habits themselves, but by underlying emotional problems and anxiety. Obesity and eating disorders are only symptoms of deep seated bottled up emotions that are being expressed through overeating or restricting food. Hypnotherapy is a very effective tool for weight loss and emotional eating problems. 

One of the most common is Comfort eating.  In fact It is thought that comfort eating is one of the biggest and most common emotional eating patterns or disorders. Comfort eating is using food as an emotional comforter to compensate for unhappiness. Comfort eating can include binge eating, and generally eating or overeating to compensate when you feel stressed, anxious, bored, sad or lonely. In general you are using food as an emotional response to any dissatisfaction or unhappiness in your life.

Comfort eating often combines or ties in with yo yo dieting. Yo yo dieting is a continual cycle of losing and gaining body weight. This eating disorder can actually slow down your metabolism (metabolism being the way that your body burns food for energy in order to conserve energy). This often means that when you can no longer sustain your diet and you return to your normal eating habits, you then tend to rapidly gain back your initial weight. Not only do you gain back your initial weight, but because of a lowered metabolism you are likely to gain more weight than you originally started with. Each time you diet your body's metabolism becomes less efficient.

 

  

 

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