At age 28 I woke up to prepare for work like any other day, except that day when I opened my closet I had no clothes that fit, nothing to wear for work. I froze for a minute in fear then decided I needed to do something.\u00a0 I remembered attending weight watcher meetings with my Mom at age 5, so I called in sick to work, found a meeting and became a weight watcher that day. I walked through the door scared, embarrassed but determined to do whatever I needed to do, whatever they told me to do to lose weight and get healthy. I lost 25 pounds in 2 years. That may seem like a long time to some, but I was more interested in learning and changing so I could keep it off for a long time. So 28 years later I have sustained that weight loss, plus a little more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I worked 10 years in the weight loss industry, but early on I discovered a food relationship is so much more than I could ever imagine. That fueled my passion to pursue a career as a Psychotherapist helping adults understand their current disordered food relationship and create a sustainable one supported by psychological, behavior and lifestyle factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This post will introduce you to the Psychological factors of readiness, change, success-failure of weight loss and maintenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Readiness: Dr. Kelly Brownell and other researchers in the field of obesity believe one of the most predictors of weight loss success is one’s psychological readiness to follow a program. Determining ahead of time which factors might stand in the way of your losing weight gives you a chance to correct them so that you can focus your energy on getting weight healthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Transtheoretical Model of behavior change (Stages of Change): originally used to define changes in addictive behavior, it has been applied to the adoption of positive health behaviors. It has 5 distinct stages in the change process: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance. These stages represent the “readiness” of an individual to make a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Attribution Theory: Psychologist Bernard Weiner found that the difference between achievers and non-achievers doesn’t depend on the number <\/em>of failures or successes a person has, but rather on the conclusions <\/em>one draws about why those successes and failures happened. In general if a person “attributes” failure to a personal defect-like incompetence-and explains success as a stroke of luck, then he is reasoning like a pessimist. An optimistic attitude generates hope and persistence-which, coincidentally, are the ingredients required to make permanent weight-loss changes. Ignoring difficulties doesn’t make them disappear-focusing on solutions does. The positive perspective must take reality into account for it to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I help adults conquer eating issues, calm anxiety, and recover happiness at any age.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At age 28 I woke up to prepare for work like any other day, except that day when I opened my closet I had no clothes that fit, nothing to wear for work. I froze for a minute in fear then decided I needed to do something.\u00a0 I remembered attending weight watcher meetings with my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12795,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,124,123,125,1,145,115],"tags":[171,172,138,146,126],"class_list":["post-12794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","category-health","category-positive-thinking","category-therapy","category-uncategorized","category-weight-loss","category-wellness","tag-food","tag-psychology","tag-weight","tag-weight-loss","tag-wellness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/joshua-coleman-8V4y-XXT3MQ-unsplash-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12796,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12794\/revisions\/12796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eatlovemove.net\/wordpress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
This is just an introduction to the world of healing a food relationship utilizing psychological constructs. One of the most fundamental building blocks of nutritional metabolism is our relationship with food, or our food psychology paradigm \u2013<\/em> the sum total of our innermost thoughts and feelings about what we eat. Our relationship with food is as deep and revealing as any we might ever have in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n