Struggling with Weight Loss or Healthy Eating?
Have you got concerns with food or body image? Are you embarrassed or worried about your body or eating habits? Obesity, binge eating, purging and restricting food can all be serious and debilitating problems. Nearly 70% of adults are considered overweight or obese. With the number of overweight individuals growing every year, it is becoming more obvious that the traditional routes of weight-loss (diets, exercise, etc.) are not cutting it. But the issue with being overweight is not simply aesthetics in terms of body shape and size. Being overweight is a serious health risk as it can lead to other medical problems such as diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, kidney disease, certain types of cancer, and many more. Not only does being overweight increase the risk for medical/physical problems, but also mental health problems. In general, people who are overweight tend to struggle with low self-esteem, increased anxiety, and depression. Clearly, being overweight can significantly impact a person’s life, and seeking a non-traditional approach to weight loss might be the key to success.
What causes us to gain weight?
- Tempting foods we see and smell
- How we were raised around food
- Using food to medicate ourselves or manage stress or emotions
- Our genetics
- Underestimating calories in foods
- Overestimating calories burned by exercise
- Cycle of Emotional Eating/ Drinking
- Overeating or starving to compensate for bingeing
- Feeling out of control around food
- Secret eating, portion sizes
- Unrealistic rules about healthy foods and then bingeing on unhealthy foods
- Pretending that you’re okay with your weight when you’re not
- Confidence in being able to change
- Self-esteem and the relationship this has with Body image
- Self-sabotage and barriers to change
Online Treatment
Are you looking to achieve sustainable weight loss? Research indicates that traditional diet/ exercise programs are effective (but often only short term), individualised support from a psychologist can help you to make this change sustainable. Happy Therapists will help you to tackle the root of the problem rather than just the symptoms. An online psychologist will help you to develop an understanding of how this problem has arisen and implement effective ways of addressing your unworkable/unhealthy habits.
CBT Weight Loss Therapy can help you manage cravings and urges, learn healthy ways to manage your emotions, and navigate relationship, work, and financial problems. You can learn to change your thinking, feelings, and behaviors. You can feel better, communicate effectively, and solve problems in your life that in the past may have put you at risk for losing motivation, overeating, and giving up on your diet. CBT Weight Loss Therapy can help you make the right food choices and continue to exercise, even when you don’t feel like it or have lost motivation. Weight Loss Therapy goes beyond what to eat and how to exercise to help you enhance your motivation, manage your emotions and relationships, and solve other problems in your life. You know keeping the weight off is about a lot more than just food and exercise.
Recently, the scientific and medical communities have begun to sing the praises of CBT for weight loss benefits. Several large profile studies have detailed the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy as a supplement to traditional diet and exercise. The studies have shown that patients using CBT in addition to diet and exercise showed more dramatic and long-lasting changes to their overall body composition than those that used just diet and exercise, or just cognitive behavioral therapy.
Please contact us to book a 100% confidential appointment and find out how we can support you to improve your satisfaction with body image and achieve your weight loss goals.