What role does psychology play in weight management?

Judi Hollis, DO, discusses the role psychology can play in weight management.

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Hi I'm Dr. Judy Hollis and you're asking what role does Psychology play in weight management.

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Well I was an obese person all of my early life and I became a psychologist to figure out why I ate.

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Knowing those answers really didn't help me stop eating. For the past 40 years, I've been treating over eaters and

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myself and I found that Psychology is absolutely the most important thing. If you think about it every

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programme in our country talks about weight management by controlling your food and your exercise, but we

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have to instead look deeper into the person we are because the person I am today can't live in my former fat body

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and that lady can't live in this body, we do undergo some personality change to lose weight and keep it off

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and Psychology and psychological counselling will help you find out what those factors are.

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Many people think it's about what happened to us in our childhood and what traumas we've overcome, actually I'm

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seeing that it's not really trauma that's causing people to eat and gain weight, it is really the positive hopefulness

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of success if you think about it that's why so many people lose weight and regain it, so we

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need to help people learn how to walk into the sunlight of the spirit, walk into

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positive, wonderful feelings about themselves and about their lives, Psychology is the way to handle that.