You have been going to dietitians for years, you never give up on diets without trying them, but the moment you stop dieting, do you gain back all the weight you lost? Any system based on fear, blame and strict prohibitions does not produce good results, because what is prohibited begins to appeal to people even more. If you are constantly dieting but gain the weight back when you stop, or if you cannot maintain your weight in the long term despite dieting, there may be a few psychology-based things to look at. The first of these is scarcity consciousness.
This consciousness may come from higher generations. If you were constantly raised with negative suggestions in terms of food or money, if you were treated as if money and food did not exist even when they were in the house you grew up in, if you always heard the sentence "Oh, we have it today, but it may not be tomorrow", this may have caused the consciousness of scarcity to arise in you. You may feel the need to store food in your body, fearing starvation due to the awareness of scarcity.
Attributing emotional meaning
Especially if the emotional meaning of some foods is very positive for you, you may use them too much to comfort yourself. You may be eating and gaining weight. For example, if chocolate was associated with fun, happiness and love in our minds in our childhood, and our parents showed their love by buying chocolate, when we are adults, when we feel bad, we can look for chocolate because it reminds us of positive emotions. Emotional eating is every person's right. Emotional eating is normal, what makes it a problem is that it is excessive and out of control, and what you look for here is to find the emotions you are avoiding by eating.
Eating as the only source of pleasure and entertainment
If the only pleasure And if your source of comfort is food, you will constantly eat to comfort yourself unless you find other alternatives to relieve your stress. It may be good to ask what else could calm and solve your stress and create a list of functional options.
Excessive intervention through food and body
If we were constantly exposed to positive or negative comments, constructive or non-constructive criticism about food and our bodies in our childhood, our weight -If our appearance is constantly compared to someone else, we may feel like we have lost control over our own stomach or even our own body.
It no longer belongs to us, it belongs to those who comment on us, and we feel obliged to go on a diet to make them happy.
We are physically protected from people who make such interventions. It is important to detach, try not to be affected by the emotions they throw when they intervene, and stay in our own emotions. As a result, your stomach and body belong to you, not to those who comment on them. Remember that you have many successes despite your weight and appearance that they are not happy with. If weight were everything, you wouldn't be able to achieve these.
Not being able to sense hunger-satiety signals
If you try to suppress your hunger with coffee, water or some herbal medicines and herbal teas, the rate at which you will attack eating will increase. Therefore, reading your hunger and fullness signals well, starting to prepare food when you are slightly hungry and eating before hunger becomes excessive will improve your relationship with food and enable you to give yourself healthy self-care. We can also think of it this way; If our child says he is hungry, do we recommend him to drink coffee or plenty of water, or do we prepare a healthy plate for him? It is important to take your own hunger signals seriously and to be prepared to avoid extreme hunger by anticipating the times when possible intense hunger signals will come.
Energy, movement balance
If you cannot release the energy you take into your body, this It may cause you to gain excess weight. If you do sports because you feel guilty, if doing sports and moving is your punishment system against overeating, doing sports will turn into torture and you will get bored. However, it is your body's right to be able to move freely and it is also psychologically beneficial. You should move whenever you want and know that you have the right to quit when you get bored. If there are feelings of guilt and punishment underlying doing sports, it would be good to recognize and transform them.
Unrealistic dreams
Genetic factor, life conditions, family background, psychological structure, your weight has a significant impact on. Therefore, trying to fall well below your average weight and Putting psychological pressure on yourself for this is an unrealistic expectation, but also very challenging. Finally; If diets worked in the long term, the obesity rate in the world would not increase so much. Instead of blaming yourself in this system, it would be most functional to question the accuracy of what is imposed on you and seek sustainable solutions.
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