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Know the different stages that an overweight person goes through to reach its recovery

Obesity is a psychosomatic illness with food addictive behaviors, characterized by greed, lawlessness and in some cases, a persecutory guilt. This condition sets a degree of conflict and dependence on certain foods, especially the hydrocarbon.

This is a “compulsive overeating“, which in a first stage appears as an irresistible impulse, no infighting, no blame, at least during the intake. Therefore at this stage there is no awareness of illness.

In a second stage, uncontrollable impulses combined with guilt before, during and after the intake, producing an experience of emptiness and psychic pain. Here begin the familiar excuses obese. There is but little situational awareness of disease.

In case there is an appropriate treatment the patient enters a third stage (abstinent behavior) that involve learning, and help control search. It strives to achieve another kind of relationship with food, obtaining partial successes in this process.

At first the relationship with food can cause you fear and control is exercised from outside. Only in the fourth stage we can speak of “recovery” as it is internalized control and prevent food by choice, not by imposition, which accounts for the creation of new habits.

Proper treatment should aim to replace the dependency object (food), by other more rewarding things, analyzing the root causes of this pathology in the context of a therapeutic situation permitting both learning techniques to develop healthier behaviors, as we are in the field of addictions.

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