Controlling your weight, but fighting it every day!

Are you having to try really hard to control your weight. Perhaps you are constantly anxious, worrying about fat content. If you have an unhealthy relationship with food then perhaps you can identify with some of the problems below

Over exercising to maintain stable weight Extreme dieting Yo Yo dieting constantly Purging, vomiting or laxatives Constantly having to watch what you eat Obsessing about food Calorie counting Only eat low fat food Anxiety and Low self esteem

Are you or the people around you concerned about the amount of time you spend exercising? Does everything else take second place to your exercise regime? Too much exercise is as bad as too little. Especially if you are also eating a distorted diet or eating too little to try and maintain some unrealistic size and weight.

Extreme dieting, cutting out whole food groups or restricting your calorie intake too much can result in long term health problems from brittle hair and nails, disruption to menstrual cycle, fertility problems, joint problems, osteoporosis to name but a few.

Do you worry about the amount of fat in a food or constantly check the amount of calories? A certain amount of fat is necessary in our diets. It has certain fat soluble vitamins but also foods that have fat in them tell us we are full much quicker than foods that do not contain fat. So if you are sticking to a low fat diet then you will have to fight hunger a lot more than someone who eats regular food.

Do you have to control your weight by constantly dieting when you have put on a couple of pounds? Do you lose those couple of pounds then undo all your hard work by bingeing?

Purging, vomiting or using laxatives to control weight is extremely damaging both psychologically and physically. These behaviours are often learned from piers and problems can include rotten teeth from reflux of stomach acid into mouth and mal-absorption of vitamins in  food due to rapid transit of food through gut when using laxatives.

There is professional help available for these problems. The anxiety caused by these symptoms can affect the lives of not only the sufferer but their families too. Call today………