OVERWEIGHT: DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT APPROACH

Dr. Jean-Philippe is a French Zermati convinced that doctors, media and government are taking the fight against obesity and overweight from the wrong end. For him, trying to control our diet using our intellect, it is not a good solution ...

Against overweight, should we give up to lose weight?

This is the paradoxical program we propose Dr. Zermati. It starts from the observation that in fact the vast majority of plans, even if they are effective at the start, eventually leading to a failure or a final weight which is even higher than the starting overweight. His conclusion is that we need to change lenses. Do not look for a weight loss, but a more balanced relationship with her body and diet. Where this idea is difficult to accept is that it makes the weight loss, "not a hope but a promise" according to Dr. Zermati. In many cases, regain balance will lose weight. But not always! You will have to learn to live with this body that still weighs too heavy for our taste.

Give up some control of what we eat

Often, to lose weight, we set very strict rules: never eat between meals, never eat products that are more than a certain number of calories per hundred grams, never touch a pizza or fries. .. All these instructions ask us to separate, at least part of the time our food sensations: "Even though I am very hungry to 16 hours, I do not eat anything until 19:30, scheduled meals." It is then necessary to set up complicated avoidance strategies foods "forbidden" clearing times when one cracked (by a very light meal or doing a lot of sports), etc.

The problem is that control a lot of energy ... and is by definition fragile.

Learning to manage emotions without food

When our relationship to our diet is not balanced, and that we are not able to control it using our mind, it is our emotions that run what we eat. We turn to food to calm us, encourage us, reassure us ... in short, to protect us emotions that we consider as negative. In doing so, we cut our food also sensations: it is not by hunger we eat, but because we are afraid that we are angry, depressed, or otherwise. Every emotion is therefore an obstacle to our weight loss. Now, we all have emotions all the time, and that's good!

The solution: find his sensations

For Professor Zermati these two popular profiles, which may also coexist, are involved in the failure of all plans for weight loss. The real solution is to reconnect with our food sensations when do I hungry? What I want to eat now? When do I satisfied? The exercise is not easy. Here are some things that may help:

Keep a food diary that lists food sensations (when hungry, not hungry, the feeling of having eaten too much ...) and effectively absorbed food.

Eating focusing on food, to increase its awareness of what we eat.

Accept and accept his overweight, so that at least the pounds do not become a pretext for taking ... pounds!

Is it, then forget his regime?

His regime, perhaps. But certainly not all good diet advice diet!