How Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps you lose weight

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Weight-loss, Therapy, CBT.

Obesity is a Health problem that affects millions of people. Being obese or overweight can cause serious health issues, such as heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea and arthritis.

There are several treatments for obesity, from drug treatments with nasty side effects to going through surgery.

The most effective is changing your lifestyle, which is where CBT, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy can make the difference.

CBT is a type of Psychological Therapy to treat a great variety of problems that can affect the process of weight loss.

The more significant obstacle to losing weight is changing our behaviour towards food choices and exercise.

The way people think affects how they feel and behave. CBT helps you identify sabotaging thoughts and modify how you think and behave.

CBT teaches you to challenge the thoughts that lead you to perpetuate unhealthy choices.; after all, many of our daily decisions are emotional instead of rational.

We all know that to lose weight, you need to decrease your body's energy intake to create a deficit, but knowing what to do and how to get yourself to do it are different skills.

Dieting is not an easy process, and you will need to solve practical and psychological problems such as:

• You finish the food on your plate and not feeling satisfied.

• You went to a party and felt tempted to skip the diet.

• You felt upset, and you thought food could help.

• You didn't find the time to go shopping and cook.

• You feel discouraged when you don't lose weight consistently or the amount you expected.

• You feel overwhelmed by the demands of your diet, deprived and tired.
  

CBT can help a person lose weight and maintain it by:

• Assisting a person in controlling their diet.

• Set realistic and achievable goals towards weight.

• Helping to increase motivation to exercise.

• Provide coping skills to handle any lapses in diet that the person will experience.

• Provide long-term weight maintenance skills.

• Changing a person's body image and their expectation of body image.

• Improving a person's self-esteem.

• Helping with stress management (a primary reason for 'comfort eating').

In conclusion, CBT is a practical, sustainable, empirically supported way of helping people lose weight safely and stay motivated, so if you are willing to work the process and tired of going back and forth with your weight, you won't be disappointed at the results CBT can bring to your body aesthetic and personal growth.