Plenty.
We put mayonnaise almost into every dish, bake cakes.
Then people visit each other with baskets full of food. You try from my basket; I try from yours.
Ten days that shook the world from the 25th of December to the 5th of January.
Over ten days.
Precisely! Some people start to celebrate even earlier. They not only eat far too much, but they also drink alcohol! As a result, happy and swollen people return to work after vacation. Some gain fifteen pounds, the others twenty pounds.
By the way, most of this weight is due to the fluid accumulated in edemas. But there is some fat too!
Habit is the second nature
Habits. Who instills them in us, and how? At first parents, people emotionally crucial for us, then teachers, relatives. We will discuss these habits and the impact they have on gaining excess weight. For example, lets take the habit of eating up.
Every dish!
Clean Plates Society. A woman from the morning group said that parents used to tell her when she was a little girl: You should see a flower at the bottom of your plate.
So, the child eats, digging deeper and deeper with his spoon, but there is no flower. The girl continues to work on it.
A woman told me recently: I force my grandchildren to eat. They dont want to eat up, but I force them by any means. For example, by telling them: You dont love your Granny!
My mother just tied the child, my younger brother, to the chair.
Really?
Yes, its true. He is a man now, and he eats nothing except sausages, cheese, and candies. I told her: What have you done to your son? She replies: What should I do? He didnt eat. So, I tied him, opened his mouth, and force-fed him.
Thats how it works sometimes! Its a frustrating story with sad consequences.
Andrey Vasilyevich Trenogov, psychologist, psychiatrist:
Id like to tell you another story. Once I had at my seminar a client with a weight of two hundred fifty pounds. On the first day, when we talked about reasons for weight gain, he said that he was always overweight as a kid. The man was sure that in his case, this problem was inborn, and he came just to check if it would help him.
Then, during relaxation, he suddenly remembered that at the age of four, he went to the village to his grandparents for the whole summer. And for the entire summer, they told him: Eat more, and youll become a superman and stuff like that. He also said that for some reason, he was the only child in the village full of super-caring older adults. They made a schedule establishing where and when he would have lunch. Can you imagine how eager they were to feed the only four-year-old child in the village and how they persuaded him to eat one more spoon for his Mom, Dad, and Granny?
As soon as the man realized that it was just a mindset adopted in childhood, and he didnt need to continue to follow it, his excess weight began to disappear. As a result, he lost one hundred thirty-two pounds without any effort!
Group session of psychologist
Artyom Andreyevich Ovechkin:
Social pressure in terms of nutrition takes place among the grown-ups too. For example, when you come to visit someone but you are not hungry. However, they start to beg and force you to eat by all means, as a rule, by manipulation, making you feel guilty: Why dont you eat? Do you mean to offend me? I cooked until midnight yesterday! You do not respect me. What a shame!
There is a joke Id like to tell you. Once a woman with excess weight came to a doctor and told him: Im done. I have a big family. I eat up after everyone. Kids do not eat at all. My husband doesnt eat much.We have a bunch of leftovers every day, and I eat up everything! The doctor asks her: You live in the countryside, right? Then you should buy a pig and feed it. What? Do you want me to eat up after the pig too?
Yes! Well, thats a different situation. You are not hungry, but your friends or relatives force you to eat: What does it mean you are not hungry? How can it be?
I bet you did it once or twice, or maybe even many times, Galina?
Of course, I did. My husband returns home from work and says that he is not hungry. What? You have to eat at least a little bit. Thanks, I am not hungry. What? Where were you? You had dinner somewhere! What does it mean?
Eating everywhere, eating with everyone
Eating to join the club. As usual, a person eats one and a half, and sometimes twice as much when eating with friends. Researchers conducted experiments in different countries. A person eats less when surrounded by strangers. When dining with friends, one overeats.
What about TV?
Dining with TV is the worst option. Well discuss it today.
Lets talk about physiological reasons for weight gain. What are they?
Sedentary life.
Inactive lifestyle, heredity, and so on. Poor me, Ive got a defective gene from Granny, and it ruined my life. Have you seen my Granny? No? Look, here is her picture. So what? Its not my fault that I am overweight? Look! My Granny weighted three hundred thirty pounds. Have you seen my Mom? Now you understand!
People tend to shift responsibility to other shoulders.
It is the easiest way to explain obesity. I am fat because all my ancestors were fat.
Other popular contributors are pregnancy and maternity. Nika, I know you consider it to be a reason for your weight gain.
Olga Vladimirovna Tsyganova, 28, economist, lost 110 lbs: When people ask me how I had gained so much weight, I reply: I had been overeating since I was a child. I never blamed my heredity or anybody even though my parents introduced baby porridges to me too early. They were afraid that their daughter would be undernourished. As she grew older, she continued to eat more and more, and then she started gorging herself with foods. Yes, I ate a lot. Even when I was full, I couldnt stop staring at all these yummy foods. When I came to grannies, aunts, it seemed like their main task was to shove everything they had into me, just to demonstrate hospitality. And I was pretty content with it. I am sure many of you understand me very well.
Frankly speaking, I still have this feeling from time to time, but now I know how to deal with it. In my childhood, parents often took me to endocrinologists. Doctors claimed with one accord that I would lose excess weight as I grew older, I would shoot up. But it never happened. By twenty-one, I weighed two hundred fifty pounds. How I hated my reflection in the mirror, I hated myself for my weakness! At one point, an inner voice told me: Olya, you cant go on like this, and you will be unhappy for the rest of your life. And it just clicked in my mind. That summer, I finished the fourth year of university and had the last year ahead. Suddenly I realized that I wanted to receive an honors diploma and come to the University graduation ceremony as a slim beauty wearing a beautiful outfit. So, I got two primary goals for the coming year: an honors diploma and a slim body! Well, I achieved my goals. Now its your turn. Will you dare?