Compulsive eating (uncontrolled overeating that is not related to hunger) was investigated in 279 college women with the use of a self-report questionnaire. Results indicated a relationship between unpleasant emotional states (boredom, depression, anxiety, loneliness, anger),compulsive eating and the calming effect of eating.
If you tend to feel unhappy, then you might find yourself eating as a form of self-medication to make yourself feel better. What else might you do to lighten your mood. Phone a friend maybe, go out for a walk, go and see a film or take up knitting.
Hypnotherapy helps you to deal with your emotions, so if this is the cause of your overeating, why not deal with the cause, using hypnotherapy?
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Are you pouring on the pounds?
A New York campaign has just been launched to limit consumption of fizzy drinks.
Read it.... Scotland is second only to the US in obesity rates.
Clearly it is not just me banging on about fizzy drinks. Fundamentally I suppose I feel that pop is for children, who need the sugar while they are growing rapidly. And we adults just don't need these sugar-filled drinks - and they really are sugar-filled. You wouldn't put 10 teaspoons of sugar in your tea, would you? Would you? Check the next can of pop that you buy. Most are around 150-200 calories. A teaspoon of sugar is 16 calories. Find out more here!
Most of Americans increase in weight over the last 30 years comes from adding these sugary drinks to their diet. Since making a change to other drinks is relatively easy, here is a way to reduce your weight with very little effort indeed. Give it a try!
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Read it.... Scotland is second only to the US in obesity rates.
Clearly it is not just me banging on about fizzy drinks. Fundamentally I suppose I feel that pop is for children, who need the sugar while they are growing rapidly. And we adults just don't need these sugar-filled drinks - and they really are sugar-filled. You wouldn't put 10 teaspoons of sugar in your tea, would you? Would you? Check the next can of pop that you buy. Most are around 150-200 calories. A teaspoon of sugar is 16 calories. Find out more here!
Most of Americans increase in weight over the last 30 years comes from adding these sugary drinks to their diet. Since making a change to other drinks is relatively easy, here is a way to reduce your weight with very little effort indeed. Give it a try!
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Take up knitting!
I often suggest to my clients that they might take up knitting! I heard on the radio recently that the majority of people watch tv for more than 3 hours a day. This is an obesity risk, since we often feel the need to do something while watching telly, and this frequently takes the form of eating. Eating and knitting are incompatible, so it is a way to stop you nibbling.
And today on the radio, it seems that NHS Highland staff are taking up knitting to relieve stress. Why not give it a try! Look here.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
And today on the radio, it seems that NHS Highland staff are taking up knitting to relieve stress. Why not give it a try! Look here.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Help with getting some exercise
Exercise is important for general health, reducing the risk of osteoporosis, and keeping your joints supple.
It is not necessary to do masses unless you like it, but fitting a bit more exercise into your daily routine will make a difference to your weight. On this blog, I am trying to encourage you to make a few small changes every week, so that over the long term, you will find that your weight has settled down to a healthy, easy to maintain level.
Changing from a sedentary to a moderately active lifestyle or from moderate to highly active helps you burn calories faster. Have a look at this website to give you an idea of how this change affects your weight.
Walk jog run helps you plan a walking route, measures it out for you and tells you whether you are slow or fast! Not only that, but you can see the routes that other people have taken, so you can explore Glasgow a bit wider.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
It is not necessary to do masses unless you like it, but fitting a bit more exercise into your daily routine will make a difference to your weight. On this blog, I am trying to encourage you to make a few small changes every week, so that over the long term, you will find that your weight has settled down to a healthy, easy to maintain level.
Changing from a sedentary to a moderately active lifestyle or from moderate to highly active helps you burn calories faster. Have a look at this website to give you an idea of how this change affects your weight.
Walk jog run helps you plan a walking route, measures it out for you and tells you whether you are slow or fast! Not only that, but you can see the routes that other people have taken, so you can explore Glasgow a bit wider.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
Yoga can help you lose weight
One of my clients told me she found yoga helpful. As a result, I have been keeping an eye out for research into yoga and weight loss.
A study funded by the United States National Cancer Institute shows that regular yoga practice can help control middle-age spread, maintaining the weight of normal-weight middle-aged people, and possibly contributing to weight loss among the overweight middle-aged. They published a follow-up in August 2009.
“In our earlier study, we found that middle-age people who practice yoga gained less weight over a 10-year period than those who did not. This was independent of physical activity and dietary patterns. We hypothesised that mindfulness — a skill learned either directly or indirectly through yoga — could affect eating behaviour,”
This supports a great deal of the research which you will find on my blog. Eating in front of the telly, in the car, or any time when you are really doing something else, means you eat more. This sort of eating stops your digestive system from telling the brain that you have had enough to eat. Stretch receptors take about 20 minutes to notice that we are full, and if we miss the signals, we will overeat. His research shows the Mindfulness that comes from practising yoga keeps you in control when faced with delicious food when you are not hungry.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
A study funded by the United States National Cancer Institute shows that regular yoga practice can help control middle-age spread, maintaining the weight of normal-weight middle-aged people, and possibly contributing to weight loss among the overweight middle-aged. They published a follow-up in August 2009.
“In our earlier study, we found that middle-age people who practice yoga gained less weight over a 10-year period than those who did not. This was independent of physical activity and dietary patterns. We hypothesised that mindfulness — a skill learned either directly or indirectly through yoga — could affect eating behaviour,”
This supports a great deal of the research which you will find on my blog. Eating in front of the telly, in the car, or any time when you are really doing something else, means you eat more. This sort of eating stops your digestive system from telling the brain that you have had enough to eat. Stretch receptors take about 20 minutes to notice that we are full, and if we miss the signals, we will overeat. His research shows the Mindfulness that comes from practising yoga keeps you in control when faced with delicious food when you are not hungry.
www.carolinebrowntherapy.com
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