Hi all

Are you becoming obese day by day?

Is that bothering you a lot? (It did me!!)

Have you ever made an attempt to find out the reason?

If not, then do so immediately!

Most of the common reasons for becoming fat are biological in nature but have you ever considered the importance of psychological factors? Researches have shown that psychological factors are equally important in causing fat. This article will focus this point from a broad angle.

Some books that consider becoming fat is a habit deny the psychological aspects. But that is certainly not right. Four significant psychological factors that cause obesity are discussed below.

The first reason is quite interesting to note. Think of the time when you had lost weight and partially achieved the goal of loosing weight. Were you too nervous, talkative, and given to a lot of drinking and smoking at that time? If it is so, then the reason why you became obese certainly has some psychological reasons triggering it.

The second reason says, incase you have gained more than 1 pound in a week after dieting then one of the probable causes for the pre-diet additional weight is surely psychological. In this case, the addictive allergies are not taken into consideration for gaining weight. There are some eating disorders which help to gain and lose weight. Anorexia nervosa makes you loose weight and Bulimia nervosa causes weight gain. Both of these disorders have strong psychological basis.

The next factor lays stress on the kind of food that you take. If the ‘food binges’ are initiated by stress then it is most probably due to a psychological cause. If the problem of becoming overweight began during the ‘growing up’ age then the psychological factors are most likely to be considered as important factors.

It is very difficult to lose those extra pounds which you have gained during a psychological trauma. Moreover, the scariest part is that there is no treatment available to lose this fat. For most of the people the path to becoming slim is quite long and is very often filled with potholes and detours. It cannot be guaranteed at the end that you will have a svelte body.

Psychological triggers to overeating are mentioned in many books. But these are not that useful. The very common psychological disturbance is stress. Stress causes overeating. You eat more in order to get relief from stress. There are some emotions and some sexual aspects as well that cause stress. You may want to avoid such aspects in life but since you can’t always do so it causes stress. As a result you tend to eat more than usual and thus gain fat.

People suffering from ‘psychological food problems’ would also tend to eat more. Any traumatic situation that you would like to avoid will also cause stress. So the only solution lies in not getting stressed. Though this is “easier said than done”, to be honest there is no other option left. Face every situation boldly and with full confidence. For changing stress to calmness take willingness, commitment and energy and take the stressful situations head-on.

Fat is often considered as a symptom such as alcohol consumption, headache or phobia. Your main aim should be to find out the psychological basis for these conditions. Now, that you already know that gaining weight does have a psychological basis, your problem is half solved. So don’t worry about those extra pounds of flesh and concentrate more on reducing stress.

And relax…..

Alex.