This is a relation between weight and "confusion
of emotions". The idea that the recognition of our bodily needs,
especially our need to eat, is not innate but acquired during a learning since
our childhood and the early months of life . If this learning is defective, the
child may be unable to distinguish the feeling of other emotional states
hungry, which can lead to reckless food intake ??
Weight gain: Mrs R's history
Ms. Monica R, aged 41, comes to
see me ?? lose weight. She has no family of overweight or obesity antecedent. She
had a depressive episode at the age of 20 years. Her history "weight"
begins around the age where she is going through a difficult period
professional and begins to grow to switch 53 kg to 62 kg for 1.52 m.
Considering the body mass index (BMI), it goes to a normal weight (BMI 23 kg /
m²) at a moderate overweight (BMI 26.8 kg / m²). It was at this time that it
will begin to make plans with a true syndrome of "yo-yo" since each
system, it takes more weight to reach after 16 years a maximum weight of 98 kg
or a taking 45 kg in 16 years. In recent months, she paid more attention to his
diet and lost about ten pounds. She comes to me because its weight stagnates. She
tells me tend to crack when anxieties. At the first visit, her weight is 89 kg,
or a BMI of 38 kg / m². Clinical examination showed no impact of this excess
weight on health. However, there is a significant self-esteem disorder with
feelings of worthlessness.
How Ms R comes to the
"big yoyo"
I asked him to work dietetics from
calibrated menus. My goal is to allow it to stand in relation to a calibrated
power supply and so appreciate its current level of restriction. Indeed, it has
already established dietary adjustments that allowed her to lose 10 kg. I also
asked her to work a little differently in order to avoid the "ever more of
the same thing does not work" and that is endlessly repeated. "I'm
regime: I lose weight ?? I stop the regime: I take more weight ?? What do I do
then: an even stricter regime that makes me lose a little less weight, to take
more then ?? ". Syndrome "yo-yo" in all its glory ??
Hypnosis to analyze his
feelings face to plate
This work is focused on the
problem of "cracking under stress" and the issue of self-self. I
suggested she use Ericksonian hypnosis in this. I see her again after one month
for a first session: How well controlled diet and lost 3 kilos. I teach her a
hypnosis technique based on breathing. The meeting focused on comfort in the
body. This database will be used to train her to do self-hypnosis. After a
month, she has lost a kilo. We continue to work in hypnosis. I direct the
session on the sensations at meal time. After entry into hypnosis, I ask her to
find one of her last meal and observe the sensations present in his body, just
before eating and to describe me: no special feeling. I ask her if she feels
hunger: the answer is no. I asked her to imagine that her plate was empty
before it without being able to touch while remaining attentive to her
feelings. A feeling of malaise appears. I explore this malaise by asking her to
find other situations where she felt something similar. A first image appears:
that of a recent argument with her husband. I ask him to continue the
exploration: it sees itself after a few moments at the age of 6 years at the
start of its big brother 12 years older. The emotional reaction is then
important. We work this point in the session. She then explained to me that his
big brother was the person with whom she got along better. His mother was
rather authoritarian and "weight obsessed." She always felt rejected,
considering themselves the accident the family. With his brother, they were the
two "small big family."
What can we learn from this
observation?
The first lesson concerns the
devastating side of the yo-yo. This multitude of frustrating diets that lead to
obesity! This is what we call obesity "consequences of the plans."
Ms. Monica R begins to make a diet moderately overweight enough to finish in
severe obesity ?? The problem is basically the self-esteem disorder that leads
to sometimes make "strict diets" without real weight problems . At
Mrs. R, we understand better the hypnosis actually work the problem of these
episodes of frustration restrictions which brings the other empty at how much
more painful ??
The confusion of emotions
We call this "confusion of
emotions." The body does not distinguish between a feeling of hunger,
which is not analyzed as such, and the sadness of a vacuum linked to the
departure of a loved one ?? The feeling back in this emotional state that can
not be calmed by the food ?? Hence the risk of using food inappropriately and
all the "caloric excesses" that this can constitute often, for weight
loss, substantial work is required. This work will not lead to weight loss
"miracle" but allow positioning of the food to its proper place:
"fun food", "social food", "food sharing" ?? and
avoid using food to poor destiny fill an endless void without hunger.
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