Weight Management

When is it time to get help?

There are many programs available to help you achieve a healthy weight (mostly for weight loss). But maybe there’s more to managing your weight than just how much you eat in relation to how much you exercise. What barriers are within you that may need addressing? Why do you overeat, or undereat? Why is it so hard for you to exercise or reduce how much you exercise? Are you making excuses for your unhealthy choices? What is happening in your comfort zone and how can you get out of there if it’s harming you? These are complex issues that are about more than just a love of ice cream and a lack of willpower. If you’ve struggled to maintain a healthy weight and everything you’ve tried fails or doesn’t last, then it’s time to try something new – therapy!

Weight management treatment methods

There are many ways to maintain a healthy weight – diets, exercise regimens, etc. but there are also psychological treatments that can work too. Your therapist will talk with you to find out what is causing problems in your relationship with your weight and then determine a treatment method that will best suit your needs. Effective treatments include:

• Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is an evidence-based approach to treatment that focuses on how people’s thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence their behaviour and how they perceive themselves.
• Mindfulness Therapy is an approach to treatment that focuses on how people’s thoughts, emotions, and beliefs influence their behaviour and how they perceive themselves, others, and the world. The ability to be in the moment, to acknowledge and regulate your emotions helps you to break free from negative thought patterns.
• Behaviour Therapy tends to view human beings and behaviour with the assumption that humans are a product of their sociocultural conditioning and environment, looking at the current problems and the factors influencing them and emphasizes behaviour changes more than the underlying unconscious processes.