Achieving long term weight loss.
But diets alone don’t work - 95% of people who go on diets put the weight back on again after they’ve finished the diet.
Please see article on weight loss by Stephen O’Rahilly, professor of clinical biochemistry and medicine at Cambridge University.
If we consume more calories than we burn, our bodies will store the excess as fat; if we burn more calories than we eat, we will lose weight.
So why is achieving long term weight loss so difficult to achieve? The answer lies in the simple fact that we eat more than we need.
We can usually trace the origins and causes of eating too much:
* Food
supplies the Love and Affection missing in our life
* Eating satisfies other Emotional needs
* Influence of habits inherited from Parental behaviour -
‘Waste not, want not'
* Habitual eating - over-riding the body’s natural messages,
e.g. knowing when our stomach is full
* Plain Boredom
Think Slim, be Slim
The aim of the treatment programme is to use a mixture of therapies to identify and reframe Limiting Beliefs, challenge our eating habits and initiate thinking like a slim person. This involves the four main principles of achieving long term weight loss:1. Eat
only when we are physically hungry
2. Eat a balanced diet
3. Eat s-l-o-w-l-y
4. Get more active
We then progress onto monthly sessions until our target weight is reached. We will be aiming to consistently lose
just 1-3 lbs. a week.
If we lose weight this way, slowly, by permanently changing our thinking and eating habits; then the excess weight will stay off.
The programme changes our attitude to food and eating; it works well with any type of sensible diet.