Many people want to lose weight, especially if they feel that their weight is out of control. Now for many people who want to lose weight, they usually achieve it, if there is no underlying issue. Since I was at University, about 20 years ago, I did not want to work with weight loss. There reason for that is that many of the people who had a weight problem, nutrition or eating was not the only problem. The majority of them had other issues. For some of them, was due to stress, which it meant that they would accumulate weight on the abdomen, as the cortisol was up all the time and cortisol promotes the accumulation of fat around the abdomen. This is the most serious weight problem as this will eventually lead to heart disease and diabetes type II. The reason is that cortisol and sugar and bad eating habits go hand to hand. The person is stressed out, drinks a lot of coffee, or sugary foods or fried and salty foods. Quite often they eat out or they eat little, however, as I mentioned above they drink coffee, teas, and or red bull, coca cola or similar drinks to get some of the fuel that the brain and body needs to function. Some extreme ones on top of the stress at work, they run or do some very powerful adrenaline driven exercise, so on top of that there is more physical and mental stress. So, the cycle goes on. For other people, they eat absolutely very healthy, however, if you look at the amount of carbohydrates they eat, is quite high, some are vegetarian, but just non-eating meat and fish rather than having the protein from the beans, lentils, tofu, eggs etc., or eat a lot of cheese.
Now I do not deal with weight loss itself, however I deal with possible allergy and possible emotional problems which leads the person to make different choice of food and lifestyle. So, the vegetables are in more, the varied diet is in, the less carbohydrate, sugar and sugary foods are in. By working with craniosacral therapy, the emotional toxic also goes away, which it means, reducing the stress level and the cortisol level. With the cortisol level, down, the person sleeps more, the body and mind gets more rests, and the sugar cycle goes down as well, as they crave less sugar and sugary foods, wants to eat more healthy foods that are suitable for them, they want to do more gentle exercises such as Pilate, yoga, swimming, gentle walks in the park, their lifestyle gets better as they slow down. Every part of their lives rush goes down. They can feel more what they are doing to their body, they can feel more how they are on the physical level and their emotional and mental state. Which it means, they can also see where they are at in their life, what else they want to do, what stops them doing it, what negative toxic energy they can eliminate or disperse, and they lose weight!
In the scientific term, there is the Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, which connects the brain to the adrenal stress response and then connects or disconnects the brain to the digestive system, which it means, that if the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is on, the digestive system is off. This leads to people non-digestive their food properly, stress results in inflammation, which can also lead to liver overload, constipation, leaky gut, complex foods entering the blood stream, the immune system reacting to complex foods and then strong allergies reactions occurs. And the cycle goes on and on, till the stress cycle is reduced and all is balanced again.
So, emotions, mental and diet all go together. I have seen two studies mentioned in my reference that have tried to have people who have either diabetes II or obesity, change their lifestyle with either diet and exercise and mindfulness classes or no mindfulness classes. What I was drawn to is not only the fact of people needed to recognise their own emotions and deal with them but the fact that one of the requisite to be part in the study is willing to change their diet and lifestyle and many did not want to give up or change things around!
My opinion of a successful treatment and consultation and outcome of that consultation is when the person is ready to choose to get better, when they are ready to change everything to get better, including regarding themselves as the most important person in their life! And that they are worth their own healing and health as much as anybody else!
Reference:
- Daubemnier J. et al (2011). Mindfulness Intervention for Stress Eating to Reduce Cortisol and Abdominal Fat among Overweight and Obese Women: An Exploratory Randomized Controlled Study. Journal of Obesity. Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 651936,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/651936 - Saslow LR et al (2017). An Online Intervention Comparing a Very Low-Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diet and Lifestyle Recommendations Versus a Plate Method Diet in Overweight Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Med Internet Res. Feb 13; 19 (2): e36.
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