TheBookworm on Nostr: Often simply encouraging healthy eating and exercise doesn’t work, and not because ...
Often simply encouraging healthy eating and exercise doesn’t work, and not because people aren’t open to the ideas or don’t want to be healthy.
What’s often missing from the conversation is the underlying reason they are overweight.
I’ve studied Stress counselling and the negative impacts of stress on people is vastly understated. A LOT of people eat their stress (be it work pressures, relationship issues, loneliness, or poverty and financial stress).
Until someone can understand that it may be triggering their eating and they can also address their stress levels (which is not always easy) they will struggle to lose weight.
Shame and mocking just creates more stress.
I get that the body positivity movement seems like an unhealthy acceptance but I look at it more as a pathway to removing a layer of excess stress so we can get to the real issue.
Stress is insidious.
What’s often missing from the conversation is the underlying reason they are overweight.
I’ve studied Stress counselling and the negative impacts of stress on people is vastly understated. A LOT of people eat their stress (be it work pressures, relationship issues, loneliness, or poverty and financial stress).
Until someone can understand that it may be triggering their eating and they can also address their stress levels (which is not always easy) they will struggle to lose weight.
Shame and mocking just creates more stress.
I get that the body positivity movement seems like an unhealthy acceptance but I look at it more as a pathway to removing a layer of excess stress so we can get to the real issue.
Stress is insidious.