Written by Jamie Stowe | Monday, 21 December 2009 | There is 1 comment
effective in helping the at risk girls to stick with healthier eating habits
Check out the following for some interesting alternative weight loss research! A group of researchers have shown that teenage girls who are in a high risk category for becoming obese received considerable weight loss benefits from educational psychotherapy. The report which was compiled by researchers at the United States National Institutes of Health shows that those girls who took part in ‘interpersonal psychotherapy’ were more likely to prevent weight gain when compared to those girls who undertook normal health education.
The interpersonal psychotherapy treatment involved an examination of specific relationships that the girls had and by identifying the intrinsic social and personal underlying influences which caused them to eat more than they should. The treatment was effective in helping the at risk girls to stick with healthier eating habits and to prevent them from bouts of binge eating.
For this study a small group of 38 girls were randomly assigned to either attend the interpersonal therapy groups or the standard health education groups and their eating habits were monitored over the course the following year. While there were weight loss improvements in both groups of girls the ones who had received the interpersonal psychotherapy did significantly better.
This study which was published in the International Journal of Eating Disorders will add a lot of weight to the argument that weight loss success is all in the mind and could lead to new psychological treatments for men and women rather than the traditional focus on diet, nutrition and exercise.
If you are trying to lose weight one of the best things you can do is examine the reasons why you do overeat and what motivates you to eat unhealthily rather than just trying to stick to a boring eating plan. If you can get motivated and enthusiastic about losing weight the chances of you being successful are much greater.
So look into your brain, you might find the keys to weight loss there!
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dianne said:
thanks for an awesome post. i have had many stuggles with weight loss and losing fat for a long time. I manage to lose up to a dress size in a week by doing just a 12 minutes routine thats just body weight… and still be able to eat my confort foods. I am also able to eat ice cream every day and drink smoothies and eat chocolate. The main difference for me was changing into a diet that allowed me to eat the foods i loved and it worked well for me. i belive that cutting your calories to much can be a bad thing too… and that eating the foods you love is still important not just for your body… but for your sanity too i had stuggled big time before i figuered my body and how to do it correctly… now i dont have to starve or eat “rabbit food” all the time. I made big changes when i realised that a calorie is not always the same and that eating is what controls when and how you lose fat. i eat raw chocolate ever day… and ive lost heaps of weight! even though i hated working out, i found that doing the most bang for your buck exersises like squats and pull ups made the biggest differences. I hated doing crunches and using ab gadgets for weight loss… it can be fun and simple… but may not be easy if you do not know how to do it right. I also believe in doing interval training (short bursts of intensity) rather then doing long steady paced cardio. Lots of research show that it can make you fat. There is a way to lose fat all day long ;) thanks again melt10pounds.blogspot.com/
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