If you find dieting on your own hard why not join a weight loss group? That way you can socialize as well as get encouragement in losing weight!!!
Choosing the Right Weight Loss Group
Remember, Some weight loss groups aim to make money, others work as charities. The former include Weight Watchers and Peer trainer. The latter include, Over -eaters Anonymous, also several groups run by local churches, hospitals, and like-minded individuals. These organizations’ customs and practices differ widely. Some groups are modeled on twelve-step programs, while others are quite informal. Some groups advocate certain prepared foods or special menus, while others train dieters to make healthy choices from restaurant menus and while grocery-shopping and cooking.
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Choose Your Weight Loss Method based on Your Personality Profile
The best way to decide the group for you is based on your personality. If you think you have a genuine addiction and you have a morbid obesity problem then you will need Over -eaters Anonymous or some other twelve step program. Otherwise maybe your problem is just a question of diet. Therefore you could just start calorie counting, journaling what you eat and maybe start a special diet.
Some of the organizations that could help you:
Overeaters Annonymous
This group sees your problem as an addiction. Your compulsive overeating is a progressive, addictive illness, a chronic condition and part of an attempt to alleviate psychological stress
It is a twelve-step program which can be summarized as follows
- In the 1st step of the program, a person admits that (without help) they are powerless over food and that their lives are unmanageable.
- In the 2nd step, a person comes to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could relieve us of our obsession with food and restore us to sanity.
- In the 3rd step, we make the decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
- The 4th step suggests a thorough personal searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselvesand the effects of our actions on ourselves and other people.
- In the 5th step of the program we admit to the God of our understanding, to ourselves, and to another person the exact nature of our wrongs.
- In the 6th and 7th steps people ask God to remove their character defects in a humble manner. They acknowledge old coping mechanisms that no longer work and sculpt new behaviours. They are willing to make an investment of time and energy to change their attitudes and actions—“they clean up their act.”
- In the 8th step of the program, a person makes a list of all persons that they have ever harmedd and becomes willing to make amends to them all.
- In the 9th step of the program, a person makes direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
- In the 10th step of program, a person is encouraged to continue to take a daily personal inventory and when wrong to promptly admit it.
- In the 11th step of the program, it suggests that we take time for daily prayer and meditation
- In the 12th step, from a place of gratitude, a person carries the message of personal transformation and freedom that the program has empowered them to experience, and shares it with others.
To be Continued in Part 2
