Have you ever stopped to think about the relationship between emotions and overweight?
Overweight is one of the biggest headaches in the contemporary world, to this day science has not been able to fully explain which microbiological processes lead to obesity, what we do know is that there are several factors that produce it, but there are aspects that are still an enigma.
- The truth is that overweight cases have increased worldwide.
- The World Health Organization is talking about an epidemic.
- Especially in countries such as the United States.
- The United Kingdom.
- Mexico and China.
- Where the number of obese people has doubled or tripled.
Lighten your burden to chart a good path and learn to live with what the sea offers?Every object loved and possessed, every burden that leads life carries an implicit burden, with its unnecessary weights,?- Luis Chiozza-
This situation has also contributed to the creation of myths and prejudices about overweight. A symbolic universe has been built around obesity. It is associated with oversights when this is not true in many cases; there are people who let themselves go hungry and who still do not lose weight; obesity is also associated with the ugly and undesirable, which causes the subject to also have a heavy psychological burden. Load.
A few decades ago we began to study the relationship between emotions and overweight, low-calorie diets and constant exercise may not be enough to achieve optimal results, which has led us to think that there are associated factors that are of the order of the unconscious.
From a strictly anatomical point of view, the accumulation of fat in the body does not always become overweight, as the amount of fat increases weight. What is not so clear is whether the increase in adiposity is reflected in a person’s total weight. Often, as fat increases, muscle mass decreases.
This means that the number of kilograms a person possesses does not necessarily reflect the amount of accumulated fat, and losing weight is not synonymous with thinness. Finally, what worries many people is not the weight of their body, but the shape of it.
The fat accumulated in some areas becomes visible and undesirable because there is an ideal silhouette pattern. A person with michelines around the waist or a prominent belly may weigh the same weight as a thinner person, but with a higher muscle mass. Weight itself is not the real problem. What psychologically affects many people is the contrast between their figure and the ideal established in society.
According to Dr. Luis Chiozza, there is scientific evidence that some people tend to accumulate fat with some ‘ease’, their bodies also have a particular resistance to the use of this accumulated fat, to establish why this phenomenon occurs, quotes the Argentine doctor the fundamental function of this adipose tissue: to serve as a caloric reserve or energy reserve.
This author indicates that there are unconscious thoughts associated with the storage and retention of fat in the body. It emphasizes that, in principle, the accumulation of adipose tissue is an adaptive response to the possibility of experiencing periods of scarcity. The reservation is made so that it is possible to compensate for the scarcity when the necessary time comes. Migratory birds increase the amount of fat in their bodies before their grueling journeys.
In humans, the organism accumulates fat from a long-term reserve thought, a thought that in turn is linked to another thinking related to “supply in itself”: you need nothing but yourself to ensure the continuity of life. the change in morphology corresponds to a third thought: to move away from the scheme, that is, to escape the rule. In this case, ideally.
Dr. Chiozza concludes that there is a relationship between emotions and overweight and that it could be a form of defense in the event of unconscious conflict related to a feeling of disability. Fat accumulation is a way to reserve for an action that is ultimately not for fear of not being able to carry out. Increasing body size would be a kind of compensation for this feeling of helplessness. Finally, the unconscious feeling of disability is not tolerated and conflict is covered with overweight.
One way or another, it is necessary to differentiate the physical risk that this may pose for some people to be overweight of the psychological discomfort that may occur because it does not meet the standards of beauty that prevail in our society, the truth is that both circumstances generally coexist, so a good assessment is important, in this sense it is possible to take advantage of the motivation of the patient to be able to follow certain patterns of exercise and diet that , along with metabolism, are the main weight regulators.