How To Lose Weight? Stuck Alarm

2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43

There are many reasons for a person to become overweight. Excess weight often becomes a serious problem: it both affects health and worsens psychological well-being - mood deteriorates, self-esteem decreases, etc. Of course, on a conscious level, everyone wants to be slim, fit, beautiful.

I specially noted this very "conscious" level, because at the level of the unconscious, a variety of forces act, including auto-aggression (self-destruction), sometimes manifesting in this way - unconscious harm to your body through overeating, gaining excess weight.

But today we will talk about something else - not about auto-aggression, but about “seizing anxiety”, about how this mechanism works.

Anxiety seizing is a protective psychological mechanism designed to reduce anxiety levels. In a state of stress, the need to solve some difficult problem, the level of anxiety increases and if you eat something sweet at this moment: candy (more often - several pieces at once), cake, then, firstly, attention will switch to something pleasant, that will distract from anxiety, secondly, as you know, eating sugar (sweet) leads to an increase in the amount of dopamine in the body, which also reduces anxiety.

The level of anxiety decreases, but instead comes self-accusation, guilt, shame: “Why did I get drunk for the night!”, “I ate a loaf again …” and the like. Guilt increases the anxiety, the woman feels the folds on her sides with horror, which only increases the anxiety. A vicious circle arises.

How to get out of it? What to do in such a situation? To work with the root of the problem - anxiety, or rather, even the fear that lies behind the anxiety. What worries, worries really? What fear do you want to push away from yourself, to seize, to anesthetize?

There can be many reasons for such anxiety. Often it is the need to make some important decision - to get divorced or stay in this toxic relationship, change jobs or not. Anxiety can increase against the background of age crises, growing up of children, death and illness of loved ones.

Yes, the causes of obesity and excess weight are not necessarily only psychological. And it is not necessarily the seizure of anxiety that is behind this problem. The reasons can be somatic, associated with various diseases, pregnancy and childbirth, and many other factors.

However, seizing anxiety is one of the most common causes of excess weight. And working out your anxious states with a psychologist is a way to not only improve your state of mind, gain calmness and self-confidence, but also a way to normalize your weight, gain a beautiful figure.